Windows Phone 7: What About Businesses?
It is a known fact that the general consumer market never liked the older versions of the Windows Mobile operating system. In fact, if it were not for HTC’s wise use of the Sense user interface to skin WinMo 6.5, the HD2 would not have been a successful device at all.
Indeed, Microsoft’s unveiling of the Windows Phone 7 series last Sunday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain is a very impressive move. But when you think about it, has MS forgotten one major detail? The WinMo Os has been around long enough to last up to version 6.5.3 –which means that even if the general market hates the OS, plenty of people still use it. This is because Microsoft’s business class user base is second only to RIM’s. The business market has kept WinMo alive and in some ways, successful.
The presentation last Sunday was a blast. The new animations, user interface and the impressive new user-oriented features delivered media, images, social networking, games and plenty of other amazing features in one stylized, easy access and fully customizable package. Missing in the presentation was focus on the “Office” features.
Sure, there is Office and at this point, we can say that the rest is yet to come (the final product is not expected to come out until the holidays). But it still shows that the new focus on the OS is more on social networking and other facets that are important to the general user.
PC World points out a great point in their article about this matter, what about the flood of Facebook updates? The great thing about old WinMo OS is that sorting out your contacts and business correspondences was easy. Let us hope that the previous rumors about WP7 having an enterprise edition is true.
Read the more about WP7 and the business market at PC World.
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