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Windows 7's Mangled Mobile Opportunity
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| Windows 7 might as well be Vista when it
| comes to interacting with mobile devices.
| Microsoft's total mangling of this mobile
| opportunity reveals a number of major flaws
| that the company must address if it's going
| to continue to dominate the OS world.
|
| [...]
|
| One of Microsoft's fatal flaws is that it
| thinks in products, not in ecosystems. It
| builds a lot of attractive pieces, but it
| doesn't snap together the puzzle. For
| instance: what's up with the Danger/Sidekick
| thing, anyway? They bought Danger way back
| in February, 2008. Rather than folding that
| expertise into Windows Mobile, they shunted
| the team off into a mysterious "Premium
| Mobile Experiences" group that has so far
| produced nothing except a horrifying server
| crash. The latest we've heard is that
| something might happen next year. In any
| case, PMX seems to be competing withârather
| than enhancingâthe work of the Windows
| Mobile group.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2354561,00.asp
Ballmer: Sidekick outage 'not good'
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/101909-microsoft-balmer-sidekick.html
Linux gains at Microsoft's expense.
Recent:
Microsoft smartphone OS is a hard sell
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| Amid all the talk last week of a "groundbreaking"
| partnership between Verizon Wireless and Google,
| word of Microsoft launching its revamped operating
| system, Windows Mobile 6.5, and Verizon introducing
| one of the first smartphones to run it, the HTC
| Imagio, largely fell on deaf ears.
|
| Not that I'm surprised.
|
| The Verizon-Google partnership is a big deal. It not
| only ensures Google's touch-screen Android operating
| system will make it onto cell phones nationwide, it
| finally will give consumers a worthy alternative to
| the Apple iPhone and AT&T.
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http://www.indystar.com/article/20091012/BUSINESS10/910120328/1110/BUSINESS10/Microsoft+smartphone+OS+is+a+hard+sell
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