I'm sitting down at my computer working on some paperwork, and I use Excel and Edge to accomplish this. Edge while it lacks a lot of functions I'm accustomed to in Explorer, at least works. Likewise, every iteration of Excel seems to be better in some way than the previous. There generally are not a lot of problems or work arounds you have to engage to complete a task. Sure there are things consumers don't like, like eliminating the file button and the initial implementation of ribbons. But ultimately those were refined and improved. Either way all of the software functions correctly.
Compare that to the way Windows mobile is treated. It is always in beta. I didn't start using Windows Phone until 7 on an HTC Trophy. I liked it because it was more stable. It didn't even have copy and paste back then. Slowly it was refined until it was a reasonable offering, but lacking apps. A couple years after Windows phone was almost entirely abandoned, Nokia started releasing some cool phones with WP7. Almost immediately, Microsoft released WP8 and made all of those WP7 phones ineligible for upgrade. Sure it had its reasons, but it still sucked. It would be like telling PC users they couldn't update their computers to W10 and all future software would not function on the older computers.
Then WP8 had problems that didn't exist in WP7. Some involved transitions to less functional software like Zune to Xbox Music to Groove. Each time providing a worse experience as software was developed ground up. Normally instability was not an issue. Now with WM10, there are a lot of functional problems, glitches, etc. The promise is that things will improve, but it all starts from this ground up approach, starting from scratch. Sure some stuff improves, but a lot of stuff gets worse.
Using Excel, I can't help but wonder, what if Microsoft did a ground up approach every time with Office. Like Office crashed in the middle of making a document or forced a reboot without saving your work. Or Office would work okay as long as you changed your default save location to C:/User%App%Data.1382. Or that you had to uninstall and reinstall Office after a fresh install because it helped to clean the cache and make it more stable. Or to get Office to have access to the internet you had to call your internet provider, provide them with a key for Google documents and get them to enable it that way.
Really, I would not even use that software. I would consider that terrible software. Especially when Office is the front runner and doing a phenomenal job of stable, slow progress.
Windows Mobile needs to take a lesson from Office. Not from Arkham Knights where you release faulty software, try to patch it, withdraw it, release more faulty software, pull it again...
Compare that to the way Windows mobile is treated. It is always in beta. I didn't start using Windows Phone until 7 on an HTC Trophy. I liked it because it was more stable. It didn't even have copy and paste back then. Slowly it was refined until it was a reasonable offering, but lacking apps. A couple years after Windows phone was almost entirely abandoned, Nokia started releasing some cool phones with WP7. Almost immediately, Microsoft released WP8 and made all of those WP7 phones ineligible for upgrade. Sure it had its reasons, but it still sucked. It would be like telling PC users they couldn't update their computers to W10 and all future software would not function on the older computers.
Then WP8 had problems that didn't exist in WP7. Some involved transitions to less functional software like Zune to Xbox Music to Groove. Each time providing a worse experience as software was developed ground up. Normally instability was not an issue. Now with WM10, there are a lot of functional problems, glitches, etc. The promise is that things will improve, but it all starts from this ground up approach, starting from scratch. Sure some stuff improves, but a lot of stuff gets worse.
Using Excel, I can't help but wonder, what if Microsoft did a ground up approach every time with Office. Like Office crashed in the middle of making a document or forced a reboot without saving your work. Or Office would work okay as long as you changed your default save location to C:/User%App%Data.1382. Or that you had to uninstall and reinstall Office after a fresh install because it helped to clean the cache and make it more stable. Or to get Office to have access to the internet you had to call your internet provider, provide them with a key for Google documents and get them to enable it that way.
Really, I would not even use that software. I would consider that terrible software. Especially when Office is the front runner and doing a phenomenal job of stable, slow progress.
Windows Mobile needs to take a lesson from Office. Not from Arkham Knights where you release faulty software, try to patch it, withdraw it, release more faulty software, pull it again...
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