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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
I sincerely doubt that a marketing push will help. Consider Windows Vista--for all the marketing it had, it failed to win any fans and the commercials were considered incredible blunders. Microsoft has never been known as a successful marketing company--only a good strong-arming litigant and known for winning through underhanded means, not by marketing (i.e.: these examples). Better still--consider, again, the Zune. It had a major marketing push--a very insistent one that backfired: on release day, they called the press together to announce the new ZUNE and asked all the members of the press at the event to throw their iPods into a bin in return for a brand spanking new ZUNE from Microsoft. NOBODY in that press event took them up on that offer and it turned into a PR disaster.

I strongly suspect that Microsoft will NOT be able to win this by marketing, no.
Microsoft's days started with 95 then 98 and then 98SE, they were in the right place at the right time when nobody could offer such an adaptable OS.

Microsoft have really had there days and the only way they will sell this WP is out of the Nokia stable, it could well prove to be the end of both companies if the OS does not prove to an award winning development.

It is clear that Nokia held the world's trophy in device manufacturing untill it failed on the OS development side with Maemo and Meego.

It is going to be a very interesting year to follow from here on, a year from now will tell all i think.