Thread: Engadget had a sneek peek at "Photon"
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Old 12-08-2005, 06:56 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by surur
There are still supporters of alternate platforms that contend that MS is planning to drop WM and replace it with cut-down Vista. At least this news will give them pause for thought.
Nice post, surur.

Good info, and I think you hit the head on the nail with your comment about Vista. It's exactly what I was thinking when I read about Photon because I was in the camp expecting a piece of Vista to replace WM. But I guess this is an intermediate step and it's too early. For two reasons. 1) Too much work for Microsoft that fast 2) The mobile platforms are not going to be ready. I think MS plans to have essentially a desktop platform in your hand and that's what they are waiting for. Not for about 4-6 years will it be commonplace I think. So that's when they need to have a mobile version of Vista ready to go instead of WM.
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