Jazmac
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There is this aire of doom and gloom as it relates to the future of Microsoft continuing in the phone business kinda everywhere nowadays. The standard of commitment is matching the product line with similar products in the industry. At least that is the appearance based on bloggery pro and con with Windows Phone. For whatever reason based solely on almost no official information out of Redmond it does appear that Microsoft has settled the question on going forward with its handset business. Again, this is based on no official information other than this abject silence from them when it comes to Windows phone.
This site has even moved on from Windows Phone Central to be simply Windows Central with more emphasis on gaming platforms, operating systems than Windows Phone. Even Daniel Rubino is MIA of late. I've seen a story or two from him but the energy is less apparent than it once was.
Now when I heard the new CEO announce MS was going dalls beep into mobile, I assumed like many he was talking about Windows Phone. Then a series of later announcements told a slightly different story, up to and including Cortana for all platforms and not just Cortana on android, they called it an enhanced version of Cortana, code named Einstein. It supposed to do MORE on android than it can do on its own platform.
Reminding us one again, that Microsoft, like Blackberry, rested on its own past successes for probably too long. It lost its hunger to command and control what it has and it was theirs to lose. When the tech world began to miniaturize in a big way, MS allowed it to flourish without participating. When it did, it found some old design, dusted that off and delivered MIcrosoft Kin. Which did nothing but embolden developers on other platforms to outright ignore us.
I am the first to admit I understand how fickle customers are and if Microsoft decided to try once more and deliver the take no prisoners, flagships of flagships this fall, the game could change just like what happened with the New England Patriots vs the Seattle Seahawks. But if they don't deliver anything more than another upgraded Kin, we will all have our answers.
This site has even moved on from Windows Phone Central to be simply Windows Central with more emphasis on gaming platforms, operating systems than Windows Phone. Even Daniel Rubino is MIA of late. I've seen a story or two from him but the energy is less apparent than it once was.
Now when I heard the new CEO announce MS was going dalls beep into mobile, I assumed like many he was talking about Windows Phone. Then a series of later announcements told a slightly different story, up to and including Cortana for all platforms and not just Cortana on android, they called it an enhanced version of Cortana, code named Einstein. It supposed to do MORE on android than it can do on its own platform.
Reminding us one again, that Microsoft, like Blackberry, rested on its own past successes for probably too long. It lost its hunger to command and control what it has and it was theirs to lose. When the tech world began to miniaturize in a big way, MS allowed it to flourish without participating. When it did, it found some old design, dusted that off and delivered MIcrosoft Kin. Which did nothing but embolden developers on other platforms to outright ignore us.
I am the first to admit I understand how fickle customers are and if Microsoft decided to try once more and deliver the take no prisoners, flagships of flagships this fall, the game could change just like what happened with the New England Patriots vs the Seattle Seahawks. But if they don't deliver anything more than another upgraded Kin, we will all have our answers.
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