Vista Phony 7 is Just a Very Costly Experiment

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is failing pretty badly, costing Microsoft a lot of money, and even disapponting its few existing users whose devices are now getting bricked by an update

As something smelly & dirty hits the fan, Microsoft turns to patents and it’s easy to see why. Microsoft has not got so much left except for a legacy line of products such as Office and Windows (although they too erode). There yet more Microsoft fawning from Rory Cellan-Jones (“Microsoft’s future: Only Kinect”) and not much is said about the company’s overall situation, including debt.

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