“Microsoft workers celebrated the release to manufacturing of Windows Phone 7 last week by parading through their Redmond campus with iPhone and BlackBerry hearses,” Tom Warren reports for Neowin.
“Employees dressed up in fancy dress and also modified cars to include Windows Phone branding,” Warren reports. “Aside from the crazy outfits the workers made fake hearses for giant BlackBerry and iPhone devices. Employees cheekily claimed they had buried the competition with Windows Phone 7.”
Warren reports, “Windows Phone 7 is expected to be available in late October for those in Europe and November for those in the US.”
Full article, with more and larger photos, here.
And then they did this:
MacDailyNews Take: Unmitigated hubris from the perennially outclassed and hopelessly mismanaged. Par for the course.
Okay, TGIF! Hoist! May Steve Ballmer remain Microsoft CEO for as long as it takes!
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Well Microsoft said it slit must be true
arseholes
This is going to make for some excellent fuel for the fire six months from now!
also, very ugly people there. Even the token female probably has a cock
So apparently Microsoft employees are forbidden from using the Internet, televisions, or competing devices. Combine that with heads stuck in dark places and you get these kinds of public exhibits.
If it is the iPhone’s funeral, why is the Windows logo black? Surely not out of respect for Apple, when it should be the occasion for “dancing with a red dress on your grave” by Redmond? It looks more like the Windows desktop color just before it shuts down. They cannot even get making fun right.
That’s about as much class as I would expect from them…
I literally burst out laughing reading the headline. Seriously?
Hope they can back it up. Waiting for the first devices.
Wow such big budgets theses days in Redmond the recession must be hitting them hard, this looks like a primary school fancy dress part with mommy and daddy mocking up the uniforms over night, and the intellectual impact is about as telling.
Maybe they’ll bury it next to the kin
This is a job for the OMG cat http://m.youtube.com/index?client=mv-google&xl=xl_blazer&desktop;_uri=/&gl=MX#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=C_S5cXbXe-4
Microsoft is just the most irritating company ever!!! ARRGGHH
They look pathetic…
I recall when Ford was first being threatened by Toyota they held a beer-bust in their employee parking lot and had baseball bats on hand to “beat-up” the Toyota (piniata) placed there. Lotta freakin good that did!
I don’t know what is more “un-cool” the people in the funeral, the actual Windows Phone 7 or the frigging name.. I think I will opt for all 3.
With all the hast and zeal to get windows 7 mobile out the door-they grabbed the wrong phone! The idiots grabbed the iPhone that they used to bring windows mobile from the grave!
They forgot the grab the Windows Phone 7 they had before it went to master. I know how they needed to get that Phone 7 crocus out the door before it smelled any worst. But, gawd!
Be care Microsoft, that may be your last true iPhone on campus and what will you use to copy?!
Oh, and I forgot, employee Toyota owners had to park waaaay away as punishment – lotta good that did!
Millions in marketing and this? Just as much goes into R&D I bet.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
Is it pathetic or retarded? You decide ..
The iPhone is not doing so well:
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-mobile-market-share-2010-9
Android is kicking arse.
At least Apple has class when they bury the competition. They don’t act childish like this.
Talk about setting themselves up for more embarrassment. And it’s a shame they are wasting time and money on something so silly. What are they trying to accomplish? Increasing company morale?
For a 4-day week, it was a long one. I needed that laugh to end the week.
@ theloniousMac
It’s important to realize that is a _forecast_, not the actual situation. Apple has time over the next 3 years to continue their growth, while the Android market gets more and more fragmented.
And even so, market share does not equal success or customer satisfaction. That’s an important fact to remember when looking at numbers. Even if that is the situation in 2014, hold up your hands if you think iPhone users will be happier with their purchases like Mac users are today when buying a computer?
How sadly delusional Microsoft is. Only difference in new millennium is that this time no one is surprised.
A better strategy for Ford when Toyota was beginning to beat their ass would have been to invite all of the Ford employee Toyota owners to dinner for a frank discussion. Nooo – lets have a funeral instead! Please Mr. Ballmer – STAY
Once again MS is counting its triumphs before its failures have hatched. Really sad to see that kind of development money pissed away when it would buy so much beer.
