I'm impressed.

Moneyquote: "Windows Phone 7.5 is gorgeous, classy, satisfying, fast and coherent. The design is intelligent, clean and uncluttered. Never in a million years would you guess that it came from the same company that cooked up the bloated spaghetti that is Windows and Office."

Kudos, MS. There's some funny moments.

Bwahahahaha.

Things just got interesting.

Same old Microsoft.

They called it "Kin" ?!?!

Hahaha. All you Windows Mobile fucktards that slammed Apple for not
launching with cut and paste, read this and cry. It looks like
Microsoft is not bothering to implement cut and paste period.

Windows Mobile currently is horribly broken. Approaching it with a scorched earth policy is a good thing.

I hope this is true. More competition is always good.

Bye-bye, Windows Mobile.

Moneyquote: "We’re still playing catch-up. When Apple came on to the scene a couple of years ago, it threw away the rulebook and reinvented it. We unfortunately don’t have that luxury. It’s true, Apple caught us all napping. It launched something that was very iconic, new and unseen with a very good user interface."

Moneyquote: "I’m sure Steve Ballmer has the whole situation under control, and everything is proceeding exactly according to Microsoft’s plans to achieve their stated goal from May 2008 for Windows Mobile to account for 40 percent of the global smartphone market by 2012."

Bye bye, Windows Mobile.

Actually, it's pretty piss poor. Apple's iPhone ads clearly demonstrate value by showing the device in use. While this ad shows no screenshots, no action, just a bunch of dopey costumed icons following around some guy. Awful.

It's because they're the largest Windows Mobile vendor. Moneyquote: "As much publicity as HTC's Android phones get from the tech press, they're still a Windows Mobile company at their core, a fact which is becoming more ballast than fuel. That, combined with all the money they're spending on changing that, i.e. marketing their Android push, makes being HTC right now a pricey proposition."

Moneyquote: "The release of Windows Mobile 6.5 has been mostly overlooked, lost amid all the other mobile news this week: the Verizon/Google Android deal, Palm’s major WebOS developer announcements, and Adobe’s Flash developer tools for iPhone OS.

Microsoft’s irrelevance in today’s mobile space is nothing short of a spectacular failure. Worse than the mere fact that Windows Mobile 6.5 is a total turd is that no one is surprised, and no one cares."

Moneyquote: "To put it another way, handset manufacturers have done more in the last two years to improve Windows Mobile than Microsoft has, which borders on pathetic. In the time since Windows Mobile 6.0 came out in February of 2007, Apple has released the iPhone—three times. Palm has created the Pre, with its totally new webOS. Android has come into being, and grown into something wonderful. RIM has created a touch phone and a revamped BlackBerry OS. For these companies, the world has changed. And Microsoft? They eked out some performance enhancements and a new homescreen in 6.1, and executed a gaudy facelift for 6.5. This is what they've done to Windows Mobile."