Star Has Microsoft Missed the Boat With Mobile?
Linked by Kroc Camen on Wed 16th Sep 2009 20:06 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless Sometime ago I conjectured that Microsoft made certain changes to IE8 to force web standards forward and drop backwards compatibility as default (a very un-Microsoft move) because of the need for the web to break out of the blinkered IE6 / Desktop-Browser view of content otherwise Microsoft would find itself unable to compete in the mobile space. It's been over a year since that article and in such a short period of time it has become ever clearer that Microsoft's mobile offerings, and their overall mobile platform strategy are failing against the dominant iPhone, the newcomer Android, and a re-invigorated Palm with WebOS.
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RE[2]: Word.
by Adam S on Wed 16th Sep 2009 21:06 UTC in reply to "RE: Word."
Adam S
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2005-04-01

Sure it can. It just needs to not push IE9 as a Windows update. Or call it something new and say it's their new browser.

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RE[3]: Word.
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Thu 17th Sep 2009 01:17 in reply to "RE[2]: Word."
Bill Shooter of Bul Member since:
2006-07-14

That's the same logic that the article is talking about.
Windows Media Player & Zune Player.

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