I’m sure in their pathetic little world this would be considered cool…Douches!
@coolfactor
Looking at the 2010 portion alone, Android sales are exceeding iPhone sales worldwide at this point. I think that’s agreed upon by most market watchers.
If the iPhone is still an AT&T only device in 2011, 2012, it will be in serious decline.
There so sure of themselves arent they? Hmmm a Microsoft phone.. Dont think so!
@ theloniousMac
Also remember the iPhone is only one phone – How many does Android have? – I’d say that is pretty freaking good that Apple can do this with one phone model.
And is an Android phone really a smart phone?
Hmmm, and Foxcon is producing 137,000 iPhones a day?
A hearse?
iPhones are riding a white horse.
I’m confused, Hey! Microsft! That doesn’t look anything like a Kin!!!
@ coolfactor: theloniousMac’s chart shows that Android has already surpassed both Apple and RIM in worldwide market share. And that’s something I think I would have read about were it actually true. So I take that chart to be a major lie.
The comments underneath the article are precious! Read as the “MicroSerfs” go on about the the glory of MicroSoft and how MS should just buy Apple etc…. Simply precious!
How insensitive! I am going to burn my copy of MS for Dummies.
Rather embarrassing. And they took the time off from work to do THIS?
Like everything else MS does:
Derivitive Dreck..
@Thelonius: That graph is just a made-up thing, isn’t it? Admit it. Looks like something I’d do, with my sales figures, when I dream of owning a Bentley by next Autumn. Can’t even afford my chauffeur yet. Let alone the actual car. I know we can all dream, but I really doubt the iPhone is going downwards any time soon. But dream on if you choose.
We should all hold our own… “Windows Phone 7 Launch Party!”
Zune Tang – you are formally invited to mine. Please bring a dish to share.
Cheers!
Poor wanabies!
They have to do this show because they know it will never happen on reality.
How pathetic.
Shit happens, man®
So Windows Phone 7 (Phone 7) is going to bury the competition, when Microsoft is trying to sell Phone 7 to OEMs, which can have the superior Android for free to better compete against the iOS, which is the best mobile OS in the world. Phone 7’s business model of trying to sell an inferior OS to OEMs, when the much superior Android can be had for free, isn’t eve viable. This wasn’t a funeral; it was the terminally ill Windows Mobile whistling past the grave yard on its way to the death house.
OMG guys! click on the fricken link for this article! They did a rendition of MICHAEL JACKSON’S “THRILLER” too! LOL! I’m speechless! This is too much lol! What tards
How can one really pay attention to this bunch. They can’t even make the right choices for a ritual. Look at the picture, see it, thats right, Bagpipes.
MSFT showing how out of touch they are with the real world. And yes MDN, hubris is the right word for MS. And childish. And tasteless.
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “Next of Kin”.
These were the employees who didn’t get the correction memo: all references to iPhone and Windows7 were accidentally reversed. Management wanted to hold a wake for W7, as they expect it to be stillborn on the release date.
Where’s the big fat doofus with the Zune tattoo?
He’d fit right in.
and in other news….Urkel held an “I’m sexier than Denzel Washington” press conference.
Wow. I guess you’d better celebrate now before Windows Phone 7 gets shipped on actual devices and the sales numbers start to come in…
Microsoft’s true competition for Windows Phone 7 is not iPhone or Blackberry, it’s Android. Windows Phone 7 and Android are going after the same “customers” – hardware makers who are too lazy to develop their own smart phone OS. iPhone customers who keep buying iPhones instead of one of the numerous existing Android phones are not going to go out and buy a Windows Phone 7 phone. So Microsoft needs to aim for current and potential Android users. And I hope Windows Phone 7 is seen as a viable alternative to Android by the hardware makers. Because the more ‘fragmentation” there is out there in the REST of the smart phone space, the better it is for Apple
But I feel bad for the “Microserfs.” Some manager probably thought this was a good idea and made them participate and embarrass themselves, with covert iPhones buried deep in their pockets.
