[HD7 General] AmgAdly:
How can we move forward by continuing what we were used to do with WM6.5 on WP7 & HD7

I have just purchased HD7 and was expecting to move easily from WM6.5 on my previous diamond to WP7.

One of my reasons why I am buing a windows phone device is that all my history of work for more than 10 years was stored on windows mobile... It is true that I find some difficulties when upgrading, but there is always a way to upgrade and take with you your old staff...

Here is a surprise ...

This was a chat that i made on microsoft official Website...

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TOPIC:

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-How can we move forward by continuing what we were used to do with WP6.5 and work with WP7?

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DESCRIPTION:

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-Ok it seems that i will regret buying my new HTC HD7 that operates Windows phone 7.

-I have my own software that i purchased for windows phone 6.5 and i have no idea if I am able to install these softwares on windows phone 7.

-I use these software in my work and the backup softwares that i was used to for getting back all my contacts and SMS's... If anyone have a solution for this please reply and help the windows phone users.

-I beleive I am not the only one suffering from the same problem.

-Is Microsoft asking us to go and buy again the same softwares just for the reason of being windows phone 7?

-Ok, let us think forward, I will buy the new windows phone 7 apps but I want to be sure that these apps can also work on windows phone 6.5 so that i can continue building up by taking my old personal files and continue.

-I don't think it is a good idea to restart from scratch again...!

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REPLY: from Joel Ivory Johnson

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Cutting straight to the conclusion, Windows Phone isn't a form of Windows Mobile and has no compatibility with it. You can't use your Windows Mobile software on it.

If you want to see the full reasons behing the break away from Windows Mobile for a consumer solution you will want to watch the 15 February 2010 announcement from the Mobile World Congress for what was then called "Windows Phone 7 Series" (by Joe Belfiore and Steve Ballmer). The best way I can summarize it is that Microsoft couldn't provide the user experience they aimed for while retaining backwards compatibility. With the shrinking marketshare of Windows Mobile among consumers it would appear that the lost of past investments was already a shrinking concern (after all as users moved to Android and iPhone they were separating themselves from the past software investments. So no matter what it is bound to happen).

So Microsoft designed a new operating system for consumers and Windows Mobile (now called Windows Embedded Handheld) is still around as an enterprise solution and evolving in it's own direction.

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In reply to Joel Ivory Johnson post on March 12, 2011

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WoW... it was really shocking ... Now microsoft is asking me again to forget about my work in the last years...

I am ordered to push the button and restart or else i will be outdated...

does anyone have a suggestion ?

Now, I will not only think of changing my operating system, I'll think of changing my whole life and go to any other company that would respect people efforts over the years... And i have nothing to sacrifice this time, by anyways I will lose my previous work...

Thanks Microsoft for wasting 10 years of my life... (I started to work on windows mobile since this old i-mate 2020, anyone remember?)

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NOW:

-What do you think? -Any suggestion? -Any work arround? -Should we go back?