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"Windows Everywhere" is a bad strategy for Microsoft. I still don't think Windows Phone 7 was a good name. Why didn't they just go with Microsoft Phone or somet
by dsuriano 16y ago
"Windows Everywhere" is a bad strategy for Microsoft. I still don't think Windows Phone 7 was a good name. Why didn't they just go with Microsoft Phone or something?
- rbanffy 16y agoI believe that kind of misperception happens when you ask your employees the important questions rather than asking your competition's customers.
- me_again 16y agoI have to disagree. You think Apple polled Windows Mobile users what to call the iPhone?
- rbanffy 16y agoNo, but Apple has Steve Jobs. Microsoft has Ballmer. There is a difference. ;-)
- kenjackson 16y agoBut the name of the iPod originally came from a freelance marketing guy, not Jobs himself. After the success of the iPod, the iPhone name was pretty easy. With that said they could have called it the Apple Phone and probably not lost a sale.
- g123g 16y agoxPhone would have been nice, reminding people that they also created something as cutting edge as XBox which gave Sony and Nintendo a serious run for their money.
- lotusleaf1987 16y agoThat would just remind people of the iPhone every time they mention an xPhone.
- alexqgb 16y agoWhich reminds me, Apple doesn't sell an iBox.
- shareme 16y agoCE=Communicate Everywhere, was not a good name either
- binarycheese 16y agoZune Phone would have been better than that horrible WP7 name.