Conclusion …Windows 7 will be far too late.. yet almost all the features u attribute to it have been in 6.1 or earlier and are featured in phones right now.

Conclusion Apple fanboy denying the state of affairs to make it look apples once again about to destroy microsoft. ….

Keep dreaming

Btw android symbian and linux os are all bombing on phones atm.. the future is ms vs apple.. just like pcs .. with linux in a cheap 3rd world 3rd position

[If Symbian is "bombing" with its 55% and dropping market share, what is the word for Windows Mobile's 12% and dropping market share? WiMo will only be increasingly irrelevant.]

MS has traditionally only done well on PCs. In every other market they have made some sales, but not managed to make a real breakthrough. I don’t see this changing while the current management is running the company.

The IPhone is not perfect, but consumers have voted with their wallets in large numbers for it, while they haven’t done so for Windows Mobile. It’s possible that Windows Mobile is superior to OSX on phones (don’t know, haven’t used either – my phone is a Motorola Razr), but even if it is technically superior, this does not matter if consumers would rather buy something else. Look at Palm. The Palm OS is supposed to be a clunker, but people have been buying more Palm OS phones than Windows OS phones from Palm. If the numbers are as lopsided towards Palm OS as I’ve heard, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Palm drop Windows Mobile.

Rim the big winner.. with apple doing well and ms growning.. linux and symbian usage down. I predict ms will overtake blackberry in the same way it overtook palm. iphone and windows mobile will win over blackberry users evtually making it a two horse race.

What Ballmer was trying to say is that the future for smartphones would not come from today’s leaders.
He did.. but what u attributed to him after he didnt. If apple wins his correct he was pointing out palm / microsoft/ PC developers will be the future mobile developers.. obvious apple proved his point. Your really grasping at straws claiming his wrong on this one.

[Your spin on his comments is ridiculous to anyone who read what he actually said. Ballmer was clearly not saying that Apple was going to be the future winner; he was claiming that non-licensed platforms had no future.]

Zune vs ipod.. Zune was released much later.. the sales ratio from zune to ipod would be similar from apple tv to windows media center… wouldnt it?
Point dismissed. First to market advantage.

[Again, the iPhone blew away Windows Mobile despite its head start in 2004. Plenty of Zune fans thought that the Zune could do the same to the iPod. After all, while Apple started selling the iPod in 2001, it didn't have tremendous sales for several years, and every year grew dramatically. Microsoft should have been able to do with the Zune what Apple did to Microsoft and RIM with the iPhone, but Microsoft failed miserably. The iPhone just demonstrates how miserably Microsoft failed. ]

3 Times you mention that MS dosent make pcs or license the hardware… Apple assembles Intel PCs designed for windows and sticks a sticker on them. My PC runs OSX with almost no modification.. yet i prefer to run xp on the same box. MS makes the xbox and u want them to licesne it? Apple dosent licesne hardware they are currently suing someone who is trying to.

Your ranting about ms with no apparent point in this section. MS chooses to not make pc because they will get anti trust suits against them if they do. One of the many monopolys apple can abuse by MS is forbidden from. (Windows must unbundle media player in the uk… where are the restrictions for itunes??).

[Microsoft choses not to make a PC because they don't think there is money in hardware. Yet they did do just that with the Xbox and Zune, thinking they'd do better copying Apple in hardware than in perpetuating the Windows software market into new markets . However, Microsoft has failed at both.]

While observers expressed confidence in Microsoft’s ability to bring down iTunes with its consortium of PlaysForSure partners in 2004….
um wtf ?? few to nobody believed they were going to take down itunes. Your recasting history.

[Go read CNET from 2004-2006. Only after Microsoft failed spectacularly has the pinhead tech media stopped cheerleading for the company's failures.]

The next section describes how everyone needs exchange support… and have taken it up the apple nokia all pay ms so they can connect to exchange. Good buisness for MS .

Time to look at the hardware… apparently “Smartphones with a bad user interface, lethargic performance, security holes, crashing instability, and long boot times can’t be rationalized around with a Ctl Alt Del or fed RAM until they work acceptably”

.. I can listen to bluetooth music (which is reencoded on my device in real time) whilst routing on google maps, downloading email and transfering files over wifi all at once.. hows the iphone go at that?

The iphone is like os9.. it can do 1 thing at onece.. its not a real operating system its a hack. Ive coded for it and there are vast differences to coding for true osx just the same as there are differences between coding for windows mobile and windows. Anyone who thinks coding for iphone = coding for osx hasnt done it… or hasnt ever coded multiplatform before. Cross platform benefit is neligable on windows and apple.. want true cross platform code it in java.. or flash… oh wait weres the iphone support for them??

Hardware features… they are already all out in several wm 6.1 phones theres no waiting unless your an apple fanboy trying to delude the public into steve jobs unreality field. Try freewarepocketpc.net if you want to see free new apps that use those features.

Integration with itunes.. nice… but how many iphone users actually pay for all there songs? Ok now in the real world ppl copy their music collection to their phone and play it.

Conclusion …Windows 7 will be far too late.. yet almost all the features u attribute to it have been in 6.1 or earlier and are featured in phones right now.

Conclusion Apple fanboy denying the state of affairs to make it look apples once again about to destroy microsoft. ….

Keep dreaming

Btw android symbian and linux os are all bombing on phones atm.. the future is ms vs apple.. just like pcs .. with linux in a cheap 3rd world 3rd position

[If Symbian is "bombing" with its 55% and dropping market share, what is the word for Windows Mobile's 12% and dropping market share? WiMo will only be increasingly irrelevant.]

Gartner might be right. It is time to drop Symbian and side with Windows Mobile. The first step has been taken by SonyEricsson. Nokia will follow soon – they have already licenced the Exchange Client from MS a testatment that Exchange is here to stay and that translates to Microsoft!.

So what’s the big win with that separation?

Steve Jobs needs to have a serious chat with Larry Ellison about making Unix-to-Unix integration in THAT enterprise, with Macs as the favored user-interface.

I really don’t see that kind of development in the mobile space – most manufacturers are using roughly the same components. And so, quality will dominate cost as a determining factor in the market.

“With regards to the separation of hardware and software that Microsoft likes to make, I’d like to point out that the computer science department of MIT is located in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. If MIT grounds computer science in electrical engineering then I think that Ballmer is basing his thoughts on some ephemeral delusion. Given that Mr. Jobs bases his machines in the assembling of components and software it seems he understands the integrity of the hardware and software that was the soul of historical computing. The rumored notion of the new Apple Brick factories further delights me, in that Apple will produce not just the software but will add the secret sauce of customized hardware to its assembly. Tell us about the Brick if you know any thing about it. Look forward to your next article
- Emaan”