While I may end up being in the minority, I think that they'll do just fine. First, let me clarify that by fine, I don't mean they will be in first place anyti

While I may end up being in the minority, I think that they'll do just fine. First, let me clarify that by fine, I don't mean they will be in first place anytime soon (or ever), but rather I'm talking about having a strong userbase and fighting for second place (out of iPhone, Android, Blackberry, WP7). Really it will come down to two things, Office integration and XBox Live. The way they've set up the office integration as well as integrating with sharepoint and exchange will IMO win over a lot of business folks who are starting to tire of the Blackberry. To dismiss the XBox Live features with "are you really going to play XBOX games on your phone" is extremely misleading, you aren't meant to be playing full xbox games on your phone, the games that you will be playing are more akin to the XBox live arcade games that integrate nicely to the XBox live services (ie leader-boards, achievements, and the like). on top of that, there is the rumors (a little far fetched I admit) of a partnership between Microsoft and Nokia which certainly wouldn't hurt.