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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft 'Innovates' by Copying Again, Playing Catch-up

____/ Mark Kent on Monday 07 January 2008 18:47 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Windows Mobile 7 hopes to mimic iPhone; will fail just like Vista?
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Windows Mobile, the operating platform installed on most smartphones today,
>>| is going to get revitalized in its 7th version. However, a set of insider
>>| documents reveals that Microsoft is trying to invigorate Windows Mobile
>>| with many of the same features and innovation that the iPhone now
>>| possesses. If Microsoft goes this route, Windows Mobile 7 will follow in
>>| its big brother Vista?s footsteps to certain failure.
>> `----
>> 
>>
http://mobileium.blogspot.com/2008/01/windows-mobile-7-hopes-to-mimic-iphone.html
>> 
>> "The danger is that Microsoft is using strategic monopolistic pricing in the
>> education market, with the government?s assistance, to turn our state
>> university systems into private workforce training programs for Microsoft."
>> 
>>                                                 --Nathan Newman
>> 
> 
> Hahah!  Wince is going to be as bloated as Vista... amazing!
 
Based on reviews I've been reading, Windows Mobile is a disaster and it's
hardly surprising that it only has a market share of about 5% after so many
years out there. That division loses a lot of money.

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