By It’s not unusual for manufacturers to throw some friendly gauntlets around no matter the business they’re competing in but what Microsoft is doing is far from being a gentlemanly gesture. Let me explain.
Ever since the Redmond giant came onto the market with the new take on mobile operating systems and even new smartphone devices, things haven’t been going great.
To be honest, the nearly complete lack of sales information on Windows Phone 7 products almost confirms a dismal showing. In the world of technology where innovation and speed is keen, this wouldn’t be abnormal.
The thing is, Microsoft was never really keen on being just normal. While Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox managed some amazing sales figures and profit margins, the Windows Phone 7 hasn’t shared the fairy tale.
Windows Phone 7
So, have Microsoft acknowledged their mistake/mistakes, promised to do better or to update the Windows Phone 7 devices and their usability?
Not really, among the hundreds of excuses that Microsoft could have made to cover up for their mistake with the Windows Phone 7, Bill Gates’ lackeys chose to pin it on somebody else. That somebody else turned out to be another tech giant, Yahoo.
According to Microsoft’s CEO, Mr. Steve Ballmer, the biggest suffering to the mobile version of Windows 7 the is related to a bug caused by “phantom data”.
What’s even more interesting is in how Microsoft already found a possible guilty party and it couldn’t have been anybody else but the Internet’s slightly downsizing major company.
The victimization of Yahoo has been brought forward by Microsoft because when a client would connect to their free email service a bug would download loads of useless data.
Some reports call for Windows Phone 7 smartphones downloading up to 25 times the needed information when compared to any other OS.
Yahoo Mail
Now, in all fairness, this is a problem from Yahoo Mail and the fact that they didn’t comment on it almost confirms admitting to the situation.
The thing is, that while Microsoft do have a point with Yahoo Mail, it’s not really the biggest problem Windows Phone 7 devices have. Hopefully sometime in the future we’ll see these devices actually compete with Android and iPhone OS powered smartphones.
