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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
First off, because it's not a first incarnation. Windows Mobile has been around since April 19, 2000; 11 years ago (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile) and has been crippled inexplicably along the way--a lot this last time around--and hasn't made a lot of fans along the way. Windows Phone 7 is only the latest in a series of the same line and it's doing terribly compared to its competition who had FAR less time to make a mobile OS and grow them.
I don't think windows mobile 6 and 7 share a single line of code.
And certainly not the spirit. That's for good or bad, but Windows phone 7 really is a new OS.
Though I agree that microsoft reputation is not as new and white.
 

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