“The expensive advertising program (rumored to be half a billion dollars) which will be launched soon, and the efforts of various hardware companies and cell phone carriers rallied to support Vista 7 are likely to be a doomed and completely wasted effort.,” Mills writes. “This will certainly end Microsoft’s presence in the mobile market, which includes both smart phones and slate computers.”
MacDailyNews Take: Or force them to buy RIM.
Mills writes, “Microsoft has failed to preform. Zune, Ken [sic], Vista and now Mobile Vista 7 have all failed to offer anything really new or compelling to excite consumers or investors in Microsoft products or stock. The issue is not as much what the new platform amounts to, but the poor timing and lack of compelling new features.”
“Had this new platform been launched shortly after iPhone took off, it would be different,” Mills writes. “Had this mobile OS been launched about the same time as Google’s Android OS, Vista 7 might have found a market. It is just too late for something that is not really compelling. Windows Mobile 6.5 is expected to remain the Microsoft platform for business smart phones while the new Vista 7 will be the consumer smartphone platform. Neither platform is compelling.”
Full article here.
Oh sure Chrissy… take all the fun out of it. ;-p
At least Microsoft has a decent notification system unlike my iPhone. I really hope Apple does an overhaul for the next release of iOS.
At least Microsoft has a decent notification system unlike my iPhone. I really hope Apple does an overhaul for the next release of iOS.
I’m as much of a Apple/Mac/iOS freak as anyone, but a second-string guy from Macsimum News who wrote this BEFORE the official release?
You CAN’T be serious, MDN!
WinMob 7 has got to be MUCH worse than even this dweeb can imagine.
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I’m as much of a Apple/Mac/iOS freak as anyone, but a second-string guy from Macsimum News who wrote this BEFORE the official release?
You CAN’T be serious, MDN!
WinMob 7 has got to be MUCH worse than even this dweeb can imagine.
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@ChrissyOne. Absolutely!
@ChrissyOne. Absolutely!
@Paul Thurrot
Uh, Paul, there are three T’s in your name.
@Paul Thurrot
Uh, Paul, there are three T’s in your name.
So MDN is suggesting that Microsoft could be circling the RIM in more ways than one …
So MDN is suggesting that Microsoft could be circling the RIM in more ways than one …
I know how you could fail to perform… but how do you fail to “preform”?!
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“The expensive advertising program (rumored to be half a billion dollars) which will be launched soon…”
They could have plunked down $10 Mil for an Apple iAd and had a more compelling marketing campaign! Oh well, if MS has the money to burn!…
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I know how you could fail to perform… but how do you fail to “preform”?!
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“The expensive advertising program (rumored to be half a billion dollars) which will be launched soon…”
They could have plunked down $10 Mil for an Apple iAd and had a more compelling marketing campaign! Oh well, if MS has the money to burn!…
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M$ has lotsof “relationships” in it’s cartel and will doubtlessly sell some phones in the short term.
Second, some people might want a cheap smart phone and many who aren’t that wrapped up in this stuff will take it as good enough.
Long term, given the time M$ has had and the resources available to it- I don’t see anything special.
M$ has lotsof “relationships” in it’s cartel and will doubtlessly sell some phones in the short term.
Second, some people might want a cheap smart phone and many who aren’t that wrapped up in this stuff will take it as good enough.
Long term, given the time M$ has had and the resources available to it- I don’t see anything special.
@ Jim – TIV
I feel it’s important we remain superior.
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@ Jim – TIV
I feel it’s important we remain superior.
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Proves that the market moves too fast today, Apple is generating product and upgrades at a pace Microsoft cannot keep up with. Microsofts time tested technique of copying and improving a product at a low cost and bundling it with something else doesn’t work today.
It wouldn’t have worked for Google either, if Eric T. Mole had not had such a head start to copy Apple prior to the introduction of the iPhone.
It must really grate on S. Jobs what Eric T. Mole did.
Proves that the market moves too fast today, Apple is generating product and upgrades at a pace Microsoft cannot keep up with. Microsofts time tested technique of copying and improving a product at a low cost and bundling it with something else doesn’t work today.
It wouldn’t have worked for Google either, if Eric T. Mole had not had such a head start to copy Apple prior to the introduction of the iPhone.
It must really grate on S. Jobs what Eric T. Mole did.
Maybe “Ken” wasn’t a typo. The next version of WP7 will be code-named “Barbie”. After a reboot sound will be a female voice saying, “programming is hard!”
Maybe “Ken” wasn’t a typo. The next version of WP7 will be code-named “Barbie”. After a reboot sound will be a female voice saying, “programming is hard!”
Not RIM – Microsoft should buy Nokia
Microsoft could buy more market share with Nokia and this deal would even offer more synergy, because Nokia is weak in software development and without a soon success of WP7 Microsoft will loose his hardware partners.
Could the Nokia deal change anything to the better. No, because first products would be more than a year away and this is far too late – but Microsoft will sooner run out of money.
Not RIM – Microsoft should buy Nokia
Microsoft could buy more market share with Nokia and this deal would even offer more synergy, because Nokia is weak in software development and without a soon success of WP7 Microsoft will loose his hardware partners.
Could the Nokia deal change anything to the better. No, because first products would be more than a year away and this is far too late – but Microsoft will sooner run out of money.
Supposedly today’s the day when Ballmer and AT&T’s De La Vega take the stage in NYC to announce Microsoft’s entry into the mobile space with a new OS and phones from Samsung, HTC, and LG.
Oddly absent is Verizon and Sprint and China (CDMA).
Microsoft, what could you possibly offer that comes anywhere close to what Andy Rubin’s got cooking with Android? Because, you’re gonna’ have to go through them to get to iOS and you just don’t have the legs for it.
Supposedly today’s the day when Ballmer and AT&T’s De La Vega take the stage in NYC to announce Microsoft’s entry into the mobile space with a new OS and phones from Samsung, HTC, and LG.
Oddly absent is Verizon and Sprint and China (CDMA).
Microsoft, what could you possibly offer that comes anywhere close to what Andy Rubin’s got cooking with Android? Because, you’re gonna’ have to go through them to get to iOS and you just don’t have the legs for it.