Comments on: Microsoft aiming to recover lost ground in mobile

Andy Lees, head of Windows Mobile efforts, admits some past mistakes and hints at plans to deal with them. There's more to come at a trade show next month.

[AppleSuxLeo]

I usually support MSFT...but Win Mo is no WebOS and won`t be any time soon , or in the future.

[xraydude]

I agree with a lot of you who felt Microsoft's statements were typical vaporware. I was forced to go with Verizon's latest attempt to stem iPhone's momentum, the Samsung Omnia. I personally feel the BB Storm will be a major failure for Verizon. The Omnia is almost usable, but only because it tries to put the WM in the background. The problem is that sometimes you can get away with using just your fingers, but then invariably you're having to hit this tiny little x with a stylus to close a window or application. It SUCKS!!! I want an iPhone. The Omnia is using the latest incarnation of WM and waiting 18 months for a fix after all these years is ludicrous.

[JCPayne]

Proof Microsoft can't accomplish anything unless they leverage their Windows O/S monopoly.

[gybognarjr]

Nice and dandy. I would like to ask all journalists, to actively search for a single person, at Microsoft, innovative, bright, risk taking individual, who is brave enough to leave a design committee behind and come up with a nice, intuitive design of anything and put it on the store shelves or internet sellers list. Who is working on and what, at Microsoft? They are worst than GM, at least they let us know, who is their design team for a given car. Microsoft is a faceless Big Brother, slow and lacking vision, individuality, intuitiveness, innovation and aggressive management with a style.
On a separate note, making the WinOS a one time, one computer, must register product is a travesty and a total turn-off. I can install Mac OSX on any of my computers and don't even have to register it, if so desired. Yet few, if any people even think of abusing this freedom, we all respect Apple for their excellence and gladly buy their products. It seems they are not loosing money, because people duplicate the Mac OS en masse and distributing it free. Microsoft assumes, that we are all criminals, so no thanks, I won't buy Windows, Win phones, Vista or anything from them.

[Maccess]

"He noted that the power of the kinds of phones that come out next year will be incredible, well beyond even today's devices. Phones next year will have dual-core processors, super-fast data connections, and graphics power rivaling that of the original Xbox. "

...and a battery life of two miinutes? that's part of the problem with Windows Mobile. That's not stuff people want or need on their phones. They need devices that can be pulled from their pockets to call or send SMS or to look up and input data.

[MSFTObserver]

MSFT still doesnt get that the device has to be a great phone first and foremost. Andy is a smart guy, very aggressive, very numbers oriented, but he and his team don't appear to have fully grasped this particular issue.