Windows phone 7 has gone gold: The meego parallel
 

Although this is not a direct parallel, seeing as how Microsoft was working on WP7 prior to announcement, it will be interesting to see which OS will be more stable upon release.

Re: Windows phone 7 has gone gold: The meego parallel
 

Depends on your definition of stable. Because of python desktop widgets bug (a WONTFIX), I get daily (manual) reboots or horrible performance. And it's not a one-item list.

Nonetheless, I am really curious as to what the phone feels like. Unfortunately no upgrade for me until they get their multitasking skewed views back straight.

Re: Windows phone 7 has gone gold: The meego parallel
 

Well, a phone with an IE7 as a default browser on it may be the stablest in the universe, but it is still IE7 :)

Re: Windows phone 7 has gone gold: The meego parallel
 

Isn't the browser on WP7 IE8? I heard it's pretty good too.

Re: Windows phone 7 has gone gold: The meego parallel
 

No, its IE7 plus IE8's javascript engine minus everything of use except QuerySelectorAll... They even removed the native JSON object from it...

IE7 was never good, it doesn't even go anywhere near that word. :)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=VS.92%29.aspx

Re: Windows phone 7 has gone gold: The meego parallel
 

IE8 is not particualry good either.. i do not know if it's the browser or the OS win7 that is to blame.. but it have had a lot of problems + is very sluggy.

Re: Windows phone 7 has gone gold: The meego parallel
 

Why do we even compare M$ with Maemo/Meego (Linux)???

M$ - Games
Linux - everything else

Don`t get me wrong am aware that linux can handle heavy games way better, but its a fact that there are almost no games for linux.

Re: Windows phone 7 has gone gold: The meego parallel
 

One question. Is registry still there? :)

Re: Windows phone 7 has gone gold: The meego parallel
 

Hmm.. I find IE8 more faster than firefox. In fact the page rendering on firefox is still far behind than IE8.

Regarding the MS/Linux war.. seriously by now I think one should realize that if you have hung around with linux for eternity then you are never going to like Windows and vice versa for Windows fanboys.

I haven't had problems using Windows at all.

To each it's own.

Re: Windows phone 7 has gone gold: The meego parallel
 

The sheer amount of testing that went into the release is pretty staggering.

I'll wait to hear the Silverlight, Flash and Opera/Fennec announcements before I make a movement towards the platform.

The whole snobbery about the browser is... well, have at it.