Re: Is Windows Mobile On Its Way Out?
What people don't understand about Microsoft is the amount of politics and undermining that goes on behind closed doors. They have morale issues as well as big egos who corrupt development within their brands. Microsoft develops products like Windows Mobile with the idea of changing and controlling the entire market place. Innovation is not possible because product managers destroy ideas at the highest levels. It's an unintended consequence that few people ever hear about at Microsoft.
Project Natal is what got Robbie Bach and J Allard fired. Of course the media heard they both retired. It's very difficult to innovate when billionaires are running the show.
WP7 is a spin off of the Zune software. That where they use words like "product synergy" and tying products together like the failed Zune with it's OLED screen that has terrible resolution but the ability to record 720p video that you cannot see on a 422x244 (resolution may be off a little) resolution.
I will say that I am quite happy with my TP2 after installing the cleanup cab. It's sad that volunteer programmers here at PPC Geeks can make a device loaded with bloatware and an underpowered CPU run quite well on 6.5
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