I like the strategy… I like it vewy vewwy much… ehehheehhheehh
I hope WP7 does well, I just don’t think it will. It will be interesting though to see how they leverage their PC influence to bring back all those vendors from the Android field. Any one in the WP7/Android model should be worried including Android. Don’t forget how controlling MS can be over their vendors when they want to. While Android and WP7 fight over vendors, Apple is going to continue to Kill them through innovation and unification of the new world of iDevices. Take for instance their new technology of AirPlay and FaceTime…
Uhh yeah. They compare iPhones to Android devices. Not iOS devices. If you factor in how many iPod Touches, and iPads, the growth rate is not as flattering for Android…
Windows Phone 7 will be great.
iOs – a closed system micromanaged by Steve Jobs – is doomed, soon only to be appreciated by his most loyal sycophants.
It will be a niche operating system for MacFreaks. Have fun!
Thank you, Steve Ballmer. Without you, Apple might not be in the leading position they are in!
Whistling past the graveyard!
You think Microsoft is a little late in the phone biz?
All these Googloids trolls get paid my their master to come here and post stupid googloid propaganda.
How pathetic!
Similarly important news from another part of town…
Someone’s cat got caught on the tree for a couple of hours.
@ IPhone user
> You think Microsoft is a little late in the phone biz?
Late? Are you kidding? They were among the first in the “smart phone” business. They just squandered their position away to almost nothing, so it seems like they are now just entering the “biz.”
@diskgeinder
Yep. She definitely looks like she has one.
Wow, get a life!
And just what one feature does this phone have that the iPhone and Adroid don’t have?
Bagpipes?!! I can’t thing of anything that summarizes Windows Mobile more accurately! Arrgh! – The painful squealing, a bunch of gangly pipes poking out in all directions, and held together by a bag full of hot air.
It’s enow to make me cry!
Windows Phone 7 will only eat Android sales.
diskgrinder. SOOOOO funny!
Good for them! I’m hoping MS has improved their OS, as the other attempts have left me totally inoperable for many hours at my place of employment. I still have no iPhone, and still use Verizon, but will switch if Verizon ever gets the iPhone. Too many issues with Sprint and At and T where I live to sign with them. Some competition is never bad, and some humor never hurt anyone. BTW, Mac user since 1984 here. Still have Word and Excel 1.0 floppies as well though.
And at this stage, as far we actually know, Windows Phone 7 is still vapourware.
Maybe its spec. sheet will be named “Best CES Smartphone of 2011”!
Microsoft Kin = dead
On to more MS incompetence.
Noticed looking through the pictures on the site that they even copy Apple’s iPhone OS 2.0 roadmap sign.
BTW don’t 10% of MS employees have iPhones anyway? Roughly 10,000.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703455804575057651922457356.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories
I wouldn’t be surprised if those pictures were taken with an iPhone
You have got to be Fscking. Kidding. Me.
I’m so glad I work at home. >.<
Just in case anyone is wondering… Yes. They really are like this.
pretty pathetic really… they do this after banning their employees from having Apple products on campus.
This is like a car accident… I can’t stop staring.
How incredibly lame and embarrassing.
@ Steve516
Everyone says that and it’s completely untrue. Actually, you see more iPhones and white earbuds than anything else.
Apple is doomed!! Darth Vader! (1:12)
Well at least they are admitting they have to beat Apple now. It’s kind of flattering if you think about it.
I’m sure this will be in the next presentation Apple does. Just like when Steve’s obituary came out. tongue and cheek.
I’m just going to get a good laugh when this thing just fails miserably. They claim it’s the most tested mobile platform Microsoft has shipped. It hasn’t even come out yet.
HTC, Samsung, and Motorola are going to be having a Menage Trois with Android and Windows 7.
This just can’t end well, can it?
@ Mark
I’ll say. These were the same people that went to pep assemblies in high school.
I hope Jacko comes back to haunt all of em.
