MJ: Any chance we could stop referring to Windows Phone 7's Metro UI as being "a better operating system than Windows for slate devices" ?
It's FAR more accurate to say that the Metro UI might be "a better user experience than desktop Windows for slate devices".
The fact is that there's a whole heck of a lot more to an OS than the UI. One might argue that the vast majority of an operating system exists outside of the UI/UXP.
Another example of why it's important to differentiate the UI from the OS is that there's a very real possibility that Microsoft will eventually replace the actual OS underneath WP's Metro UI with a minimized version of Windows itself, allowing it to bring a whole host of features to their phone OS that are currently prohibitively expensive to port to WinCE.
TIA.
So passionate am I about this subject that I decided to write a detailed blog on this subject: Will Windows Phone 8 run the Windows Kernel
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