Windows Phone 7 Will COST Carriers: Microsoft To Charge For Use

mashable.com:

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system looks snazzy and up-to-date, but it will be at a disadvantage in the handset market because Microsoft plans to charge carriers to use it on its devices.

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Comments

[rohitprabhakar]

12:25 AM on 02/20/2010

Windows Phone 7 for sure is going to be a hit because "It is a meaningful phone OS and almost most of the things that I or you could wish from the Smartphone we carry today."

Read more at
http://www.rohitprabhakar.com/2010/02/16/windows-phone-7-the-first-impression/

[Cryostatic]

07:44 AM on 02/18/2010

Here's the problem with Microsoft's plan:

1. They've abandoned corporate enterprise with WM7, in favor of standard consumers.
2. There's already a well known, well established alternative that already has 20k+ apps available that doesn't cost handset makers a cent apart from whatever custom, in-house development they feel they need to put into it.

If they'd kept to the original purpose of Windows Mobile, which has always been designed for corporate use, they'd probably still have the ability to mass license their OS out, since it's the only licensable option in that area, as the Blackberry OS is only available on RIM devices. I don't see how they can expect to compete with Google on this front, though. If they wanted to charge licensing, then they needed to be first on the market, and have the advantage over Google by the time Android was released. Unfortunately for them, they didn't, and it's going to be very hard for them to catch up, I think.

[SteepleAston]

07:31 AM on 02/18/2010

Did you see the movie "Dumb, Dumb and Dumber"?

Microsoft can not compete against Google and Apple because it is less innovative, and too slow. In addition, its underlying engineering designs are deeply flawed in that they are insecure and inefficient.

[General Public]

06:10 AM on 02/18/2010

Microsoft should port MS-DOS to mobile phones. It would be less RAM and CPU intensive, for one thing. Also, the source code is would be shorter than the source code for Windows Phone 7 so much easier to maintain. Just imagine, using that old monochrome text-based command-line user interface... on a phone... that is almost as retro as using a rotary phone. I think plenty of people would buy the MS-DOS phone just for sheer LULZ. It could easily beat out the iPhone, the BlackBerry, and Google Android based on the LULZ factor alone. It would be epic.

[Shookones]

01:54 AM on 02/18/2010

After my Windows Mobile 6 experience, I would never buy another MS Mobile device. I don't care how it looks. My iPhone is just fine thank you.

[wilray]

11:28 PM on 02/17/2010

Google will own this.

[nicainmiami]

11:25 PM on 02/17/2010

Did the author of this story looked at all the partners (cell phones carriers and hardware makers) Microsoft is working with to bring WP7 phones?

If Microsoft were to fail for charing a WP7 licensing feed, Windows would have long been dead.

I'm looking forward to be WP7 phone.

[Stop the NWO]

09:35 PM on 02/17/2010

Android 2.0 will blow M$ out of the water.

[nicainmiami]

11:19 PM on 02/17/2010

Really? You still calling Microsoft "M$"? Really?? How old are you?

[BobQueuePublic]

07:37 PM on 02/17/2010

I'm a near-fanboy when it comes to Apple computers and iThings, but don't knock Microsoft for selling what they make. The new mobile 7 OS has a gorgeous, perhaps groundbreaking user interface that's anything but copycat. I suspect it might be a resource hog and also it seems a little confusing. But it's not even out yet. And again, it's a fine-looking interface that builds upon the best part of the Zune HD: the software.

I hope Microsoft does well with the new system if for no other reason than the healthy competition that's sure to come. It's an exciting time to be a geek.

[Skyhawk]

05:47 PM on 02/17/2010

Try and pass the costs on consumers, and you'll see those phones collect dust on the shelves.

[crayola 08b]

05:21 PM on 02/17/2010

and yet another indication that microsoft is stuck in the 20th century.

[Eris23]

11:26 AM on 02/18/2010

I'm not sure how, since they are selling their own phone. Essentially, they just took it a step further than Apple, in that they are willing to allow potential competitors to use their software for a fee. What's the loss for Microsoft in that regard?

[amdezurik]

05:18 PM on 02/17/2010

wow, that is pure dumb right there