From the busting out laughing department - Win Phone Team having a funeral for iPhone

[Trev]

It must really suck to work at a technology company that encourages this sort of thing. Plus, they have to live and work in the Pacific Northwest, where the air is clean and everything is green. I much prefer being chained to a cubicle sixteen hours a day in a windowless building that used to be a Price Club (Costco). (It's not usually sixteen hours a day, but I really do work in a cube in a windowless warehouse.)

[Trev]

M$ opened themselves up to being made fun of by having a funeral for products that have been a lot more successful then their own. Having transexuals in pink dresses march to celebrate the release of a phone is so over the top! No offense to trannes in pink dresses of course. M$ has much bigger problems then Win Phone 7 failing. MS stock has been in the toilet for over a decade.

Again, not really seeing the downside (as a technology worker) to a company that encourages employees to celebrate their accomplishments. Especially one that's hip on cross-dressing. (How do you know they're TS and not TG, TV, or just having fun? Or it could have been a muscular woman. It's sort of hard to measure shoulder-chest-waist-hip ratios while someone is dancing. And if she was TS, then she is a woman. Just sayin'.)

[Trev]

@Pyromania

I can't speak to Windows 7 Mobile specifically, but in general, Microsoft doesn't censor developers. I love my iPhone for what it is (and hate it for what it isn't, i.e. a reliable phone), but Apple's control over software distribution is scary stuff.

Software distribution in general is about to get even scarier thanks to Vernor v. Autodesk. Say goodbye to used software. Say goodbye to libraries. Hell, say goodbye to retail, period. If we take the ruling to its ultimate conclusion, all software developers will have to license software directly to end users, as wholesalers and retailers won't be allowed to transfer their copies. That's stupid, of course, so new software licenses will have to include specific language allowing wholesale and commercial resale, but not individual resale. I'm really not sure how that's going to work in practice.

[Trev]

@Franko

My wife thinks I need one for "emergencies." So does the office. Otherwise, I wouldn't have one.