When Windows Mobile 7 was first announced, most of us scratched their head and wondered. By now, I guess that quite a few of you have freaked out – if not, find out more below:
No cut&paste
The first idiocy comes from “focus group research”. Microsoft claims to have figured out that users never use Copy&Paste – and has thus omitted it from the (P)OS.
No real multitasking – J2ME model only
The next embarrassing fact is that Microsoft seems focused on resurrecting the J2ME multitasking model used on old featurephones. It essentially means that one app runs, while all others are halted.
Engadget furthermore got the state machine below:
Marketplace has kill switch
Finally, a rather obvious thing – the Marketplace has a remote kill switch.
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