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In my opinion, the big problem is that Microsoft don't believe in it.
The only reason they've come up with the Windows Phone is to try and cash in on the mobile market. I'm sure that they'll drop it eventually (they have a long record of dropping projects) and focus on tools for mobile app development by buying Xamarin.
That's where they should be really, software, unless they're making high-end seamless systems (which Windows Phone, Windows 8/8.1/RT, Surface (again, in my opinion) aren't).
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Yeah. Let's be honest, they aren't good at making physical products: Tablet PC[^], XBox360[^], ... and they do have a habit of sticking fingers into companies and trying to make them "better" when they buy them. And in effect giving them a Ribbon and a SHOUTY menu... 
Sometimes I wonder if MS know what they are good at?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've been around the block with every phone from Blackberry to IPhone to Android to Winphone back to IPhone and Back to WinPhone.
I love WinPhone! For me it is the ultimate device, except you can't run ITunes on it.
That seems to be how Apple snared in the young people. My kids started with Ipods and worked up to Iphones...the music library came with them.
Getting the Iphone people to switch to winPhone would be the same as asking someone to get rid of their albums/CDs and migrate to a streaming music library (most would recoil at the thought)!
:JeffF:
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I'm enjoying my Windows phone as well, but for different reasons.
Boss: "How come you didn't get that email I sent at 10PM last night?"
Me: "I asked IT to get me hooked up with the BYOD policy, but they don't support my phone OS, sorry."
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What, is your shop on Lotus Notes? Windows Phone integrates perfectly well and easily with Exchange and GMail. I know, 'cause my current and previous Windows phones (7.5, 8.0 and 8.1) do.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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It's not the email system that isn't supported, it's the corporate-mandated kill switch that has to be installed in all BYOD devices.
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I think WP is better in business environments, in my last 2 jobs, I didn't need to ask for Access to remote email or SharePoint sites, just added the Outlook account and WP discovered the servers and settings. iPhone and Android needed IT assistance.
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Hello, Android user here. I have a Windows phone at work. It doesn't have service, I just develop on it occasionally. And I like it a lot. It's years ahead of Apple's design in my opinion. So why do I use Android personally? Because I am completely stuck in their ecosystem. 'Stuck' may be a bad word as I like their products. But I use GMail, Calendar, Music (I pay for this), Drive (I pay for extra storage), Docs, Sheets, YouTube, Hangouts, Books, Photos (every photo I've ever taken I have uploaded), and Voice. Almost all of those daily. In fact, I have NO SMS provider on my phone and solely use Google Voice/Hangouts for SMS/MMS.
Microsoft can't offer this. And as always they were years late introducing their phone (and tablets). Yeah it's nice, but it would be a nightmare for me to switch ecosystems at this point.
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I had a Windows Phone 7 (which was supported up to 7.5 then I was left with an obsolete device), it was that phone that convinced me to move to an iPhone (and begin my gradual switchover to Apple) - after years of resistance 
I hated that I couldn't see how much battery or signal I had without swiping down at the top of the screen all the time, then having it disappear again after a few seconds. Very frustrating when you're trying to send a text from a moving train!
I was amazed that the SharePoint app didn't work with SharePoint on Windows 7, that the YouTube app was a link to the mobile website, that I couldn't get all the common apps that my wife was using on her iPhone - basically it was pretty much useless. Added to which it broke after two weeks when it encountered a couple of grains of sand in my pocket.
Perhaps on Windows Phone 8 they improved all of this, but by then it was too late for me - and probably quite a few other potential customers.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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It looks like Google was miffed about the lawsuits slapped on it by Microsoft.
I would have thought that Microsoft might have been able to pay Google to develop a version for Windows Phone, although I'd imagine the price would have been steep. It still would have probably been worth the price anyway.
It's crap when things you've done to others come back to bite you on your backside 
Windows Phone currently has that familiar feeling around it that many Microsoft products (even some good ones) have had shortly before they're dropped.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I bought Office 365 (1) and I get 1 terabyte of storage for each user and all of the Office applications. My Windows account is my login for my computer, email, Office, one drive - and it is all synchronized. I'm sure you've the same available.
Anyways, I thought the Office 365 was an excellent deal - especially with all that storage.
I guess that applies to the Windows Phone in that the one or two times I needed to see something on my One Drive I could just pop it open and know it would be there.
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1: 1 year subscription for 5 people $99.00
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Nothing really holds you to switch to MS Outlook. You will have Outlook, calendar, address book that is linked to LinkedIn, Skype, Facebook, Twitter. You can easily upload pictures and any documents into OneDrive. You also will have Xbox games. Plus you can use Reading List application to create bookmarks and access them from any Windows devices. Music service is available too.
The list is going to be very long to continue...
In my opinion, the Windows Phone is being hardly accepted at consumer level simply because of bad marketing and lack of device selection. Go to any mobile store here in Canada and you will hardly find any Windows Phone devices.
Ask any sale person what services are available from Windows Phone platform - they do not know. Ask advice what to buy - the answer is Apple or Android. Plus ask your IT for BYOD - most corporations does not support WP.
SergoT
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They missed that train. I agree with you on the tiles concept, AND that the nokia are good phones, well-served by the OS.
But I would never buy one ! Android has pretty much all you need, mostly for ... free. If I want to change my phone brand, I am not limited to Nokia, but to everything but Nokia and iFruits.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I'll soon be switching over from Android to WP. Android is way too annoying, it crashes every few hours, voraciusly eats up RAM and it isn't responsive - I managed to lose phone calls because the phone didn't unlock in time (15 seconds to unlock????). And it's a high end phone...
Apple isn't for me - I don't like their interfaces, nor their ways of locking your phone as if it is theirs, and it costs way too much for below-par hw specs. And I hate Apple fan boys and iTunes.
WP on the other hand... has Nokia as producer and each Nokia phone I had was reliable and functional, and every person I heard with WP would never chang back to Android or Iphone, so that's my choice 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Erm...my tablet is two years old, and Android.
My phone is a few months old, and Android.
Neither of them has ever crashed.
The phone unlocks in no time at all.
My PC crashes more often than my Android devices! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So you've not turned them on yet, is what you're saying? 
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Well, I took them out to dinner, and then...
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It will take me the better part of the day to get that out of my head.
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My work here is done...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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3 phones, one low-end - to throw away after a few months. Two High-end (over 600 € each) and they lasted as peformant for no more than a year... And they drive me crazy! So I'll try WP.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I have been using a Samsung Galaxy s1 for more than three years now without any problem.
I have been using an Acer Liquid for more than one year without even one glitch or slowdown.
Not sure what you are actually doing with your phones...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Possibly NOT taking them out to dinner?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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My colleagues were standardized on some kind of Samsung, and Androlag hit them hard:
- incoming call without the green button
- so responsible red/green buttons that the icons below them were started after calls
... and the coming soon updates.
In these days 4+4 cores are enough for Androlag to be useful. Try the low end if you dare One-core 10" tablet + Android 4.0 + half year use + 4 newspaper app = memory use crosses 50% and the 4-5 seconds lag comes.
Android is everything bad you told about Microsoft, just gloryfied.
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Totally agree, my first Smartphone was an android, and I really hated that, I throw it to trash before 3 weeks, I missed all incoming calls, and the store is full of useless apps.
I actually have WP, and all my family gradually changed to it. It can control my entertainment systems (Xbox 360 and Xbox One), Cortana is awesome, and in the job is the best tool.
Just a funny story, last week my wife's family lost when coming to home for new year holiday, they have android and apple devices, and they can't find the address in gps, WP with Here Drive comes to the rescue.
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