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Windows Mobile Reality Log

Category:Mobile Category:Windows Category:Microsoft With single-digit market share and problems keeping up with competition, the future of Windows Mobile is uncertain. Articles about it have been included in:

2008

  • Eye on Microsoft: All of Windows Compromised, Windows Mobile Claimed Dying


  • 2009

  • Windows Mobile, Vista, and Zune Injure Microsoft: Time to Go, Say Journalists
  • Entire Nation Paralyzed by Microsoft Windows Zombies; Windows Mobile Cracked
  • Microsoft Kills “Windows Mobile” as History’s Lesson Resurfaces
  • Eye on Microsoft: Windows Vista 7, Vista 1, and Mobile
  • Microsoft XBox360 and Windows Mobile Are Still Losing It
  • Another Review of Vista 7 and the Uncertain Future of Windows
  • Eye on Microsoft: Windows Mobile Failure, Server 2008/Vista Failure, and Vista 7 Failure by Design
  • Microsoft Raises Prices, Dodges Old Brands
  • Zune and Windows Mobile Fail at Rebirth
  • Microsoft Confirms Windows Mobile Has Kill Switch and Remote Deletion Built in
  • Steve Ballmer Says Microsoft Screwed up with Windows Mobile
  • Linux Climbs Fast in Mobile, Microsoft ‘Screws’ Badly with Windows Mobile 6.5
  • Microsoft Pink is Already Declared Dead and Danger Dies with Permanent Data Loss
  • Microsoft’s Gadgets and Consoles Still Ridiculed and Avoided
  • Windows Mobile Down to Single-Digit Market Share as Linux Grows
  • Microsoft DRM Cracked Within Hours
  • Microsoft Can Only Wish it Was as Popular as Linux (on Phones)
  • Google is Still Crushing Microsoft, Sometimes with GNU and Linux (see bottom part)
  • IDC Speculation That Vista 7 is Last PC Operating System from Microsoft, Windows Mobile 7 Already Slips
  • Microsoft Drives Developers Away from Windows Mobile


  • 2010

    January

  • Failures in Xbox, Zune, and Windows Mobile Mark “Microsoft’s Downward Spiral”
  • Windows Mobile Suffers Another Defeat Amid Linux Triumphs
  • Microsoft Implicitly Acknowledges Failure in Consoles, Search, and Mobile
  • Microsoft Attempts to Freeze Mobile Market to Harm Linux
  • Vista Mobile 7 Likely Delayed One Year; Vista 7 Always Rented, Not Sold
  • As Customers Hang Up on Windows Mobile, Microsoft Turns to Mobile Linux FUD
  • Another Microsoft Vice President Abandons the Company (Windows Mobile turmoil)
  • Microsoft Takes the Axe to Another Product, Future Grim Based on CES
  • Zune and Windows Mobile Are Going Away


  • February

  • Huge Internet Explorer Flaw, Vista 7 “Kills Batteries”, and Windows Mobile is Virtually Dead
  • Windows Phone 7 Falls on Its Face and Microsoft Still Wants Patent Royalties on Linux Phones
  • Microsoft’s Mobile Strategy: Block GNU/Linux Using Silver Lie
  • Microsoft’s Gadgets/Hardware Business is Collapsing (Zune, Xbox, Mobile)
  • Windows Mobile Down Sharply, Linux/Android Up Sharply


  • March

  • Windows Mobile is Dying as More Major Developers Officially Abandon
  • Latest Failures in Windows Mobile, Zune, and Xbox 360
  • Are Proprietary Software Users Too Dangerous for Copying and Pasting?
  • Xbox 360 Dies Without a “Coffin” and Microsoft’s Other Hardware Endeavours Seemingly a Dead End
  • Microsoft Becomes Increasingly Irrelevant in Mobile Devices


  • April

  • Microsoft is Losing to Google in Search and in Mobile (Linux)
  • Microsoft Kin Fails, Aggravates the Public (Microsoft’s new Zune-like phones fail to impress anyone, even huge proponents of Microsoft)
  • Microsoft’s Phone Business as Dead as Zune, But Apple Too Loses Its Mind
  • Latest Microsoft Hardware Failures: Kin, Xbox, and Zune


  • May

  • In Face of Linux Threat, Microsoft KIN Abandoned by Developers, Neglected by Young People
  • Microsoft Has Already Lost to Google’s Linux and Google’s Gmail


  • June

  • Windows Insecurity Spreads From Desktop to Mobile, Which Fails Badly for Microsoft
  • Microsoft Fragmentation: 7 Editions of Vista/7 and No Less Than 6 Different Operating Systems for Mobile Phones and Devices
  • Microsoft Markets Mobile Products That Don’t Exist
  • Microsoft’s Mobile Business Broke (Rumours suggest that only 500 units of “KIN” were sold)
  • Microsoft’s Failure in Mobile Technology Shows That Microsoft Has No Promising Future


  • July

  • KIN is Dead, Zune May Naturally Jump the Shark Next
  • Danger Assets in Danger: Summary of KIN and Sidekick Demise
  • Under 10,000 KIN Phones Sold by Microsoft in Almost Two Months
  • Fading Future of Proprietary Handsets
  • Microsoft Booster Thinks Vista Phone 7 is Dead on Arrival


  • August

  • Why Microsoft’s Mobile Business Collapsed and There is No Future Haven For It, Either
  • Linux is Climbing to the Mobile Top While Microsoft Falls Below 10% in the US
  • Microsoft’s Zune and Vista Phone 7 Will End Up Just Like KIN


  • September

  • Windows Phone 7 is Already Failing, Linux to Blame
  • MSMobiles.com is Dead, Microsoft Mobile Business Abandoned by Staff (Entering Yahoo! Management), Future Grim
  • If You Can’t Beat Them, Hijack Them (Microsoft Joins Nokia and It Already Shows)
  • Not So Keen on KIN2K (Vista Phone 7) and Why Windows Will No Longer Matter in a Mobile Future


  • October

  • Vista Phone 7 is Dead on Arrival, So Microsoft Resorts to ‘Chill Attack’ on Linux/Android
  • English and Spanish Versions of FSF Post on Vista Phone 7
  • Vista Phone 7 (sic) is Where Microsoft Partners Come to Die
  • Another $400 Million Down the Drain
  • Many High-Level Departures at Microsoft Raise Risk of Entryism, Make Mobile Business Akin to Zune


  • November

  • Billions in Marketing Can’t Help Microsoft Sell Hardware
  • Microsoft’s Vista Phony 7 Jailbroken, Developer Upset
  • Not Even Oprah Winfrey’s Fake Endorsements Can Save Microsoft’s Vista Phony 7


  • December

  • Sales of Vista Phony 7 (sic) Pathetic Compared to Linux
  • Vista Phony 7 {sic} is a Disaster, Implies Microsoft


  • 2011

    January

  • Vista Phony 7 is Broken, Cracked
  • Reviewers, LG and Dell Show No Love for Vista Phony 7 Just Yet
  • Eric S. Raymond and John C. Dvorak Declare the Death of Vista Phony 7
  • KIN Dies Again and Vista Phony 7 — Not Yahoo! — is Blamed for ‘Phantom Data’ Mess


  • February

  • Motorola Dumps Windows, Opposite of Nokia
  • Vista Phony 7 a Disaster to Developers, Verizon Gives It Thumbs Down
  • Vista Phony 7 is Just a Very Costly Experiment


  • 2012

  • Windows Mobile Death and Wiped Data, Applications