Nickname: flizzn

Review: Wow. Mr. Reinhardt I think you are really off-base here. This type of product has been on the market quite some time now. The problem is this: people dont want an "all-things-to-all-people" solution. Why is Blackberry so popular? Because it works. I have used a variety of Microsoft products throughout my life, and I wish I could say that just one of them was as efficent, effective, and secure as the Blackberry. Unfortunately, I can't. Maybe the average user will let these types of isses slide, but CEO's, managers, and professionals will not risk having a device that runs the risk of crashing or having to be rebooted in a time of need. Microsoft's jump into the mobile arena will end similarly to its search and console gaming efforts -- they will end with mediocrity. Yahoo, Google, and Sony have fended off Microsoft in the past, Research in Motion will do the same now.

Date reviewed: Feb 16, 2006 8:01 AM

Nickname: wmstudio

Review: Microsoft is a company not really well known for stable computing platforms, but well known for all kinds of security problems. Now we are going to have all that in the mobile market as well.... Great.

Date reviewed: Feb 14, 2006 2:03 PM

Nickname: mrrm2

Review: The key question is whether Microsoft is willing to open its source-code in order to let in mobile operators and developers, who can build custom screens. It still doesn't, and the Symbian/Nokia approach does. Microsoft is trying to rein in the internet back to the PC, but the internet is liberating itself on the PC and out from it, into home Tv's, pocket devices and low-cost platforms, both in very rich and very poor countries. Microsoft is out of it's depth on this one, it's like the Washington State giant is trying to grab water with it's claws. It is bye, bye, baby bye-bye.It is living without Microsoft, a moniker concept in the wireless virtual world. The underlying reason for this material reality is pointed out in this article: Op. systems have become commodities, available in the hardware mobile devices in different models of the same vendor, or sharing different suites over one op. system platform. Unbundled.

Date reviewed: Feb 14, 2006 12:47 PM