[potatoofdoom]

It would be insane of microsoft to provide anything less than something at least slightly better than android, web os, and the iphone. A lot of people already hate windows mobile devices, to fail the few that genuinely enjoy it now would be suicide for microsoft.

I imagine that if WM7 does fail, that microsoft might pull away from mobile phones, (under the windows name at least) for a little while. Remember when SEGA used to make video game consoles? They failed so many times that they just stopped making them. Then again, microsoft doesn't really give up on its continued failures... So maybe I'm completely wrong and WM7 will suck, WM7.1 will make it useable, WM7.5 will make it slightly more useable, and WM8 will ruin it again.