[tacticalogic]

Excel only won because Lotus was slow in bringing 123 to the dominant Windows platform. Microsoft has no such leverage here, and WP7 isn't even compatible with earlier Windows Mobile applications.

That's amazing. Microsoft can get trashed in one arena for keeping things backward compatible, and trashed on another for not doing it.

[antiRepublicrat]

Microsoft can get trashed in one arena for keeping things backward compatible, and trashed on another for not doing it.

I appreciate that Microsoft didn't make it backwards compatible for once. It lets them lose the Windows Mobile crud and the chains to the stylus. I'm just saying that means Microsoft won't be able to leverage backwards compatibility as has always been done in order to increase marketshare.