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Windows Phone 7 will have Skydrive
THIS COMING HOLIDAY SEASON, or late November and December if you will, Microsoft will debut its Windows Phone 7 worldwide in a manner that it no doubt hopes will be more successful than its slate and Kin handset efforts.
Microsoft employee Aaron Woodman waxes lyrically on the Vole's Windows Phone blog about how his "favorite product that features many of Microsoft's new consumer technologies, for obvious reasons, is Windows Phone 7."
He goes on to tell us that "This is a fresh start for Microsoft's mobile efforts; one in which we put the end user experiences at the center of every decision we make." So does that explain why Kin was such an enormous failure, that the Vole didn't bother with user experiences?
Wondering how on Earth he came to those rosy conclusions when so little is known about Windows Phone 7, Woodman enlightens us with new information about the company's vision that includes the ubiquitous cloud.
"Windows Phone Live companion [is a] site that gives people a central place to see pictures they've published, view their Windows Live calendar and contacts, exchange OneNote files and access other information shared between the phone and the Web. The site will offer 25GB of SkyDrive."
If it was not able to convince you to use Microsoft's cloud service Skydrive with the Hotmail makeover earlier this year, then take another look via Windows Phone 7. The phone will also come with Bing as its search engine, Zune for music and video, Xbox Live, WiFi access, plus video and photos.
If you become attached to your Windows Phone 7 handset then the OS also has a "Find My Phone service". This allows people to find and manage a missing phone with map, ring, lock and erase capabilities "right from your PC" and all for free, except for the network contract of course.
Excited? Don't be. Woodman says his employer is working closely with its partners to "determine exactly where and how" Windows Phone 7 will be available regionally this upcoming holiday season.
The Vole's CEO Steve Ballmer was once very excited about its HP Slate prospects, and look at what happened to that. µ
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I'd like to join R in welcoming the suggestion of "Stinkyface McPoopyheads" for use when referencing Vole's staff.
Good work; nice suggestion OP.
The inq needs a name for Vole employees... I vote for "Stinkyface McPoopyheads", as suggested by the commenter above.
@J.:
You read the Inquirer to find seriousness ? Really ? Seriously ? hahaha.
Anyone using the terms "The Vole", "Itanic", "Micro$oft", "The fruity themed company", "Chimpzilla", "His Jobsness" and similars cannot be taken seriously :).
I visit the Inq only for a laugh :), if you want anything better, maybe Dodgytimes, I mean Digitimes is better :)
hahahaha
Will you ever stop with the "Vole" moniker? Perhaps you somehow think it's witty? That it somehow gets cleverer with each use? It's not, and it doesn't. It's just irritatingly childish.
No, I'm not a Microsoft fan. It's just that when people use some moronic term like "The Vole" or write the company's name as "Micro$oft", it just looks they never quite made it out of first grade.
It's hard to take remotely seriously any writing that does stuff like that. I mean, why not call Microsoft's staff "Stinkyface McPoopyheads" while you're at it? It wouldn't make the writing look significantly more childish then the present "Vole" appellation does.
Cancelling the whole "Kin" boondoggle weeks after launch probably will not inspire a lot of consumer confidence in Microsoft products (like the re-branded Windows Mobile, ahem, phone 7).They can pump billions into R&D and marketing, try to insult people's intelligence by re-using their "lucky number 7" in the name, but in the end actions like this demonstrate that Microsoft is not committed to the products it produces (or to those that may have purchased said products), at great expense to its shareholders.
However, extending support for XP also seems to be a sign of Microsoft foundering in the cloud seas. They know it would be suicide to cut all the huge installed base of XP users afloat. I think they are trying to buy time to try and develop something in the "cloud" to also keep users locked-in and pumping money in to Microsoft. Many businesses who want to remain competitive do not want to bite the bullet and upgrade millions of fat-client PCs to Win7 + office 2010 + etc. when they can see that moving to Linux thin client/server cloud-based systems would save them millions, and be more secure, easily/cheaply managed, etc.
The central problem seems to be that Microsoft is no longer considered "trendy", typically has stale, uninspired ideas, and cannot keep up with the exponential development and growth of open source (and is plagued with poor design and security problems to boot). They seem to have left Ballmer at the helm for too long, and employees are crying out for his head as their mammoth company appears powerless to steer clear of the (many) open-source icebergs ahead. Apple will probably get to join them in Davey Jones' locker.