I am now a Windows Mobile 6.0 User.

This is my 4th smart phone to be running Windows Mobile. Four Years ago I was using a Windows Mobile 2003 device and then a couple of Windows Mobile 5.0 devices for two generations and now finally Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional.

Windows mobile gets better with every release but the lack of innovation in the software is becoming obvious. If I were Microsoft I would be embarrassed that Apple’s 1.0 phone product makes their Windows Mobile platform look so dated.

The lack of progress in the Windows Mobile space did not go unnoticed by phone manufacturers like HTC in my case.  So they developed the Touch-Flo interface to freshen things up a little.

You know Microsoft have lost it when the hardware manufacturers start getting into software and user interfaces.

Long before Apple announced the iPhone Windows Mobile 6 was in development. I read the specs for “6″ and though it sounded relatively minor in terms of innovation. This lack of innovation is now at the heart of the problem.  It takes someone to steal their lunch before they take notice.

I was listening to the Directors Commentary from Michael Bay’s film The Island, Microsoft had loaned the movie some of their best brains to think tank some of the tech in the movie as it was set 20 years in the future.  All I can say is Mr Bay should have phoned Mr Jobs.

So why do I keep buying Windows Mobile? Compatibility is the answer, Microsoft are essentially a standards company at this point.

Twenty five years ago the young Microsoft executives used to laugh at how dinosaur like IBM was.

Microsoft are now the lumbering beast, so powerful, yet unable to innovate.

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