Windows Phone - Dead man walking

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http://blogs.computerworld.com/windows-phone/23904/windows-phone-stuck-3-world-market-share-time-call-android

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@Lurch

From

"Tim Richardson  bluvg
Well. Apple makes lots of money on those macs. Microsoft and no one else makes money from low end phones. That is a huge difference. Microsoft traditionally makes money by selling OS licences; now it is forced to give them away. That's why people are a bit doubtful. It's just very hard to see how Microsoft will make money."

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@Darrin

I never said they are going out of business anytime soon. They do have a habit of killing off products that bleed money from the company though like Zune, Kin Phone, MSN TV,  Caligari Truespace, Courier, MS Money, Encarta, Etc. Sometimes they get things right, TriCaster works fine running on Windows 7 for example.

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@Darrin

And just like MS Money you can go on using WP for years to come even if MS kills it off. Here is a more complete list of dead MS products.

http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_-_Dead_Divisions_or_Products

Even if WP had the perfect interface I would still not use it because I don't want a company that is so customer hostile and unfriendly and has been convicted in court of illegal activity. The list of atrocities MS has committed against fellow developers and customers is so long if it was printed out it would stretch to Jupiter and back. No thanks I don't want a company like that having access to my mobile phone and personal data, I'll pass thanx.

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@Darrin

I think you would be hard pressed to find any company that has done as much damage to a industry as MS unless you go all the way back to Standard Oil and what they did to the industry they were in. BP also did some serious damage to that same industry a few years back off the coast of Florida, it was pretty horrible.