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Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone?

Posted by timothy on from the gave-baby-to-dingo dept.

First time accepted submitter occasional_dabbler writes "Reviews by 'commentators' such as this one predict certain doom for both Nokia and Microsoft on the basis of the OS being a failure, yet whenever the Lumia handsets are reviewed in the mainstream press they are often highly praised. Windows phone is an immature OS, certainly, but it does pretty much everything you need in a smartphone, is getting better with each update and it is beautiful. I have a Lumia 800, and now I'm used to how it and the WP OS works I find it a painful process to go back to an Android or iPhone for some obscure app not yet supported on WP. WP gave me the same feeling I got when I bought my first iBook, fired up OS X 10.1 and realized I had just been shifted up a decade. So why so serious? What do Slashdotters who have really tried WP think of it?"

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  1. Beef? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's my beef? My beef?

    I'm a vegetarian you insensitive clod! I only eat apples and blackberrys.

  2. Re:It's from Microsoft and this is Slashdot... by swanzilla · · Score: 5, Funny

    People would rather buy Motorola Droids even though the adverts feature ninjas and giant robots.

    Even though?

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  3. Re:Rubbish compared to.... by 1s44c · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's VI verses EMACS with Microsoft in the middle trying to push NOTEPAD!

    Microsoft isn't going to do well in the phone market, they don't have the pretty of Apple, the utility of Android, or the stability of either.

  4. Re:It's from Microsoft and this is Slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So there is irrational rabid hate for it.

    30+ years of experience with Microsoft underlies that "hatred" that you so cavalierly dismiss as "irrational."

    Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me for decades and I must be a certified Microsoft specialist.

  5. Re:uhhh... by DickBreath · · Score: 5, Funny

    > I think it's the size of them [Windows phone tiles] that looks silly, looks like a kids toy.

    You mean like the default "PlaySkool" theme of Windows XP?

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  6. Re:It's from Microsoft and this is Slashdot... by sjames · · Score: 5, Funny

    WinRT (formally known as "Windows Runtime")

    Now known as WinRAT ("Windows RUN AWAY! time").