[Windows Phone 7 General] Bulldog:
I think many of you guys missing the point why Microsoft needs to start from nil and many futures that were available in WM 5 and 6 is not available immediately.

The WM5-6 were never made for our current time and the demand brings along with it. Don’t forget that WM has been on the market since earl 2000

The weakest point of WM was the OS code. Many developers have spent huge amount time writing code for little thing and still many things couldn’t be done right.

In one of the developer forums I read that one application made for WM take about 900 hours writing code and same application made for Iphone take about 200 hours, at the end the Iphone application were faster and visually better. Well I do agree that MS has missed completely the R&D for new Mobile OS because they have focused too much on desktops and Servers in which were more Money to make. They continue darning the old OS and just implement things that could support their main business ..Enterprise. They never focused on standard user therefore they have never seen Iphone as a threat! It was the RIM with their Blackberry devices which took more and more business away from MS.

Until not for long they still wanted to continue on that line but seen the sales number and forecast of Smartphones they have decided to make that change. What they are doing is right now nothing else then what apple done. They take the Zune platform ( apple has done with IPod) and adding the other Important and will make money futures. What are those will make money futures: Xbox , social Network, Downloadable Media, Email with Native office 2010 and Exchange server integrations etc. etc. yes currently many things that were in WM 5 and WM6 included not implement because of time!! And again Many None technical user don’t care for those. They wanted to play the same game on their mobile as they playing on their game console, They don’t wanted to carry a MP3 player and a phone. They wanted use their mobile to communicate with friends in Facebook’s, twitters etc. etc.

Furthermore MS given huge attention to the developers, providing tools and support to get them on board! For developers it is also becoming easier to write code for WP7

Currently the OS may not look appealing and not complete but it is still some 6-7 months to go for releasing the first version. Even then we will not see everything on what we have hopped. Iphone and Android have also not had everything on their first version. However I can assure you that Windows phone will have better future then Android with Xbox ,Zune strong social network integration. One thing Sure MS might not have the best OS and best Ideas but MS has huge resources and long lasting ambition to stay on the market.

Following the steps they are taking and not only on WP7 but also in MS office 2010, exchange server 2010; Xbox, Zunes one can understand that MS has a big plan.

Androids current strong point is also its weakness ( open source) it is already starting to see the results of the fragmentations. Some of the devices running V2.1 but others are still on 1.6 , continuing in such way not only the Device manufacturer but Also the NAME ANDROID will lose reputations.