Or, instead of Kin One AND Two, maybe they will bury it next to the Courier, a vaporware device that never saw production, which will probably be said of this crap!
And is that the new dance MS employees are performing in their stores? What is that number up to? Four?!
What I see here is Microsoft putting together a party and a pep rally for the people they had been working very hard. These people, in their own world, are essentially developers, working in the trenches, many of whom are very gifted, dedicated and creative. They also likely genuinely believe that their joint effort was really, really good this time around. Since Microsoft is an entirely vertical organisation, individual teams are silos and nobody knows what others are doing. You don’t really get to see the entire picture, and aren’t allowed to, so teams overlap, do redundant work, often competing against each other (sometimes even without knowing). Ballmer has been working them to death over the last few months, and they sincerely believe the result must be spectacular (lots of talent + lots of work = excellent product; if it were only that simple…).
You can’t blame MS grunts from wanting to celebrate the completion of their very hard labour. You also have to let them do this while they still believe the result of all that great work will be success. There is plenty of time for a sad realisation that all that work was for NOTHING…
Warren reports, “Windows Phone 7 is expected to be available in late October for those in Europe and November for those in the US.”
europe first? ……………….. not a good sign
So was that Ballmer’s idea of a “team building exercise”? Or is it that working at M$ sucks the life out you until you become a zombie?
(no comment)
Seriously, how pathetic. Reflective of their CEO?
This is just sad. I mean new levels of embarrassment. Worse than the cheerleaders at the MS store opening… handing out Zunes to the 3 people who showed up early to wait “in line.”
I don’t blame the MS drones. They’re probably really nice people who like the Pacific NW and are coding along.
Occasionally, I work with people from MS and 1/3 (out of the 20 I regularly work with) openly use iPhones.
C1,
That’s what I was going to ask – where were you in the video?
Glad that SmallAndFlaccid lets you work from home. I bet that campus is cringe-inducing.
I remember when Apple had their own mock funeral. It was for OS9. They know that to be the best, you have to better yourself – not try and beat other people.
“The report of my illness grew out of his illness. The report of my death was exaggeration.” Mark Twain
WTF?! Is this for real?!!!
I think she does have a cock
they forgot to grab their crotch.
@ Cubert
SHUT UP.
Yes, it kind of is. (sigh). But my Contrator Hovel isn’t even there anymore, it’s down the road a few miles. I haven’t been there in months.
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One can afford to engage in childish bits of theatricality if one’s company is a market leader. Microsoft has bungled its mobile ambitions in a huge way with the whole WIndows Mobile/Kin/Phone 7 situation and thus must resort to stunts like this to give the appearance of exuding confidence, but, of course, it comes across as somewhat desperate. Phone 7 will get some users. Will it prove compelling enough to stop the iOS and Android juggernauts? I think not. Tardiness is going to prove fatal here. Android’s traction with manufacturers and users has come at the expense of Phone 7, not iOS. A clunky UI doesn’t help. Microsoft thought it would dominate mobile as it did the desktop OS market. It will be lucky to get 10% market share and even that figure is probably overly optimistic.
There was Dart Vader or was it Steve Ballmer?? Shiny head…
Whenever I think that Microsoft cannot be any more stupider, they surprise me with a jackass stunt like this.
Thing is, I don’t hate them. In fact, I want to have them around, coz, if they go away, hackers and criminals have no other choice than to finally attack the Macs. And they can co-exist with Apple. Jobs purposefully stepped away from their playground, while letting them play in his.
It’s a pity that they have a pea-brained monkey-boy of a CEO with serious self-esteem issues who doesn’t recognized that it would be the most prudent choice for him to partner up with Apple.
A little foreshadowing with the black windows…..DOA…..Duh!
Windows phones , LOL !!!!!!!!!
Anyone remember how windows version of the Palm Treo was supposed
To be the Dream Combination !!!!
Turned out to be a Major Flop !!!!!!!
This is an insult to the Special Olympics. I expect an open letter drafted by Fester, in public apology. That was embarrassing to watch.
Please Oh Please MDN put this in the iCal….
I’d love to see this again in 6 months! Please!!!!
