Posted on 10/01/2010 9:54:18 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Microsoft Corp. will formally unveil a lineup of smartphones using the revamped version of its mobile operating system on Oct. 11, and AT&T Inc. will begin offering them four weeks later, according to people familiar with the launch plans.
The launch—centered in New York with satellite events elsewhere—is crucial for Microsoft, which has been battered by Apple Inc.'s iPhone and a wave of flashier consumer friendly devices using Google Inc.'s Android mobile software.
"This is critical to Microsoft's overall business," said Avi Greengart, who follows consumer electronic devices for research firm Current Analysis. "They are being badly outflanked right now by their competitors."
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Microsoft is too late —they will fail.
I’m sure the howling about AT&T being the exclusive carrier of WinMo phones will reach the same level as it is for AT&T being the exclusive carrier for the iPhone.
This market is anything but settled. Actually this market is unlikely to ever be settled, because all of the carriers encourage users to buy new phones every couple of years even if every man woman and child in the country has one there will still be more to sell tomorrow as contracts expire.
That can’t be it - no ‘ctrl’, ‘alt’, or ‘delete’ keys.
I wouldn’t get one only because this seems to come across as Microsoft being desperate. Whenever they’re late with something, the product is half-baked and a uselessly redundant copy of something superior that’s already out there. Microsoft is late to market with everything. Hark back to like 1996 and read Bill Gates’ “The Road Ahead”. There’s no mention of the Internet. Lots of mention about controlling appliances and turning lights on and off. Then read the revised version about 18 months later where he says he totally missed the rise of the Internet. Everything from MSN to Bing, to it’s so-called net appliances is late and an inferior copy of what’s already out there. MSN was an inferior Yahoo at the time with an attempt to get market share of the dial-up market which was booming at the time. Bing is stupid.
I expect these phones will show nothing different, new or innovative.
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