@Gerbick

"No. Smarthphones are not desktops. ... Until then, people are missing the point... "

You obviously accept there is a point and yet somehow it is the people that are missing the point? huh?

By using smartphones and tablets to replace what they would have traditionally used a desktop for and therefore no longer having a need for a traditional desktop the people are somehow at fault. hmmmm!

Perhaps this is why Nokia has completely and abysmally failed? no?

"I've straddled the Microsoft world as a developer, administrator, deployer and designer (network design and graphic design for web/mobile/desktop app)"

Lucky you, me too! last time I checked several of my many programming languages were core to Microsoft tooling, perhaps M$ should stop trying to manipulate the world of computing and relearn the lesson of delivering what best supports customers! eh?

"Windows Phone isn't full blown Windows"

Indeed, and yet I seem to be able to run many full blown Linux apps on my N900, perhaps Microsoft are not as good at this stuff as they pretend to be?

rgds