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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Analyst Thinks Windows Mobile is Doomed

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Windows Mobile Is Still Immobile

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| News Analysis. My reaction to today's Microsoft announcements coming out of 
| the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: Too little. Too late. Too bad. 
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/desktop_mobile/windows_mobile_is_still_immobile.html

To paraphrase BillG, "it's good that we have museums to document this stuff."


Recent:

Windows Mobile misses annual shipment target

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| Lees, a veteran Microsoft executive who moved from the Server & Tools unit in
| February, attributed the lower-than-projected Windows Mobile sales to some
| devices coming to market slightly later than previously expected. He declined
| to say which ones.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/144818.asp?source=rss


Why Windows Mobile Is In Trouble

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| Recently it was revealed that the newest version of Microsoft’s mobile
| operating system, Windows Mobile 7.0, would be delayed until as late as 2010.
| The updated version, which the company’s partners had reportedly been hoping
| to have by early 2009, was aimed at giving Microsoft a bigger presence on the
| mobile stage. But delay or no delay, I don’t think it would have been enough.
| With competition from a resurgent BlackBerry platform from Research in
| Motion, Apple’s iPhone and most importantly, the Google Phone platform (I
| will analyze Nokia’s Symbian platform in a separate post at a later date),
| Microsoft’s mobile platform is facing its toughest environment yet.
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| [...]
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| Sometime later this month, the G-1 will go on sale and people (at least those
| in the U.S.) will be able to experience the difference between a Windows
| Mobile- and an Android-based phone for themselves. Of course, some will find
| the shortcomings of the Google Phone — and according to Mossberg, there are
| many — grating. Others, like me, will be suitably impressed. And if they’re
| impressed enough, most handset makers will want to join the party.
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http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2008/10/15/15gigaom-why-windows-mobile-is-in-trouble-24747.html
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