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Originally Posted by JMKosmo
Is it sad I am considering a Microsoft 7 phone when I hate the company and everything they stand for? I need to take a pill and go to bed. This whole fiasco is making me mentally ill!
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To Microsoft's credit, I've been very impressed so far with the Windows 7 O.S. I intentionally held out upgrading (as many XP users have) after hearing all of the Vista horror stories. I was always happy with XP, but this is a much slicker and intuitive interface and runs like a dream. I do believe they got it right this time and I suspect they are going to make a BIG push into the smartphone arena with WinMo 7 devices.
Before I got my current Blackberry 8830 I had an U.T. Starcom XV67000 on Verizon that ran Windows Mobile 5. It was buggy as heck and a battery hog, but it wasn't a horrible experience. They were in the mobile O.S. biz as purely a defensive play back then, but I think Steve Ballmer has finally righted the ship and you're going to see Microsoft begin to flex its muscle in this arena. It's become too big a category for them to ignore and simply amble along as they have and they know it.
From all the beta testing I've heard done on WinMo 7, it's supposed to be every bit as slick and solid as its new desktop counterpart is. With all the resources MS has at it's disposal you'd be foolish to ever count them out of anything. Look at how they changed the gaming industry with X-box. Who'da thunk they'd ever be able to come out with a gaming system that could rival Sony, Nintendo and the now defunct Sega? But they did and set a new standard along the way.