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Summary: Microsoft's latest 'leak' of oversized vapourware is just legacy software on very unappealing hardware

THE CRISIS Microsoft is having in mobile phones is bound to escalate as Microsoft falls further and further behind the competition, which now seems to be led by Linux. According to Engadget, Microsoft's oversized experimental phone which we mentioned a few days ago is just a Windows CE device; "nothing to see here folks," says Engadget.

According to the paper, which tested out a Silverlight-based app that allowed users to follow a trail of virtual breadcrumbs back to their parked car, the device didn't even have a magnetometer at the time of testing -- thus the throwback compass you see immediately above -- and it's actually never referred to as a phone. We'll keep you abreast of any future developments, but even if the project were leagues more exciting we're not sure if we'd put our hearts on the line. Once burned, twice shy.

That's the phone we mentioned before. It's a total embarrassment. Jan Wildeboer saw it and wrote: "If there is a price for bad design, MSFT is a top favourite. Geez. That compass really is too much. Cant. Stop. LOLling... I mean, if #apple leaks a device it at least looks nice. MSFT, please add more design to avoid more #fail." ⬆