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The Empire In Decline?
An anonymous reader writes "Pundits continue to weigh in on Steve Sinofsky's sudden exit from Microsoft (as executive head of Windows Division, he oversaw the development and release of Windows 7 and 8). SemiAccurate's Charlie Demerjian sees Microsoft headed for a steep decline, with their habit of creating walled gardens deliberately incompatible with competitors' platforms finally catching up to them. Few PC users are upgrading to Windows 8 with its unwanted Touch UI, sales of the Surface tablet are disappointing, and few are buying Windows Phones. On the Sinofsky front, Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley is willing to take the Redmond insiders' word that the departure was more about Sinofsky's communication style and deficiencies as a team player than on unfavorable market prospects for Windows 8 and Surface. Meanwhile, anonymous blogger Mini-Microsoft had suspiciously little to say."
When it comes to Microsoft's walled garden, I'd think a better analogy would be a caged junkyard...
You're right. Windows Phone 7.x phones didn't sell well. We're not talking about Windows Phone 7 phones though.
We're talking about Windows Phone 8 phones, and those are totally different devices.
Absolutely, the 7.x adopters were burned. But then, most phones are typically not that upgradeable anyways. You're lucky these days if you get one minor revision of the OS in Android phones. I've been waiting for Jellybean for months on my Galaxy SIII, and that's top of the line.
If you phone Is more than a year old, it's unlikely to be upgraded, although in many cases you can burn your own roms to them.
Windows phone 7 devices just didn't have enough hardware to run Windows Phone 8.
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