2009: The Year Ahead – Mobile

re: 2009: The Year Ahead – Mobile

JSYOUNG571 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:41:17 GMT

I must say as an owner of a Windows Mobile Phone for almost a year, I have been very disatisfied with my investment. I have watched how Apple has progress with time and investment in their software to enhance their Iphone. Microsoft would have had a chance had they not treated the mobile world like a step child. I watched how Apple came out with updates and upgrades of software, while windows mobile kept us stuck on professional 6 with no updates. When we finally got an update such as professional 6.1 (sorry as hell) Apple was on their third level of updates. I downloaded the 6.1 professional software for my mobile phone and till this day I wish I would have just stuck with professional 6. Professional 6.1 turned out to be full of bugs causing disfunction in a lot of people's phones. There has not been an update yet to fix the problem and I doubt there will be one. Yes Microsoft could have given the Apple Iphone a run for it's money, but as usual Microsoft withdrawls itself from projects that have potential or they just laugh and say it is a mobile faze and we will out grow it. I can't speak for everyone, but for quite a few of us when I say we brought or first and last windows mobile phone.

re: 2009: The Year Ahead – Mobile

btn — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:12:06 GMT

Where's Mesh, or Office for the iPhone?

re: 2009: The Year Ahead – Mobile

ChaosAngelic — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:56:28 GMT

Never mind, it just went active.

re: 2009: The Year Ahead – Mobile

ChaosAngelic — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:53:20 GMT

Hmm... when will the stream link be active so we can get ready to watch it?

re: 2009: The Year Ahead – Mobile

Kip Kniskern — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:37:03 GMT

While there does seem to be some confusion about IE6 Mobile, it is "ported over" from IE6, according to at least one Microsoft document:

download.microsoft.com/.../Internet%20Explorer%20Mobile%206.pdf

Elements of other browsers, including IE8's support for Jscript v5.7 are also included in IE6 Mobile, so it's more than just a straight port across, but it is IE6 at the core. Otherwise why on earth make mention of IE6 to begin with?

re: 2009: The Year Ahead – Mobile

mdsharpe — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:53:36 GMT

Although microsoft's new mobile browser is called IE 6, I don't think it is based on the desktop IE6. The name's causing confusion there.

What is sad is that as I understand it, they aren't going to let people with existing handsets upgrade their browser.

Although I'm sure the community ROMS will all adopt it quickly and solve that problem for those comfortable with flashing their devices' ROMs.

re: 2009: The Year Ahead – Mobile

foaf — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:15:21 GMT

@colinbo nicely summed up and totally agree. It is certainly the Win 3.11 of the mobile world!

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colinbo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:40:35 GMT

Sorry guys but no dice. Windows Mobile is not even the Windows Vista of the mobile world - it's Windows 3.1. The user and developer experiences are not very compelling, so much so that I'm seeing some MVPs like Dwyane Lamb walk away from WinMo shaking their heads. Manufacturers are putting lipstick on the pig by shipping custom home screens. That doesn't even touch the rich ecosystem Apple has built with the iPhone. Who is the idiot in marketing that decided to ship a mobile browser called IE6? I know they're gutting the engine for this, but don't name it one of the most hated IE releases in the current minds of techies. Why don't they just buy Opera Mobile and get it over with? They did it for System Center Operations Manager (which was NetIQ's product before).

So you add Zune - whoa - a music player that actually does a decent job. The problem is that phones are more than music players now. It's status quo to have one and the Zune one will probably give the Sony Ericsson Walkman phones a run for their money but that's about it. Where is Microsoft with the push towards developers? Where is the Mobile App store? Why is Silverlight 2.0 not shipping on WinMo already? Give me a compelling user experience - not just a couple of Microsoft built apps to sit on top.

I am nearing the end of my contract with my carrier. I'm thinking long and hard about where to go.

re: 2009: The Year Ahead – Mobile

ChaosAngelic — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:32:22 GMT

Unfortunately, Long's website is down, so I hope he can get it back up for the keynote tomorrow. x.x

re: 2009: The Year Ahead – Mobile

ChaosAngelic — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:32:22 GMT

Unfortunately, Long's website is down, so I hope he can get it back up for the keynote tomorrow. x.x