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Re:With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun ... by storm on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @09:31AM (#1783260)
10 points and climbing for a reply that essentially says, "Bah, it's Microsoft, there must be something wrong with it"? That's really disappointing, HN.

I foresee some serious cognitive dissonance playing out as Microsoft manages to do a whole lot better than hive-mind "HA HA too little too late / M$ sucks" sentiments have been allowing for. And frankly, Microsoft deserves the success they've got coming to them here. Somehow, the teams responsible for WP7 have been able to overcome the bureaucratic, backstabbing inertia that Microsoft is famous for, and they've produced something pretty damned good for a 1.0. Shame that so few people bother to actually examine the platform in any detail before pontificating about it, predicting its doom, etc.

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Re:With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun ... by SnowLprd on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @10:37AM (#1783521)
Windows Phone 7 is... 1.0? While I believe the WP7 team does indeed deserve credit for overcoming all the entanglements endemic to Microsoft's current bureaucratic mess, I think it's a bit silly to call this a 1.0 product. Even if the WP7 software was a complete rewrite, I think you lose the ability to refer to your mobile OS as 1.0 when:

* You've been shipping mobile software for years

* You have "version 7" in the name of your product

Not trying to be pedantic here -- I know what you mean when you refer to this new mobile OS as "1.0". I just think it's more appropriate to refer to, say, the original 2007 iPhone as 1.0 than the WP7 product.

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Re:With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun ... by robryan on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @09:41AM (#1783296)
Just like the side by side search engine tests without branding it would be interesting to test peoples perceptions not knowing it's Microsoft, although it would only work on people outside tech who haven't used either interface.
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Re:With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun ... by daleharvey on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @09:38AM (#1783287)
To be honest it was a pretty vacuous comment, and was mostly about iphone / android than windows mobile.

But I didnt say it sucks, or that there must be something wrong with it, I said I couldnt trust them (with a lot or money) not to suck, and my opinion isnt formed from some hivemend, its formed from the last 10 years of my experience with microsoft products.

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Re:With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun ... by Timothee on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @11:50AM (#1783799)
I didnt say it sucks, or that there must be something wrong with it

Actually you did, almost word for word: "there must be something wrong in there" :)

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