Having used Windows Pocket PC 2002, 2003, Windows Mobile 2005, 2006,
and several flavours of CE I will say it sucks big time. Owning an
iPhone for just under a month,
I will say though it has omissions it does what it does intuitively
and with excellence. On the other hand I have enjoyed over the years
Microsoft Mice and Keyboards. So, yes,
it does not suck because it's made by Microsoft, but as Steve Jobs
pointed out:
> "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste...I
> don't mean that in a small way--I mean that in a big way, in the
> sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring
> much culture into their product?So I guess I am saddened, not by
> Microsoft's success--I have no problem with their success; they've
> earned their success for the most part--I have a problem with the
> fact that they just make really third-rate products."
> --Triumph of the Nerds PBS documentary interview (May 1996)
Μητριτσάκης Βαλέριο Πάρις
IT Manager - C.A.C. Papantoniou Trading LTD
Ηλεκτρονικός Μηχανικός Τ.Ε.
MSc Network Systems
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Mitritsakis Valerio Paris
IT Manager - C.A.C. Papantoniou Trading LTD
Electronic Engineer
MSc Network Systems
MCP ID: 5745185
On 06 Οκτ 2009, at 4:09 μ.μ., M. Horvat wrote:
>> Strikes me they're making a whole business plan out of
>> kicking dead horses.
>
> I'm amazed at what most NewtonTalkers think about Microsoft.
>
> Windows Mobile is actually quite a good OS. Of course, it's nothing
> like NOS but still pretty good. Just because it's from Microsoft
> that doesn't make it bad. After all, if there wasn't Microsoft, the
> Mac would have never took off and the whole microcomputer industry
> wouldn't be what it is today. And if Microsoft products were really
> such crap then they would have gone bankrupt a long time ago. Where
> else do they get their money from other than selling software
> licenses (and maybe some Xboxes, which, by the way, are pretty cool)?
>
> -Matej Horvat
>
>
>
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