Mandatory Bing update. Frustration!

[steel187]

I was never a big fan of the Bing update on windows mobile. The old version lets you look for dozens of movies playing at multiple theaters, while the new one lets you look for a whopping 5, then proceeds to take you to some lame MSN website. The old bing app is user-friendly, the new one isn't.

So I chose to use the old Bing app up until now, since Microsoft will no longer let me use it, saying "We've made some improvements to Bing. To continue using the Bing app, you must update now."

This statement pretty much summarizes why Microsoft as a corporation is inevitably doomed to fail. They force their consumer to upgrade things they're comfortable using & replace it with garbage (ie XP to Vista; WM 6.5 to 7; super easy & user-friendly original Bing app to lame and inexplicably bad new Bing app).

Let me just say that their forced upgrades are great opportunities to jump ship on a sinking company. I currently have a WM 6.5 & XP laptop but my next purchases will be an Android & a Mac Book Pro.

WinMo7 has been in the works for 4+ years, the only reason I'd stay are apps from the old days like UpToDate, Garmin Mobile XT, Bing, etc. None of these will be backwards-compatible, I guarantee you UpToDate & Garmin Mobile XT will never see it to WM7 (along with Pandora, Skype & endless others), and 1-by-1 Microsoft is going out of their way to make apps like Bing on 6.5 unusable.

Is there a work around so I can still use the old app? The new ones pretty much useless to me. HTC should no longer do business with Microsoft.