Posted by masseur
ms mobiles article
Number one business magazine on the planet predicts: in 2 years Microsoft will give up on Windows Mobile/Phone altogether! No other magazine is more renowned than Business Week - when it comes to business coverage... and it saddens us to read that even they predict that future for Microsoft's mobile operating system is bleak:
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Posted by doministry
Hopefully not.
If yes it will make me really angry.
I've invested in UIQ and it's gone.
Now WM...
However I wouldn't be so sure. Windows 7 may be good.....
It's also very hard for me to believe they will forget about raising income from
mobile devices.
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Posted by jj03
i hope they do pull out. It'll prove they can't dominate every market they enter...which is good for everybody.
Posted by doministry
On 2009-08-11 11:39:00, jj03 wrote:
i hope they do pull out. It'll prove they can't dominate every market they enter...which is good for everybody.
Such a bulls..t.
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Ouch! Unlucky WM users
i hope its true. 
Posted by BIG-Stan
Come on guys. Of course it wont happen.
It was posted by a dumbass who runs a wm site but has no clue whatsoever. MS would be really stupid to quit
Posted by masseur
here's an earlier article from msmobiles I just remembered
Microsoft stores opening but Microsoft is ashamed of Windows Mobile!
Posted by mediar
I don't like the Windows Mobile or Windows Phone, so I don't care. WM is slower than Android so I'd prefer Android phone.
Posted by doministry
On 2009-08-11 18:22:32, mediar wrote:
I don't like the Windows Mobile or Windows Phone, so I don't care. WM is slower than Android so I'd prefer Android phone.
No way.
GSM Arena:
"The UI is generally fast but at times it would become frustratingly slow."
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Posted by razec
I doubt it will happen, especially once WM6.5/7 comes. but if it dies i hope microsoft could develop a new one to replace it with much better resource handling and offers the same level of developer friendly environment. Even palm OS has died long ago but was revived with the new WebOS.
Posted by anonymuser
Dropping it completely would be too much of a loss of face I think, unless their losses by that point demanded a more positive "retreat to advance" kind of move.. what I do suspect is that WM7 will end up being so different to 6.x that it may as well be a whole different OS, and there'll be very little compatibility between the two. It's rumoured that 6.5 will just carry on for a while at least as low-rent cousin to 7, but it'll obviously be 7 (and handsets based on it) that get the major iPhone-bothering marketing push.
I still think MS would do better to develop their own phones as Apple are doing, and let HTC and the rest get on with Android. An updated Windows Mobile that was actually properly matched with custom hardware for the job could still be a really great phone - it's the constant compromise with one OS being stretched across multiple platforms that kills it.
Posted by carkitter
Thats a very interesting idea - a Microsft Phone, although comparisons with the Zune would be unflattering to say the least. Surely such a phone would be targeted towards a Palm or RIM business user rather than a general user?
Then again, replace the Zune with a multimedia based touchscreen phone utilising Windows Media Player, Office 2010 Mobile and a version of Bing which searches the phone and brings all your social networking together, it may just work...
Such a device if integrated with cloud services like Mesh would be great for students too.
Posted by occupied
it's too late to quit now. ms should've done it in 1990's when the first touchscreen handheld os hit the market..
Posted by mode
On 2009-08-25 09:21:33, carkitter wrote:
Thats a very interesting idea - a Microsft Phone...
And they can call it Microfone. I can already imagine the tagline - 'The Microfone...a microfone unlike any other' lol. Maybe they should throw a mic function in as a real feature
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Posted by djin
microsoft does not have any shortage of money to quit.. Especially since they have just become serious with windows phone.
Posted by razec
On 2009-09-04 05:21:09, djin wrote:
microsoft does not have any shortage of money to quit.. Especially since they have just become serious with windows phone.
I Agree, certain reasons for a copany to quit a certain business is when they can no longer afford to fund the development of their product. Besides, Its too early to say they will quit within 2 years especially when they are cooking for something pretty interesting, let's wait until they released both 6.5 and 7 and if those two fail to attract their targets then they lost the
Posted by occupied
the biz week article referred to by the article quoted in this thread suggested uncertainty, possiblity.
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i guess it's not proper to reason using such an argument, especially in journalistic
Posted by XPHCTOC
sorry guys but Microsoft is allready planing Windows mobile 8
http://www.engadgetmobile.com[....]-have-been-out-like-yesterday/
that's what Ballmer means when he says "this will not happen again."
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Posted by jact
its depending how works windows 7 mobile
Posted by DarkKrypt
kyn 1 and 2 anyone?
theyll be around for awhile
Posted by phonecrzy
Windows mobile is terrible anyway, though i very much doubt there going to "scrap it" as there are many phones with it. there is a massive application store and shit and many business rely on it so if they do then microsoft will be unreliable by most (all) business who rely on windows mobile. so if they scrap it there losing there reliability to customers because all there phones will be less secure and there will be no updates (do they have updates? I have a android im not sure
but i bet using a windows pc you get updates every second so I'm not surprised if its the same with mobile)
I hope they do scrap it, i hope they also scrap windows and zune. But i hope they dont scrap xbox 360 though
i love my 360. but 360 is the onlyl good thing they have ever made.
Posted by rkalloo
for some odd reason....i actually liked windows mobile 6
maybe its because im a p990-p1i fan and love stylus
Posted by carkitter
On 2010-05-31 09:40:44, DarkKrypt wrote:
kyn 1 and 2 anyone?
theyll be around for awhile
Kin 1 & 2 are already gone.
Microsoft changed the spec halfway though, delayed it's release and Verizon got p'ed off and refused to do a cut-price deal on data. Kin was aimed at the teen market and without a cheap data plan had no hope of survival.
Lets hope Windows Phone 7 is fairly close to the mark when released in the next few months. I can't see
being very keen to go through the whole Xperia X10 (falling behind on updates) debarcle again.
Posted by AkuKL
On 2009-08-10 15:43:48, masseur wrote:
ms mobiles article
Number one business magazine on the planet predicts: in 2 years Microsoft will give up on Windows Mobile/Phone altogether! No other magazine is more renowned than Business Week - when it comes to business coverage... and it saddens us to read that even they predict that future for Microsoft's mobile operating system is bleak:
After 2 years, MS still in this business. BTW, I like Android better.
Posted by laffen
Three years and Microsoft is still with us. Stronger than ever
Posted by goldenface
Ha ha. Here's to many more too. Obviously the author of that article couldn't predict the sun rising in the east.
Posted by Bonovox
And yes here it still is and my fave mobile OS
its only going to get better with WP8
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Posted by Del
Yep, I'm quite looking forward to wp8
Posted by goldenface
I know, I know it's a rumours thread but the new hardware looks really good!