Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup

adeelarshad82 writes "Microsoft officially unveiled its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system, announcing that it will be available on a total of five devices in the US. Windows Phone 7 handsets from AT&T and T-Mobile will begin shipping in November, while devices from Sprint and Verizon will be available next year. In all, Microsoft announced nine Windows Phone 7 phones, the remainder of which will be available in Canada, Mexico, the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Singapore, and Australia. It will debut in some European markets on Oct. 21. While early signs are encouraging for Windows Phone 7, it is being deemed as do or die for the future of Microsoft's business."

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MS Garbage Products: Xbox,Kin,Bing,...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, Windows 7 doesn't suck as much as Vista.

Golf clap Microsoft...

And the rest of Microsoft's products?

The biggest piece of garbage console in history, the jet engine loud, RRoD plagued, disc scratching/destroying Xbox 360 and its wimpy graphics

The dead on arrival Kin

The we can't even pay people to use search engine Bing

Golly? Wonder why Microsoft just got downgraded and their stock has been dead in the water for the past decade with everyone calling for the firing of Ballmer?

They even managed to screw up the latest Visual Studio. Boggle.

Re:If I may add

[Crayon Kid]

In a sense, that's Microsoft's core modus operandi. They copy stuff.

Windows 7 is fresh on the heels of Mac OS X and modern Linux desktop. Xbox 360, a copy of Playstation. Zune vs iPod. Powershell vs Linux and UNIX command line. C# vs Java. IE9 vs Chrome/Safari/Firefox/Opera. WP7 vs Android and iOS. The Marketplace vs AppStore / Android Market / Linux distro repositories. Silverlight vs Flash. Bing vs Google. I won't even go into the multitude of formats and standards they've attempted to undermine with their own (WMV, OOXML, XPS, ActiveX etc.)

Sure, they innovate as well. But they don't believe in what they do, they're not a trendsetter. They're a clueless, awkward giant who looks around and desperately replicates everything it sees, hoping that some of it will catch on. And it does... sort of. But there's no joy, no soul in it.

And what joy and soul can there be, if your core philosophy used to be "embrace and extinguish" and you haven't found another since?

Re:If I may add

[gbjbaanb]

true, but that doesn't mean its good - eg we have sharepoint, can't find one of the documents on there because the indexing/search/layout is poor, and we have word documents embedded into infopath documents stuck onto sharepoint.

I've seen other departments sharepoint sites and they're not much better than ours. Sharepoint needs to be killed by society for our own good.

Re:If I may add

[Alex Belits]

Windows 7 is fresh on the heels of Mac OS X and modern Linux desktop. Xbox 360, a copy of Playstation. Zune vs iPod. Powershell vs Linux and UNIX command line. C# vs Java. IE9 vs Chrome/Safari/Firefox/Opera. WP7 vs Android and iOS. The Marketplace vs AppStore / Android Market / Linux distro repositories. Silverlight vs Flash. Bing vs Google. I won't even go into the multitude of formats and standards they've attempted to undermine with their own (WMV, OOXML, XPS, ActiveX etc.)

And they always do it wrong, losing a fundamental idea behind things they "copied" while keeping accidental, superficial things.

The truth is, they don't understand software development, and never did.

Re:Seriously?

[darkpixel2k]

what do they have to draw people away from Apple, Android, or Blackberry?

XBox Live integration

Windows Live integration

Office integration

Free "sync to cloud" and "find my phone"

ZunePass

Zune software is much better on Windows than iTunes

Works better with Windows (which is what most people use ... iPhone works better with OS X, so I don't think those people are the target)

I use iPhone on Windows, and I'm very much looking forward to being able to uninstall iTunes and never have to fire up that piece of crap again. And the ZunePass rocks (it's a great deal), and that too is enticing for me.

For business types (not me), the Office integration might be a draw. I can see that.

Wow--sign me up.
I can't wait to drop my Nexus One for your solution

I can't wait to replace my non-DRM'd mp3 collection with whatever-the-hell-zune-has

I can't wait to give up my free gmail account and my other free hosted gmail/apps for domains account

I can't wait to ditch the free Google Docs for whatever-paid-office-feature Microsoft comes up with

I can't wait to ditch my free remote sync to my workstation at home so I can sync all my data to Microsoft's cloud. Maybe they'll call it the Sidekick Cloud

I can't wait to ditch my Nexus One that I can plug in to any Windows, Mac, or Linux machine to charge and transfer files with a Microsoft phone. I remember fondly the last 3 Microsoft phones that needed drivers in order to show up as a storage device under Windows. Hell--they even required drivers to charge. That'll be fun. Maybe I can carry around a CD or an extra thumb drive now so I can use my phone on Windows computers.

Actually, the main selling point for me would be if they included a copy of Clippy to help me make phone calls, Microsoft Bob to organize my workspaces and make me more productive, and a copy of edlin so I can take notes.