[kabuk1]

The more I read, the more I want to cry over the impending death of my favorite OS. I hate you, Microsoft. WP7 looks like a kid's toy! If I wanted my phone to have an Instinct-like UI, I'd have gotten a damn Instinct. 7 looks like a flashy overlay that you'd find on a dumbphone. I know they wanna win over the drooling masses with eye candy, but what about us geeks? The people who use their phones for things other than listening to top 40 & Twittering? This is a HUGE step back for WM. I do not know what MS is thinking with this monstrosity & it truly hurts my heart to see them raping WinMo like this. Did they not see what happened with Palm? "Wow, look how WebOS has taken over the market, and look how happy long-time Palm users are that they can't run their old apps anymore! We SO need to get in on that!" /sarcasm. They are crucifying themselves with this move.

Windows Mobile has a HUGE geek following, and MS is going to lose a lot of customers if they abandon us to cater to the Facebook crowd. They'll be alienating a crap-ton of long time users, and I for one don't appreciate it. I NEVER thought I'd say this- but if MS is really gonna give the big F-U to us geeks, or if they don't offer options to those of us who care more about functionality than cute icons & Myspace, well... then Android or even the iPhone(shudder) might just be an option for me. Never thought I'd seek comfort in the arms of an enemy, but if the rumors turn out to be true, then that might just happen.

I've spent a lot of money of WM apps over the years, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna give them up for cloud storage & 'tiles'. To put it in perspective for those of you who think I'm overreacting- How would you feel if the OS you've used for years on your computer was suddenly completely rewritten & now you could only do one thing at a time, had far less options, and none of your favorite programs worked with it anymore? What if you had to find alternatives to every program you used to use every day? And what if they did it just to cater to DUMB PEOPLE who couldn't figure out how to use the old OS? You'd be PISSED. You'd feel betrayed by the company. That's how I feel about WM7.

I hate it when companies fix things that aren't broken. It happens every time I find something I really like. Yes, WM needed updating, but it didn't need to be completely redone into a whole new OS. Yeah they might eliminate some crashes, but they've also gotten rid of everything that makes WinMo great. WTF. But I guess appealing to teenagers, soccer moms, and tech-tards is more important than keeping existing customers happy & making an actual good, robust product.

/rant. Sorry, sometimes it just helps to bitch.