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http://gizmodo.com/5471805/windows-phone-7-series-everything-is-different-now
"It's astounding that until this moment, three years after the
iPhone, the biggest software company in the world basically didn't
compete in mobile. Windows Phone 7 Series is more than the Microsoft smartphone we've been waiting for. Everything's different now.
Today, at Mobile World Congress
in Barcelona, Microsoft is publicly previewing Windows Phone 7 for the
first time. The brand new, totally fresh operating system will appear
in phones this year, but not until the holidays. All of the major
wireless carriers and every likely hardware maker are backing it, and
they'd be stupid not to. It's awesome. Further details are forthcoming,
but here is what you need to know:
The name—Windows Phone 7 Series—is a mouthful, and unfortunately, the epitome of Microsoft's worst naming instincts, belying the simple fact that it's the most groundbreaking phone since the iPhone.
It's the phone Microsoft should've made three years ago. In the same
way that the Windows 7 desktop OS was nearly everything people hoped it
would be, Windows Phone 7 is almost everything anyone could've dreamed
of in a phone, let alone a Microsoft phone. It changes everything. Why?
Now that Microsoft has filled in its gaping chasm of suck with a
meaningful phone effort, the three most significant companies in
desktop computing—Apple, Google and Microsoft—now stand to occupy the
same positions in mobile. Phones are officially computers that happen
to fit in your pocket.
Windows Phone 7 is also something completely new for Microsoft: A
total break from the past. Windows Mobile isn't just dead, the body's
been dumped, buried and paved over by a rainbow brick road."
Sounds pretty interesting. Click the link for the full review. They are trying to change the ways Mobile Operating Systems work, and it is pretty cool what may come from this. Plus XBOX! How cool is that? This looks like an OS the could blow IPhone OS out of the water.
"It's astounding that until this moment, three years after the
iPhone, the biggest software company in the world basically didn't
compete in mobile. Windows Phone 7 Series is more than the Microsoft smartphone we've been waiting for. Everything's different now.
Today, at Mobile World Congress
in Barcelona, Microsoft is publicly previewing Windows Phone 7 for the
first time. The brand new, totally fresh operating system will appear
in phones this year, but not until the holidays. All of the major
wireless carriers and every likely hardware maker are backing it, and
they'd be stupid not to. It's awesome. Further details are forthcoming,
but here is what you need to know:
The name—Windows Phone 7 Series—is a mouthful, and unfortunately, the epitome of Microsoft's worst naming instincts, belying the simple fact that it's the most groundbreaking phone since the iPhone.
It's the phone Microsoft should've made three years ago. In the same
way that the Windows 7 desktop OS was nearly everything people hoped it
would be, Windows Phone 7 is almost everything anyone could've dreamed
of in a phone, let alone a Microsoft phone. It changes everything. Why?
Now that Microsoft has filled in its gaping chasm of suck with a
meaningful phone effort, the three most significant companies in
desktop computing—Apple, Google and Microsoft—now stand to occupy the
same positions in mobile. Phones are officially computers that happen
to fit in your pocket.
Windows Phone 7 is also something completely new for Microsoft: A
total break from the past. Windows Mobile isn't just dead, the body's
been dumped, buried and paved over by a rainbow brick road."
Sounds pretty interesting. Click the link for the full review. They are trying to change the ways Mobile Operating Systems work, and it is pretty cool what may come from this. Plus XBOX! How cool is that? This looks like an OS the could blow IPhone OS out of the water.
