Windows Phone 7 launch --- what went wrong? (an underwhelming launch)

Computerworld ^ | 11/11/2010 | Preston Gralla

[counterpunch]

Apple has been really smart with their ad campaign for the iPhone and the iPad. They’ve advertised the Apps. The latest ad campaign for iPad ends with a guitar jamming through the AmpliTube iPad ap. That is something that is tangible. I see Apple ads showing exactly WHAT the iPhone CAN DO, and I say “wow! I want a phone that CAN DO THAT!”

It’s pretty straight forward and simple.
And yet Microsoft can’t seem to tell us what Windoes Phone can do.

So I can’t tell if I want to buy one or not.
Which is the same thing as not.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Maybe Bill Gates would like the government to force us to buy his phone.

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He no longer runs the company. He’s into charity now.

Steve Ballmer’s the man.

[dayglored]

> You are correct however I work in IT and install a copy about once a week. And you have to look at their gay crap until it is finished loading. So I have to keep looking at it far too often.

Yep, understood. I'm a System Admin also, and every time I have to work on some user's machine with the damn default GUI I want to scream.

[scan59]

Windows 7 is only gay if you want it to be.

Microsoft's new marketing slogan?