death of wm

**boredandtattooed** · #1 (**permalink**) 05-15-2010, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by saucratiz

microsoft has been trying to deliver wm7 for the las almost 3 years

3 years?? so before winmo 6 or 6.1 they were trying to come out with 7?? i had a mogul 3 yrs ago, they definietly werent trying then

testacon · #2 (**permalink**) 05-17-2010, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by boredandtattooed

3 years?? so before winmo 6 or 6.1 they were trying to come out with 7?? i had a mogul 3 yrs ago, they definietly werent trying then

He did same approximately...But WM6 came out on February 12, 2007. I'm sure that development started close to that time for the successor, even if it was just on paper. Microsoft is well known for working on new OS's before it releases the existing one. WP7 was originally supposed to be out in 2009, how long do you think it takes to create an OS? They had to be working on something for at least a few years, even if they increased the release date to 2010 so IMO ~3 years is a good "guessing" date on when development first started. It's not our fault that the decided mid track to start again from the ground up, essentially neutering the OS...