Microsoft Essentially Told You Not To Buy A Windows Phone Until Later This Year
With its big Windows Phone 8 announcement today, Microsoft buried its current line of Windows Phones. That's because today's devices run the Windows Phone 7 operating system and won't be compatible with the new software when it's released this fall.
So if you own a Nokia Lumia 900 or other Windows Phone, you're going to be missing out on a lot of great features.
And all those Windows Phones sitting on store shelves are going to be obsolete in a few short months.
Granted, Microsoft will be issuing a minor update to current Windows Phone 7 devices later this year that will give some benefits like the new customizable Start screen. But future Windows Phone 8 devices will get all the glory. They'll get the best apps and most useful new features like NFC payments. They'll also play nice with Windows 8 tablets and desktops.
That's good news if you want to buy a Windows Phone 8 device later this year.
It's really bad news if you're already a Windows Phone 7 owner.
I hope US Cellular gets a windows phone 8 when avalible. I’d like to try one out.
Being a cynic, this basically put the gun to Nokia’s head and pulled the trigger. The basic fact is that if you buy a Windows phone today - you are buying an orphan.
This is exactly what Nokia didn’t need. Basically, this means that the 10,000 layoff will just be the tip of the iceberg.
Or, if you are cynic like me; this was intentionally done to drive the value of Nokia into the dirt; so MSFT can buy them for pennies tomorrow. Stab your business partner in the back today, then take everything he has tomorrow.
This is terminally stupid.
I don’t want my PC to behave like a mobile telephone.
I need it for math and similations.
I won’t touch another Microsoft hardware or software product with a 10 foot pole.
I’ve been burned too many times by Microsoft abruptly dropping a product with no good alternative or upgrade path.
I have a 120GB Zune which still works but the Zune line is now abandoned.
I invested considerable time learning to use MS FrontPage and MS Visual Foxpro. Both products were abandoned with no good alternative or upgrade path provided by MS.
Because I work within the Windows OS, I have to continue using that product, but I will never use anything else from Microsoft.
For the last two years, I have been using MySQL, PHP and Joomla for web development. Working with Open Source tools is a very refreshing change.
Five years ago I thought that you couldn’t go wrong hitching your star to Microsoft. Today I would recommend avoiding Microsoft as much as possible.