The problem with Microsoft is the lack of leadership and vision. There are a lot of smart people but smart people cannot focus their creative juices in the right direction if they aren't given a roadmap and vision. The Kin seem to be a product to reaction to something that doesn't exist and the software it self is crappy - and out of date copy of Internet Explorer being the saddest indictment of it all.
What Microsoft need is a phone built on Windows CE 7.0, a very narrow Win32 API, all applications written using Silverlight (or Flash once ported to the narrow set of Win32 APIs), Internet Explorer 9 with full hardware acceleration and software pre-bundled that links into Facebook and other popular social media sites. If they did that it would have been a roaring success but they didn't and like like usual they sabotage their own products through incompetence.
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