Microsoft To Add Yet Another Smartphone OS This Year

GMGruman writes "Someone at Microsoft either really loves mobile operating systems or can't make up his mind as to which to use, because Microsoft Thursday announced yet another mobile OS, its fifth. The new Windows Embedded Handheld OS will succeed Windows Mobile 6.5 and run on at least some existing Windows Mobile smartphones. It is not the same mobile OS, known as Windows Phone 7, that Microsoft earlier this year said would replace Windows Mobile and break with it in terms of compatibility so Microsoft could better compete with the iPhone and Google Android OS."

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They're all proprietary pieces of shit.

[Anonymous Coward]

Android isn't as bad as most of them, but in the end, these smartphone OSes all end up being proprietary, closed piles of shit. They can all burn in the pits of Hell.

Re:It's becoming a Unix world

[Locutus]

but don't under estimate Microsoft's ability and willingness to pay companies to ship their Windows versions at the expense of others. They paid ISP's to ship Internet Explorer, they paid companies to ship WindowsCE based handhelds, and more recently they paid companies to ship Windows XP based netbooks over Linux based ones. These kinds of direct and marketing based funding efforts have been used to flood the market with Microsoft product and build the brand recognition in the segment and I would expect them to do nothing different this time.

So while Symbian and Windows Mobiles may be surrounded by -nix based devices, billions in $$ has, in the past, been a very good catapult out of what looks like a encircled Microsoft. And remember, the public is _way_ ignorant to how bad their stuff really is since it kinda works. And with Ballmer sticking his head into this segment, you know it is going to get very messy. IMO

It is good to see so many leveraging -nix technology and doing so well with it and it makes sense. Modularity has always been a big part of the UNIX design and having the ability to scale up and down fits most business models well. And it has a history of 'it just works'.

LoB