Hi Volt

I didn't realise it was this bad.

quote: "Maybe Microsoft Windows 8 has the ability to capture users in a way where Windows Phone 7.5, 7.0, Windows Mobile 6.5, 6.1, 6.0, 5, 2003 SE, 2003, Pocket PC 2002, Pocket PC 2000, and all Windows CE variants before them, not to mention Microsoft Kin, failed utterly to capture users."

Not forgetting at a slight tangent Microsoft are failing dismally in search with Bing and the total failure of Zune.

I am reasonably confident Surface will go the same way as Zune.

Specc is quite frankly wrong with his baseless assertion that anyone who chooses to support Maemo in a Maemo forum must be a troll and that

Quote: "The point here is they are NOT doing the SAME thing over again. WP8 IS totally different than WP7x. All you trolls have pointed to that ..."

Is quite a bizarre statement of self-delusion given that Microsoft is now on less than 2% of all phones given the totality of the history of versions that Volt has listed and this dropping from roughly 1 in 4 devices nearly 10 years ago.

Clearly Microsoft are doing more of the same thing and equally clearly it isn't working.

How is one more version of WPanything going to achieve even a tiny fraction of the market as it stands?

It is inevitable that closed source mentality is driving (has already driven) foreclosure in that market as developers gravitate towards more open platforms since they can quite simply do more things.

The evidence is that Android is flourishing and that Maemo and its progeny is still alive and kicking despite Elops best efforts and may have a bright future in Jolla.

Whereas Microsoft is not and has not been "kewl" for a very long time.

rgds