-Pi
I went to VSLive 2010 there a few weeks back and I can honestly say that they are as out of touch with consumers as they are embarrassing to their own cause.
hahahahahahahahahhaahahahaha… ha ha…. hah… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
That’s literally one of the sadest things I’ve ever seen in my entire life. The levels of delusion required for them to put on that little show there… It’s just…
Becoming a Microsoft employee really is like joining a cult, isn’t it? Except most cults probably have a better grip on reality.
Speaking of which, I decided to correct a slight error I found on one of the pictures in the article. Now it’s a lot more accurate:
Well, at least the poor bastards had the sense to wear masks.
There was a time – like in the 80’s – when I admired Microsoft. They seemed so hip back then. That was a long, long time ago… It’s kind of sad to see what Microsoft has become – just a shadow of itself and riding on past glories of the 80’s and the early-90’s.
I watched the video. So that’s what you look like after being strapped to a contract and a Windoze 7 phone!
Well, let’s put it this way: The prediction by M¢ (used to be M$, but the company’s market cap has shrunk dramatically) workers that the Windows 7 phone will bury the iPhone is just about as bad or worse than their ‘dancing.’ I wonder if M¢ borgs are required to attend some sort of Balmer Dancing Class??
Haha. Wow, 3 pages of comments! 😀
Haven’t followed the MS Win7Phone in detail, but haven’t seen anything really compelling from reading the tech-blogs.
I can see how the MS engineers want something memorable about the project they spent a lot of time on… I hope for their sake this isn’t the high point.
MS PR department seems to like these “ooh so edgy-hip-cool going-viral” type of stunts. Pretty pathetic, really. If the product has quality, it’ll stand on its own.
Apple’s products are usually met with initial skepticism by the press. “Anyone who believes the iPad is magical is an idiot!” But see how the iPod/iPhone/iPad/Mac products are doing now. Jobs has a pretty strong “reality distortion field” but his hype is much closer to the truth/vision than the PR drivel MS/Palm/Dell/etc. put out.
product quality >> fake hip
MacSE87
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Zune Tang is already promised to come to my party. Don’t do this to me again. You know how important this one is for me. You got him for the Kin launch, and now it’s my turn.
You can come to, I guess. Bring some beers. I plan to play these videos a lot too. It will be a real hoot.
Lame dorks stuck in their frat past!
Microsoft .. sick copycats.
Hmmm, Microsoft is like dancing corpses… I think i get that
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MDN, there is a mistake in the article: it’s actually called:
WINDOWS PHONE ’07
MDNWord: wrong…
So, did Balmer show up as the Young Frankenstein’s monster?
I agree with Huffter, this is a dance of the living dead.
I guess you have to have a sense of humor working for Microsoft or you’d just go mad.
I thought I heard Ballmer’s primate screams and “Woooohoo’s” in the video.
MS finally comes out with a usable os and ruins the brand name by calling their phone “Windows Phone 7”?
Really?
What’s the name for their next version?
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 SP1?
Could it be that Bill Gates was as important to MS as Jobs is to Apple?
Oh, come on, MDN, lighten up. Windows Phone 7 is gonna go down in flames — you’ll be able to quote this for years to rub MS’s face in it. No need to be the kid whose buttons are always so easily pushed.
Meanwhile the video was pretty funny — they should have had Ballmer dressed as Michael Jackson leading them. Now THAT I’d have paid to see.
Always wondered where Baghdad Bob ended up. Seems it was in Redmond…
Hey Mommy! Look!
It’s The Walking Dead!
Reconnect with this blog that MDN poster “Switched” gave us a long time ago, it was in the MDN link from this article:
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/
The July 6th entry is esp. interesting about employees quotes on the Kin.
I have to bookmark this blog, it’s entertaining.
Very interesting insider quote from that blog link:
“Similarly Windows Phone 7 has two years of development under his [Andy’s] watch. Based on his past performance, 99% chance this is also going to be a total catastrophe. It further doesn’t help that much of the Windows Phone 7 leadership team was kicked out of Windows when they screwed up Vista.”
