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Originally Posted by p-slim
You're dreaming, if there was going to be another edition they would've announced it. Those reports about 2 seperate os' were false. There is no media edition only 1 windows phone 7
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Where did you read there weren't 2 editions? What I read was a quote from a Microsoft Exec early on at the conference. Granted I can't find the article now, but I do remember that specifically.
That being said, I'm an IT Consultant with almost 10 years of experience with Exchange. For those of you who don't have any real world BUSINESS experience, then your conclusion would seem rational. However, if you also knew how much money Microsoft has poored into Unified Communications for their mobile phones, you would realize just how different the end result may actually be. Either a lot more functionality is going to be integrated before launch, or there will be two phone editions. One for the corporate user and one for the home user.
For those that aren't in the know, the entire Exchange, Sharepoint, Office, and Communication server/application suite is literally built around the Windows mobile phone platform. I see no reason why they would outdate millions of dollars in research and development. Everything they have been working on, and still developing for, the past 5-7 years has been integrating the enterprise environment into the mobile phone world. The whole idea is that you can use your phone as a complete office assistant to manage calendars, email, voicemail, etc.
Too many people look at this from a personal/home based viewpoint. Microsoft is DRIVEN by the business world. If they can't integrate their Exchange/communication product line in with their phone, then they just waisted the last 7 years of development. Why do you think they've been working so hard on remote sync capability. You honestly think they would do all that work just to throw it away?
From the business world, there may be more iPhone, Blackberry, etc., but to TRULY have a unified communication environment, you HAVE to have a Microsoft Windows phone. I personally have sat in classes over the last 2 years where half the class was Lucent communications engineers learning how the Exchange and mobile phone products work in order to integrate their PBX systems and develop unified communication suite software to match.
The "big picture" is a LOT bigger then what the non-business mind can see.