Windows Mobile Reality Log
From Techrights
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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
