It seems that Microsoft will simply never learn that a single OS sold at a single price is cheaper and easier to support and maintain, doesn't alienate customers and business partners and most importantly eliminates confusion. Oh, I forgot... confusion, like uncertainty and doubt, is a core tenet of Microsoft's business and marketing strategy. Why do they make life so hard for themselves?

For Microsoft to copy the iPhone's multi-touch abilities. It remains to be seen how much of a bloated, counter-intuitive hack job they do in their "interpretation" of it!

@Feathers... MS has made zillions with that approach. So, what's there to change?

There's a huge econo-system that flourishes because of the FUD filled atmosphere that MS creates to surround their products. MS WANTS fearful users, who are dependent on IT personnel to tell them what to do.

It's win-win for all but the users. There's MUCH more money to be made that way!

"Windows Mobile 6.5 has been acknowledged by Microsoft as a stopgap release" ...

Wow, what a brilliant marketing strategy. Hang on a sec while I dig out my credit card.

I have an HTC touch (couldn't justify the original O2 iPhone offerings in the UK) running WinMobile 6 and let me tell you how pants the experience has been. In no particular order:

1. It feels like it takes about 5 minutes to start up -- while the real duration may be less, it's got to be more than 60 seconds and that's just unacceptable in anything that isn't running on a full computer.

2. Default settings that you can't delete -- so the OS comes with "Email Sample" and "Outlook" accounts that are, I suppose, to help people who don't know how to set anything up. Turns out that you can't configure them or change them or rename them. So my phone has always had two accounts that I can't actually access. Huh?

3. Worst web browser ever -- seriously, I have never been able to get the browser to show me anything useful. The NYT is the only site that has ever worked as far as I can tell, and so on most sites if you can get the page to load at all you then have to use a grid-search pattern to find the content because it's too stupid to scale or strip out the absolute positioning.

4. Kludgy touch keyboard -- it's way fun when the touch keyboard slides up and over the box where you're trying to input information. Smart, MS, real smart. Honestly, was there no Q/A testing of this OS at all?

Sorry, I've built up a lot of resentment about this phone. Literally the only thing that I like about this phone is that it charges via mini-USB so I can charge it off of my laptop in a pinch.

Death, Taxes & MS ME TOO. Now three things you can always count on to happen.

Well, it's nice to see they haven't lost their MO of releasing c*** while demoing vaporware and promising the world in the fabled "next release". Then you wait two years, just to see them rinse and repeat.

The irony of MS and Apple. Apple flew the Jolly Roger, but it actually should be MS flying the pirate flag.

That is one ugly OS. Typical MS garbage.

In every demo I've seen of a touch screen scrolling, you can see times when a swipe does nothing at all. This demo is no different. In several places you can see the guy swipe... and NOTHING. I never see this on my iPhone.

WOW and what does the world say about that? the iPhone does not have Flash so let us not develop for the iPhone. We will only develop for the WinMo whatever.

Frankly I do not see why would I ever want Flash. Asn as many of you observed and experienced, WinMo is slow and OMG, no wonder that this guy is presenting without showing his face(reflection not counted). Why? Obviously he does not want want to be kicked by his friends when they see this video. Or he uses an iPhone really and does not want to be snickered at. Heh...heh,..heh