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The iPhone 4S will be upgradeable to the next version of iOS. The Nokia Lumia 900 stops with Windows Phone 7.x, and can't be upgraded to the soon-to-be-released Windows Phone 8 (Apollo), which is a rewritten OS. If you buy a phone, you want it to be valid and up-to-date for a couple of years...

Windows Mobile = dead Zune = dead Kin = dead There are still a few Windows Phones on the market, but we know that they'll go the same way as all of Microsoft's previous portable / mobile products.

Screwed!!! Anyone who just bought a Windows Phone gets screwed, because it will be obsolete when Microsoft shoehorns its desktop Windows 8 OS onto a phone. Assuming the talk is true (which I am convinced it is)

But Windows Phone 7 is the most closed OS the planet has ever seen, even more closed than iPhone. Windows Phone uses DRM to lock it to the hardware, to prevent people tinkering. All content on the phone must go via Microsoft at Redmond, which is the reason why you cannot set a custom ringtone...

Ballmer has a poor memory... Microsoft has no track record of supporting other platforms. Internet Explorer on Mac was a dog. Windows Media Player on Mac lacked the Windows codecs. MSN Messenger on Mac didn't support video, but the Windows version did. The list goes on and on. When Microsoft...

Rotten Mango. Should have been called Lemon. I wonder whether 7.5/Mango will be the last major update for Windows Phone 7. Windows 8 will be a complete rewrite, with an ARM port to run on tablets and phones. Will Windows 8 run on current Windows Phone 7 handsets? Probably not.

FAIL. FAIL reason #1: Every other phone platform already has multitasking FAIL reason #2: Windows Phone still doesn't have it, you must wait another 6-12 months for it FAIL reason #3: It still won't be true multitasking for 3rd party apps, just a fast switcher It's bizarre that Microsoft...

The unanswered question is: Why does Microsoft continue to develop a web browser from the ground up? Why didn't Microsoft do what Google did. Take WebKit as a base, put a Microsoft interface on top, call it Internet Explorer 10, and save tens of billions of dollars in development? But...

Microsoft isn't doing very well lately. While it is getting lots of desktop OS sales, and Xbox sales, the most strategic areas are failing: mobile and browser. IE losing share Windows Phone 7 usage declining Both failed to deliver enough HTML5 support. IE9 has inadequate HTML5 support...

The sad part is that Nokia has thrown its tablet market away, purely to join with Microsoft, which has thrown its tablet market away. Nokia should have stayed with MeeGo, which would have done much better than the current Windows Phone 7 train wreck.

Another Microsoft failure. If Zune failed, then it's inevitable that the Zune phone (Windows Phone 7) will fail. Both late to market. Poorly executed. Not sold in all regions of the world. Unwanted by the public. Always destined for failure.

I like it that Asus will use MeeGo on a netbook. This is fantastic. Even if you buy one and change the OS to a different free Linux distro, such as Ubuntu or Chrome OS, it means you don't have to pay the Microsoft tax (which happens when you buy a Windows netbook and erase Windows to replace...

Glad this ain't you? Windows Phone tanks. Turns into a brick. All photos and documents are lost. Take it back to carrier. Get told it'll take 6-8 weeks for a replacement. Pull hair out. Welcome to Microsoft's Windows Phone world.

So the Zune device (player) looks like it is dead and buried. That means that the clock starts ticking on how long Microsoft will support the services. Safe? Maybe right now, but not forever. We had this same worry with Microsoft's Kin phones, which required a lot of online services to be...

Nokia's Windows Phone deal will fail. People choose a phone for its OS. The hardware manufacturer is less important. Nokia backed the loosing horse with Windows Phone 7. After Windows Phone 7 fades away to the land of discarded Microsoft mobile OSes in the sky, Nokia will be forced to join the...