Ballmer: MS screwed up Windows Mobile
updated 11:00 pm EDT, Thu September 24, 2009
WM7 team replaced with new talent
Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer recently acknowledged the company's problems getting Windows Mobile 7 onto the market in a reasonable time frame. Ballmer reportedly admitted to a crowd attending a Venture Capital Summit that Microsoft "screwed up with Windows Mobile," according to WMPoweruser.
The executive did not provide many details, although he appeared to place blame on unspecified employees working on the Windows Mobile team. "We've pumped in some new talent," Ballmer said. "This will not happen again."
WM7 has been in development for several years, while other platforms, including the iPhone, have long since integrated more advanced features such as multi-touch. Although the company boasts that over 30 WM smartphones will ship by the end of the year, Motorola announced a complete departure from the Microsoft's platform as it transitions to Android.
Windows Mobile 6.5 is scheduled for release in early October, while v7 is not expected until late in 2010.
WHY???
09/24, 11:28pm reply
WHY DO SHEEPLE KEEP PUTTING UP WITH THEIR STUPID c***??? WHY???
chas_m
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dammit
09/25, 01:53am reply
why can't we copy what other's are doing FASTER!
nowwhatareyoulookingat
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Zunetastic
09/25, 02:51am reply
If this didn't build your confidance in the creativity and innovation of Microsoft--nothing will. Ballmer is the best CEO Apple could have ever hoped for as competition. One last thing, word is, on the street, Windows Mobile 7 is crack-a-lacken!
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re: Zunetastic
09/25, 05:03am reply
I totally agree. I love the fact that Ballmer is Microsoft's CEO. That guy is so befitting Microsoft, it's not even funny. I mean look at him ... he's talking in front of a bunch of Venture Capitalists, and he uses the term "screwed up" ... His vocabulary is just priceless. He has no class, no tact, no intelligence, no style .... just a pure [used] car salesman, with a screechy voice, flabby belly, bald, and clueless. He's the perfect image for Microsoft.
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Windows 7 Party
09/25, 05:12am reply
Actually, I think this new "ad" that teaches you how to host your own "ethnically balanced band o' shoving buddies!" Windows 7 party may be the straw that breaks this camel's back.
It's not that the ad itself is lamer than a leper colony, it's more that someone at Microsoft thought it was a good idea.
chas_m
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MS screwed WM7
09/25, 07:50am reply
Are we going to Ballmer talk about everything MS screwed? I'll help him get started:
- DOS (all versions)
- Windows (all versions)
- Xbox
- Zune
- Plays for sure
- Office
etc etc
Bartman
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I know what you did last summer...
09/25, 08:28am reply
You f*cked up Windows Mobile 7, big time. Who cares? WinMo market share is dropping off the charts and being replaced by Android. Goodbye.
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