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Re: What do you think of Windows Phone 7?

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Originally Posted by gTen View Post
Our complaint is not with the OS, microsoft can release whatever OS they want..but why did they have to name in WM7 meaning next version of windows mobile? That is our complaint, they SHOULD have just gave that OS a new name like palm did and dual track continuing windows mobile and this OS under a different brand. But putting this OS as 7 does not look good.

How would you feel if windows 8 comes out and your OS is one used on a 20$ barby computer? That is what makes most people bitter. The brand "Windows" in general should be associated with a PC, not a dumbphone.

And some people claim there will be media edition and business edition but I find that hard to believe as that would make a lot of confusion, more then people would like.
It's similar to what Apple did with OS9 and OSX. Clearly they wanted to release a whole new mobile vision which couldn't be accomplished with WM so they started with the same base (CE) and created a whole new modern UI. So it really is still Windows just a different UI like Windows 3.1 vs 7.

I don't get what you're saying if Windows 8 ran on a barbie computer. I'd be glad that the install base is expanding to include more people.

There isn't going to be two versions, just this one new one. Enterprise customers are going to be targeted with 6.5.x. Though it's entirely possible that they're going to release enhanced policies through exchange that will allow corporate customers to disable the media parts of the phone.
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