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I found the UI unappealing and the heavy use of rotation effects amateurish. Is this the best they can do? Draw rectangles... Vertical list of applications???

I found the UI unappealing and the heavy use of rotation effects amateurish. Is this the best they can do? Draw rectangles... Vertical list of applications??? Microsoft what have you been smoking? And sorry but I just can't shake the feeling that the UI looks like some half-baked demo. Microsoft should have just copied the iPhone and Android, they would have had a lot more success.

karterk 16y ago
If they had done that, I am sure you would have commented here saying it looks like a cheap imitation. Have you actually used the phone?
- bad_user 16y ago
  That's my problem with Microsoft software ... they get hyped months or years in advance with nobody actually using the damn product. And when a product is hyped, you've got to expect a backslash when it doesn't support basic functionality people got accustomed to. I also think that if third-party integration like Twitter will be less than what Facebook got ... WinMo 7 is basically screwed.
  - steverb 16y ago
    My understanding is that any app can register itself for any of the hubs, so I don't see any technical reason why a twitter app can't go in the people hub. No clue whose over-sight it is that the twitter app isn't already there.
  - rbanffy 16y ago
    > they get hyped months or years in advance Remember how cool was WinFS?
- DjDarkman 16y ago
  There are stuff that these OS-es got right, and there is no known better way. Not doing the same just for the sake of not being called a copycat is a stupid thing to do. The perfect counter argument for these is: "that's what people were used to" This all only holds up if there is no known better way.
- netcan 16y ago
  Cheap imitation used to be an MS strength. A $200equivalent of the iphone V1 would be welcome.
PanMan 16y ago
I think it's actually quite cool that Microsoft invented a new UI, instead of copying iPhone/Android. I haven't played with it yet, so I haven't seen the result, but I like that they are trying to do something new, instead of copying others.

karterk 16y ago

If they had done that, I am sure you would have commented here saying it looks like a cheap imitation. Have you actually used the phone?

bad_user 16y ago
That's my problem with Microsoft software ... they get hyped months or years in advance with nobody actually using the damn product. And when a product is hyped, you've got to expect a backslash when it doesn't support basic functionality people got accustomed to. I also think that if third-party integration like Twitter will be less than what Facebook got ... WinMo 7 is basically screwed.
- steverb 16y ago
  My understanding is that any app can register itself for any of the hubs, so I don't see any technical reason why a twitter app can't go in the people hub. No clue whose over-sight it is that the twitter app isn't already there.
- rbanffy 16y ago
  > they get hyped months or years in advance Remember how cool was WinFS?
DjDarkman 16y ago
There are stuff that these OS-es got right, and there is no known better way. Not doing the same just for the sake of not being called a copycat is a stupid thing to do. The perfect counter argument for these is: "that's what people were used to" This all only holds up if there is no known better way.
netcan 16y ago
Cheap imitation used to be an MS strength. A $200equivalent of the iphone V1 would be welcome.

PanMan 16y ago

I think it's actually quite cool that Microsoft invented a new UI, instead of copying iPhone/Android. I haven't played with it yet, so I haven't seen the result, but I like that they are trying to do something new, instead of copying others.