[Windows Phone 7 General] IM0001:
You guys really are going off on such far tangents without seeing the underlying reason with the WP7 refresh. WM6.X was based on such old tech it was a joke. The tech could never be polished and refined enough to make it competitive today. It had to support way too many devices and specific hardware (Look at the Windows Update in your phone we have had since WM5.0 oh wait, we never used it and its removed now). Their was no standardization and therefor, no way to get a NEW OS to roll out and run near as good as it needs to to compete with todays devices. WP7 fixes that by starting with a clean slate. Sure they are "missing" a few key features from the start but do you not think that within the 1000 devs and huge minds at Microsoft that their is not a damn good reason for this? Maybe it is because their really is no extreme need for such features if their can be a similar replacement (copy and paste is in the device in a different form. Maybe it works? Wouldn't that be amazing? :eek: ) Multitasking is in the device and maybe, Just maybe, they didn't forget that people get calls when they are navigating sometimes and may want to go back to their navigation once finished without hesitation, or maybe they want to listen to music in the background (no need for background movies since you can't see it, why would you be watching it?). Maybe the lack of a file structure is no big freaking deal. (Maybe they will allow FTP downloads in the background, but with less than 1% of the market really downloading and managing their files directly on the phone, why would that need to be a priority? Even I do it but at such a rare occasion that it is just not a priority. More than likely I can just remote to my comp back home and do what a big comp need to do from there. (And you can bet logmein will finally have a working good remote app for WP7))

Yes I am a power user and do all sorts of wacky crazy power user stuff with my 6.5 based TP2. But in the end I am really looking forward to WP7 to just WORK. No more tweaking, hacking, fixing, and flashing to just get a phone that has all the features working out of the box in a fluid manner while also still allowing you some freedom of customization and choice of apps. You may argue "Well just get an iPhone noob." but you must have just misread what I just said. Freedom of apps. Microsoft is ok with other standards such as Flash, and the freedom the BIG devs have may allow them to get around a few of the first glance limitations of the device. Microsoft may limit some apps due to Quality and other things such as porn (The free Google market is an absolute Joke and yes I have played with it since the TP2 can run Android. Hmm).

Overall Microsoft knows it needs to come into this market swinging and not just random shots, but aimed, focused, shots to get market share back. Since the WM6.5 market is down to less than 10%. That is less incentive to focus on giving us "Power Users" every feature we can get our hands on, and more incentive to get features that just WORK out of the box and make the device function as a whole before introducing things that may get users into trouble on the device that need not be. Of course XDA Devs will come through and hack in abilities that may be missing at first, and who knows, maybe we will get them officially at a later date as has already been stated. But I think Microsoft really has this one nailed down and just need to get things polished up, apps loaded, and released on some damn nice new handsets with all the hardware we can ask for working like it was intended to.