‘JakeB’ sez: “they should have had Ballmer dressed as Michael Jackson leading them.”
Actually, during the video I kept hearing Monkey Boy ‘YOWOOO’ sounds emanating from the corpses. Then if you watch near the end of the Zombie Crawl you’ll see his apparition, or clone thereof, staggering toward the camera.
Don’t tell me that wasn’t deliberate. Ooo. Very naughty.
That exemplifies Microsoft to me. This “fun” event appears to be over analyzed and highly marketed to me. Like they bounced a bunch of ideas around a research group trying to come up with the best viral campaign for WP7.
Childish.
Besides begging employees to write apps for their phone I also found:
“Microsoft week in review: Installment one of iPhone-to-WP7 app-porting tutorial”
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-week-in-review-installment-one-of-iphone-to-wp7-app-porting-tutorial-and-more/7355?tag=mantle_skin;content
“Jesse Liberty has stated a series of tutorials for iPhone developers that focus on the minimum you need to know to add Windows Phone 7 development to your skill set.”
Why bother? All that work only to be Zuned and Kined into oblivion.
Fsck me that is pathetic. However, after seeing Micro$oft’s SongSmith commercial for the first time the other day, maybe I was expecting this.
If anyone hasn’t seen the SongSmith Commercial;
Microsoft was already known as a total thing of the past… But nowadays, M$ really gets too deep down into ridiculous behaviours…
Someone send Balmer a crate of champaign!
Keep him at the top and they will always be 10 years behind Apple And 5 years behind everyone else.
Programmers dressed in costumes and dancing.
What has been seen cannot be unseen……….
@Jamie
Thank you so much for that link! It’s great fun to watch! – Is it real?!
Windows team, on developing the phone 7: “We made the decision to focus on things we will do really, really well. For those that we didn’t, we feel that we’re better off waiting until we can do them really, really well”
Look who grew a brain cell big enough to follow Apple’s footsteps, 4 years late.
Ok now I’ve read on wikipedia, Songsmith is real. I really thought it must be a fake, because of the line: “Microsoft, hmm, so it must be easy to use!”
Looking forward to Balmers explanation for the Windows Phone ’07 failure. This time, they cannot say it was just to try out, because they made all that noise before the launch…
Probably taken with an iPhone. No, wait, the video quality sucks. Probably taken with a Windows Mobile phone.
The Darth Vader “dancer” was most appropriate. The title of the event should have been “Welcome to the Dark Side.”
F@#%! Horrible dancers, painful to see this video. they danced like their leaders gates and Ballmer.
This is what they’re spending theyre time doing instead of making “competing” products? No wonder everything they make doesnt work right.
@Lemon,
Yes, scary, isn’t it.
At least the dancing monkey was in the video with an orange prop. You think Steve Ballmer saw this?
Sad. Very sad. Did you all notice that the X Microsoft guy now the CEO at Nokia isn’t using this new turd from Microsoft. He is going Droid. When the rats leave the ship it is because they know it is going down.
And they say Apple is nothing more than a marketing gig. Hell, at least Apple pairs their marketing with SHIPPING PRODUCTS.
You all have this event all wrong. MS is trying to cheer up the employees that worked very hard on the Win phone, since they know that they will all be crying from shame soon after it goes to market.
@MICROSOFT FTW!!
That was cute, but the picture you started with is interesting from another standpoint.
It really says something when MS can’t get a participating employee to use their vehicle and has to rent a vehicle to put their banner on.
I donno, I think the dancing is kinda cute and all in good fun.
(sent from my iPhone 4)
I think it’s cool. Maybe WP7 will be good. More competition for Google, and that’s a good thing.
Steve held a memorial service for Classic.
Even in death (real, wishful, or otherwise), Microsoft attempts to copy Apple.
I hope MS does well with Win 7. Competition is a good thing for everyone, but this attitude is just crazy. It’s like they are way too hard to seem cool or hip without being anywhere close to it. Meanwhile, companies that ARE the above (Google Android team and the Apple iPhone team) don’t feel the need to pull stunts like this…
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There are several things I like about Microsoft… but this is so beneath them. It’s one thing to believe that you have a superior product and you demonstrate that by showing how and why it is better. But this clown-show is pathetic. I’m at a loss to express my disappointment.
