I like rynning's sarcastic commentary - it's just so true.
Leave it to Microsoft to implement a context-menu for something so simple as moving icons around on the home screen... *sigh*
While I like my Touch Diamond, it's Achilles heel has always been the underlying Windows Mobile OS. Microsoft, with its immense resources and experience, should have released a truly intuitive, finger-friendly mobile OS by now. If that's going to be WM 7, well, they're *already* a year late, and getting later. This 6.5 "point" update seems to at least be a genuine improvement, but the incrementalism is killing their platform.
Why is Microsoft so unable to simply play with some iPhones and Android phones, have an "ah HA!" moment, and design an interface that has the fluidity of the iPhone, coupled with the (immense) functionality buried in WinMo's deeply-nested menu screens...
Honestly, Steve Balmer should either be firing someone, or be fired himself; with a really revamped OS (even just a very revamped UI, honestly), along with aggressivly-low pricing, Microsoft could own a big chunk of the exploding smart-device market. Instead, they're pitching another very modest update to an OS that still pays far, far too much homage to it's stylus-based PDA origins.
I'm sorry, Microsoft - I'm a developer on .Net and Windows (luv Win7!), but WM 6.x has been a horrendous disappointment, bordering on pathetic. You should be kissing HTC's rear in gratitude for their hiding the WM interface from users as much as possible (along with Samsung, et al), since they're the only reason WM is still relevant for consumers in the non-Enterprise space.
Kirk Davis
blog.hackingbangkok.com
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