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Microsoft to exit mobile OS market in 2 years (posted in 2009)? |
masseur
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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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doministry
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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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jj03
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i hope they do pull out. It'll prove they can't dominate every market they enter...which is good for everybody. |
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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.
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Ouch! Unlucky WM users  i hope its true. 
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BIG-Stan
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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 |
masseur
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here's an earlier article from msmobiles I just remembered
Microsoft stores opening but Microsoft is ashamed of Windows Mobile!
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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.
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doministry
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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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razec
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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.
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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.
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carkitter
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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.
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occupied
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it's too late to quit now. ms should've done it in 1990's when the first touchscreen handheld os hit the market.. |
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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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microsoft does not have any shortage of money to quit.. Especially since they have just become serious with windows phone.
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