[Hafrust]

I'm not surprised either. WM has become the new Palm. They have really not done much at all to improve their OS over the last few years. If you peel off the masks that Samsung and HTC have put on their newer WM phones, you still have the old, clunky, non-finger friendly interface. It's going to take a huge improvement on Microsoft's part to get WM where it is sought after by the masses. What surprises me is the amount of people here that think that WM is a hugely popular OS. Your everyday average customer doesn't want to put as much time and effort into their phone as we do. People tend to not want to work that hard at making their phone work efficiently. I seriously doubt the Pre will be similar to the instinct. Palm has a long history in the smartphone/pda world. The problem they ran into is similar to what MS is doing now. It took them forever to overhaul their OS. With the amount of time and resources they have put into their new OS, I'm pretty confident it will be successful.