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Windows Phone 7 to Tie Up Loose Strings
What do Xbox, Microsoft Office, Zune, Bing, WinMo, Windows Live, Hotmail and Exchange all have in common? If you guessed Windows Phone 7, then you are correct.
Finally, in a move that many Microsoft fans have been waiting years, nay, decades for–the collaboration of many of Microsoft’s products into one device.
Microsoft is a hugely diverse company with products spanning over many demographics and many markets, the problem has always been that if you owned any one of their products it usually lacked integration with another one of their products. The disconnect between many consumer Microsoft products has been well-storied over the years, but it seems that they have finally taken the hint.
Now that Microsoft’s has hit an early beta with regards to Windows Phone developer tools and has shipped many devs Windows Phone 7 devices, we now begin to see the gaps between their services start to shorten. Like them or not, one thing you can say about Apple is that their products and services are tightly wound together. Most times this is so much so that they overlap (e.g. iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad), but once you are in the Apple world, you are trapped there. Not that I believe Microsoft is planning to trap users into their products only, but an integration of Microsoft’s music software (Zune) into their own phone does and has always made sense, it only took failure upon failure in the phone space to figure this one out.
Music + Video Hub Credit: Winsupersite
As George Garza has pointed out here, the Windows Phones have been sent to select developers and reviewers with some mixed emotions, but the resounding opinion seems to be that Microsoft has something special and different than Apple and Google. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous of the few who now have a Windows Phone 7 in their hands. I have been holding out for the new Windows Phone since the beginning of the year and now it’s beginning to finally look like a reality.
Windows Phone Prototype Credit: Winsupersite
I was recently listening to a podcast by some Microsoft employees and what I took from their conversation was that they are now trying to tie in experiences throughout their products to make it easier for consumers to learn. I believe we will see this even more with the next version of Windows.
Aside from the fact that the new UI is looking fantastic, the ability to tie in all of the Microsoft services and products that I care about is something that I have wanted for a long time and this is the product that looks to finally deliver.
I’m interested in what other users think about the new Windows Phone OS. Are you intrigued, mildly interested, excited, dissapointed, going to buy one as soon as they hit the shelves?
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