Everyone’s excited about the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 software, which Microsoft bulls are hoping will mark Microsoft’s return to relevance in the mobile industry.Reviews of the software have been good, and the only major complaint is that it’s a year behind the rest of the industry–namely Apple’s iPhone OS andGoogle’s Android.
In the rapidly evolving smartphone world, being a year behind is a recipe for trouble. If Microsoft focused huge resources on the problem, however, it might be able to close the gap.
But Microsoft actually has a bigger problem in mobile, one that threatens to turn Windows Phone 7 into the mobile equivalent of the $2+ billion-a-year cash incinerator known as Bing.
Microsoft’s mobile software business model is fatally flawed.
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