Wm7, And the "Hype"..

Well, nothing crazy really,...

 We just seen the dismal reaction to the ipda or, itpads, something like thats release. And it didn't go over with the expected bang the world thought it would go off, or Apple.
  Now its not a bad device, i guess, and we're not here to talk about the ipit device, but the possible outcome of MS's WM7 release down the road in relation to Apples recent endeavor.
So lets keep it near topic if we can.

 I figured this might be an interesting thing to think about as the next couple weeks wind down towards MS's sneak peak at things to come. And as it gets closer, will things get crazier? and of course if they do, will it work out to MS's Benefit or not. Timing, and delivery are pretty key things here.

 Could it be, Big Steve, (The one i'd let buy me a beer) has a secret police keeping things locked down as tight as Apple has, and is really snowballing us into thinking one thing, so then they come out of left field an deliver the goods of something different then we were led to believe.

Or will it be just kinda, yeah ho-hum past the today screen?

 I kinda am leaning towards the secret police, an Big Steve, has a Ace or three up his sleeve or in his nose perhaps, an is planning to blind side us with something really nice.

I hope i'm not wrong, though, i will use it, whether its plain or a blockbuster as the alternatives, are just not, what floats my boat.

What do you think?


WR

talking about WM 6.5 I'm disappointed that the build the eXpos have is an old one that doesn't have the more finger friendly features in place, I hope that At&t would at least give us and update to 6.5.*

anyway, back to the topic on wm7.

i guess if WM7 doesn't live up to the expectations then it'll have a hard time competing with other platforms for mobile devices, so I think MS is definitely trying very hard to make sure WM7 will be great. I'm not a MS fanboy, but I'm not really fond of apple or google so I'm still hoping that WM7 will fly.

I'm not too sure about the secret police thing... has any company been 100% successful at keeping things locked down?

Well here we have the latest
Rumours

What do you think, Personally, without credibility, which would land someone in jail a long time i'm sure, i don't buy it completly myself.

Even so, if it was the full out truth, would you abandon ship?

I can't see leaving, even if it was full forward thinking, if we could get a update or two to carry us a little more, the backwards compatability issue may be resolved by the world at large hacking community, or MS itself caving to customer demands making it a moot a point eventually.

No Multi-Tasking, Do you buy that??



WR

Here are some of my thoughts on the points made on the PPPCGeeks post you linked to:


I've never used a Zune HD so I couldn't say if I'd like it or not. I guess I could watch some review videos to get an idea, but at this point anything would be better than the stock interface of even wm 6.5. You pretty much have to install 3rd party apps/tweaks to make it really functional.


Personally I think this is total bullshit. I had flash support in 6.1 using that IE version with a Flash player install from adobe. I think it was mobile 7.1 or something like that. There's no reason for not having flash support apple...I mean microsoft XD


Now THIS is total bullshit. The application install through only the marketplace takes away one of the best things about windows mobile. FREEDOM. I love being able to download an app from a site to my pc, save it on the card, and then batch install on the phone. The marketplace is barely usable and the installs take much longer than they do when installing from the storage card since they have to all download first. If I have hard reset my phone because of whatever reason, I don't want to have to go back through the marketplace to get my downloads again.


I don't buy this one bit.


I doubt it very much.


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Hmm...microsoft not supporting backwards compatibility? That's new...
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This really means 2nd quarter 2011 and a carrier release to customers about 9 months after that.


And this means nothing to me.


I think anything would be better than the WMDC and activesync. Then again, I haven't used the zune software so that could very well be worse.


The stock interface better be the best of all interfaces for this to go over well. This goes inline with removing the freedom known to wm. I love SPB Mobile Shell and this would really screw them over if MS won't let it run on WM. Hell windows mobile is the only OS that supports the shell right now. They have sections for iPhone, Symbian, Android, and Blackberry which shows they are working on versions of the shell for those as well. A lot of people would be pissed if MS took away this functionality choice


I could care less since I don't even own an Xbox. Plus...I mean really...As pointed out by penny-arcade, "Was not being able to know your friend's gamerscore when you're at the supermarket a huge problem?"
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/19/



Again...not that big of a deal. I have my social networking apps that work just fine. If I'm really concerned with what someone is doing I'll just call them.