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Originally Posted by gTen
You do know that WP7 and winmo are different OS right? WP7 is aimed at the iphone market with a locked down OS and general consumer...Winmo is an enterprise OS which focuses on giving the use a PC in their pocket...M$ stated themselves that they have no interest in the winmo way of things in the new OS...
We don't mind if M$ released a 2nd OS aimed at consumers and kept winmo alive...but by what they did they pretty much said "winmo is dead" by calling it windows phone 7....winmo did not NEED to die M$ was just afraid of releasing a new OS and ppl claiming it to be a 1st version..so they decided to overlap the branch to make ppl think its 7th version and a mature OS...which it is not....
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Yes I do know its a whole new OS. Thats what makes it great. What part of the Enterprise market is continuing to support WinMo in any way for the future? Very little sadly. Their will always be a bit of WinMo 6.5 (and whatever upgrades Microsoft feels the need to make for the few enterprises that are hevily used to WinMo) but for the most part. WP7 can be built in 2 ways. The multimedia way where they are going at its release, and a more business oriented version they plan to release a little while later once its polished and supported. Makes sense to me. There is no reason for a platform this powerful and diverse to go to waste in the business world. Of course Microsoft isn't stupid to destroy a business tool such as this, they just knew it was time to build it on a new code platform that isn't rooted in the early 2000's. Don't believe me? Doesn't bother me, Just check out the market in a year and all this nonsense talk about it being a dead end, doomed, etc will all be in the past until another competitor comes out to try and enter this market full swing.
A small example is WebOS. Great little OS, has good core values and support, but it was too small of a Dev base, the hardware was underwhelming (Though they also have their hardware on all 3 big networks in the US unlike iP still), and the overall push was too small to really make a grand entrance. Have we seen the last of them? Hell no. Now that HP has Palm's back, they will no doubt be reentering the market with a much better offering in the future. Microsoft already has the resources and backbone to support Windows Phone 7, just like Google had Android, and well Apple has iPhone. This also is mostly the US market, it will be interesting to see what else happens over the pond.