[walterdo]

To everyones point here, this is a multi-faceted problem.

The carriers have the mind set that they own the devices regardless that consumers purchased them and can do what they want with them.

In turn the Carriers (worldwide) put pressure on Microsoft to even use their OS and the OEMS build what the Carriers want because the carriers are their customers.

MS does not sell the WM OS as they do other OS's. so in fact the Carriers and OEMS are their customers. They take feed back from the consumer for features and as stated ship fully functional. It is the carriers that crippl;e features of the devices, because they have not figured out how to charge for it.

IN fact MS is getting complaints and flack from the carriers about the new Mobile update features from the carriers and in fact want the update customizable to point to the respective carrier. So again they want to control what is on the device.

As mentioned earlier thier money is in selling a new device and new contract.

To Microsoft stance on this, they have to adhere to the EULA agreement that is in place jointly with Carriers and OEM's. So in fact MS only did this out of pressure from their customers(OEM's and Carriers) Carriers mostly.

If you really think about it Microsoft does not care what hardware their software is on, they make their money on the sale of the software not hardware.