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Originally Posted by mores
What does that mean? Not supporting ancient software is a bad thing?
That's exactly what Apple did when they launched Os X, which is, in my humble opinion, part of what helped them rise from wherever they were buried to where they are now. Sometimes you have to just draw the line, make a clean break and start fresh. If it's as kick-ass as they say they will definately sell a sh*tload of devices, which will then make it interesting for developers to program for it / port their old software.
What I have seen of windows mobile 7 looks awesome and really did capture the spirit of what made the iPhone interface so revolutionary. It's not the animations, it's the entire feel of the device. Something that all those swish swoosh boing front-ends by HTC have not been able to transmit.
But as cool as windows mobile 7 may be, I will stick with the iPhone OS platform for my mobile devices. Unless Microsoft will make it as easy for me to sync with my macs. Then I might reconsider. Because I find the wm7 interface extremely cool and sleek.
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Please, PLEASE do not call it "Windows Mobile 7". It is not Windows Mobile.
Neither in name nor spirit! It is Windows
Phone 7.
Anyway... well if you like the iPhone OS, then you would probably like Windows Phone 7. That's the whole point. Microsoft took this route so they could steal away some of Apple's thunder. Personally I dislike iPhone OS, and see Phone 7 as striping away everything that made Microsoft's mobile offering interesting and unique.
The bigger problem is that Windows Phone 7 will not be backwards compatible in any way. At least the early versions of OS X included "Classic", so Mac users could run their existing applications until the new OS had enough support to stand on its own. And consider that out of all the handheld operating systems, Windows Mobile has the best ebook format support. And just the best format support in general.