http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft culling the WinMo herd, fewer phones to be offered http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/]]>Jan 10th 2009 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/Jan 11th 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/
And, we all know about HTC chosing to scorch MS's name specifically by going with the Ebay-quality Qualcomm SoCs, and continuing to ship devices of such inferior quality -- burning customers for at least 3 generations.

Require WM licensees to pass WHQL hardware conformance tests, or let them go to the Android wolves.]]>Jan 12th 2009 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/
Seriously, if Microsoft just optimized the existing OS, and made the icons and texts bigger for touching, it would make a lot of people happier.

Why do they tend to do such half-assed jobs on their OSs??]]>Jan 11th 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/
Like you intimated, Microsoft's biggest problem right now is they paid too little attention to the condition of the mobile OS that the phone manufacturers had to get rid of the ugly. Too much of what we see from the phone manufacturers should be native to the OS in some way, shape, or form. Now that the phone manufacturer's are distinguishing their offerings by creating these unique interfaces, Microsoft is trying to figure out how to make sure people don't forget that it is actually their OS on the phone.

Saying they're going to restrict the number of phones that have licensed copies of the mobile OS is probably just a ploy to make it look like future versions of the OS are going to be somehow be really special -- trying to capture some of the buzz that has been Apple's, Google's, and now Palm's. What Microsoft is not going to do is cut off a profitable revenue stream.]]>Jan 11th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/Jan 11th 2009 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/
And don't forget the Androids!]]>Jan 11th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/Jan 14th 2009 1:28PM