May Ballmer be CEO for as long as it takes.
@Jamie
That MS link is PRICELESS! Thanks, what a hoot! That one video sums up all of Microsoft in one swoop.
Andriod is winning right now because apple hasn’t had the chance to unlock the iphone for all carriers in some of the more lucrative markets – mainly the US. People are buying droids only because they make good “fake iphones” while one waits for the real thing to get off of AT&T.
Microsoft’s only hope of ever selling a Windows Phone 7 device is that every other competitor is not only dead but has never lived so nobody has ever seen what a decent phone is. Then Microsoft could force a few stupid people to use some of their shit devices until the others develop anything. Then of course Microsoft will die immediately as they have in the current reality.
This is pathetic, they have to do the overused Thriller theme. This was cool when some folks first though about it for there wedding and it was at least original. But here, it just representative of Microsoft lack of originality and how there corporate culture can’t even come up with even the smallest original idea.
Microsoft could make a theme park out of the introduction of Windows Phone 7 and it will still flop. The reason is that it is yet one more competing firm futilely attempting to emulate Apple. But with there own “twist”. Simply pathetic.
Um it takes over two hundred different android devises to keep up with only one iPhone so you may want to spin some more and what arrogance from ms did apple hold a funnel for kin oh wait apple has more class not trash!!!
I puked once already, I decided to watch that video again. I puked some more. Gosh their so pathetic.
The Empire Strikes Back!
Live from Jurassic Park One er…Redmond HQ Campus.
They think they are going to “bury” Blackberry AND iPhone with their ZunieTunes Phone?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
When it comes to “smart” phones, Microsoft is already DOA.
BRING BACK THE MAC vs PC GUYS COMMERCIALS NOW!
Michael Jackson, may he rest in peace, must be rolling over in his grave…
STOP IT!
Watch the video & you will see Steve Ballmer walk by in the parade ( Darth Vadar costume ) !
I really would like to program for the upcoming mobile os and I was wondering if someone could tell me what programming language would I need to learn and as well as any good source/tutorial for that language.
http://xtremenowarnings.com/xtremeno-review-does-xtreme-no-supplement-really-work
First: theloniousMac…. You know that only the first part of that graph (the section that shows iPhone market share climbing right along with Android) is actual and the rest is speculation right?
Second: Although this was a stupid display, microsoft supports the largest group of developers in the world. And eventhough I’m convinced that they will screw this up, if they can actually make a reasonable path for porting Windows code to Windows Phone 7 there is every reason to believe we will see a very active development cycle.
In 2007 Apple stripped down OS X to it’s bare minimum and added a solid touch interface. By 2008 Apple opened that OS for developers and inched it closer to OS X. 2009 and 2010 saw the hardware and OS again push forward to the point that the lines started to blur between the abilities of desktop OS and portable OS. Microsoft may have just waited till there was less stripping away to do and released once near parity between mobile and desktop could be achieved.
Again, I think MS is fooling themselves trying to re-enter this late in the game but I also see the possibilities and this game is far from over. (well except for Blackberry, I think they really are finished).
These people are on crack. I have not heard one positive developer review of Windows Phone 7.
Still, gotta applaud their enthusiasm, however misplaced it might be.
See if this was an apple event the video would have been in 720p. LOL
Wouldn’t it be funny if it was filmed on a iphone?
Not the first time Apple’s product, strategies or management is counted for dead :
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/death_knell/
TMO counts 54 entries in its death knells roster and most of them happened when Apple was in difficult times yet here they are alive and kicking (ass)
People never learn.
This is so pathetic! I’m going to burn my HTC Touch with Windows mobile 6.5 os!
Microsoft sucks in my opinion. I never thought they could sink so low to bury an iPhone.
I got an iPhone 3GS, MacBook Pro and a iPod Nano.
I hate Microsoft!