Survey Results - Should Microsoft get back into the Mobile game?

dandy726-Nov-17 5:15

6-Nov-17 5:15

It's really too little, too late, but I still think there's room for a device I can carry with me and dock at home or the office so I drive my regular peripherals (mouse/keyboard/multiple monitors/external speakers/printer/etc) and run my regular x86 apps. Even just a dock and being able to RDP into a remote machine would go a long way--for a lot of people, that would be sufficient to get rid of a computer on their desk.

Strategic mistake about Windows Phone 7 license

Shao Voon Wong5-Nov-17 15:06

Shao Voon Wong

5-Nov-17 15:06

Every phone license is $10 which is later dropped. Which manufacturer wants to pay when they can have Android OS for free and is open source?!

Once used windows phone

Karthik_Mahalingam1-Nov-17 17:05

Karthik_Mahalingam

1-Nov-17 17:05

The experience was pathetic

I don't use Windows phones, but...

Jeremy Falcon31-Oct-17 6:24

Jeremy Falcon

31-Oct-17 6:24

I think they should stay... lack of competition will mean lack of innovation.

Jeremy Falcon

Re: I don't use Windows phones, but...

Karthik_Mahalingam1-Nov-17 17:12

Karthik_Mahalingam

1-Nov-17 17:12

I hope the competition is between IOS phones and Android phones Laugh | :laugh:

Dump It

Rick York31-Oct-17 5:39

Rick York

31-Oct-17 5:39

If it is going to continue to pollute the design of the desktop OS then it needs to be dumped completely.

Re: Dump It

Karthik_Mahalingam1-Nov-17 17:11

Karthik_Mahalingam

1-Nov-17 17:11

yes

Depends on how it is sold

DanM231-Oct-17 5:11

DanM2

31-Oct-17 5:11

Problem with Apple's ios is that it is too restrictive. Problem with google services/android is that you are the product, not the customer-- it couldn't exist if the main goal wasn't to take all of your data and broadcast it as many places as possible. This doesn't give many a warm feeling to use android for banking, taxes, or corporate use. What's worse, if you don't accept google's ability to track your location, browse history, etc, they take away features from you that used to exist in previous versions of google services. (i.e. you can't say "Call Bob" and have it look up a basic # from your phone. This used to be free, but now it requires ALL permissions). My point is they can and do change their requirements at a whim, and you just have to accept their policy because you are not their customer.

If Microsoft can sell the O/S and I'd be the customer, I think they'd have something. I do think this would require them to make a surface phone to get it moving.

Re: Depends on how it is sold

PeejayAdams2-Nov-17 5:27

PeejayAdams

2-Nov-17 5:27

DanM2 wrote:
Problem with google services/android is that you are the product, not the customer

You've hit the nail on the head, there.

98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Decent software

KC@CahabaGBA31-Oct-17 3:24

KC@CahabaGBA

31-Oct-17 3:24

Microsoft makes some decent software howbeit not always the top tier in all the pursuits they endeavor, but their ability to interact across their software platforms adds to the value they hold.

They have failed miserable in mobile OS development, the only way they could ever succeed is to start over again completely embracing technology that eclipse the best of modern mobile device capabilities. (not impossible, but daunting and even then if they pulled it off the question of if the market would support such an offering is a massive gamble!)

Their apps on the other hand have seen some very solid adaptations on non-MS portable devices. Grandpa always said 'Do what you do, do, well' and I believe that MS should take that to heart.

Absolutely

Nathan Minier31-Oct-17 1:14

Nathan Minier

31-Oct-17 1:14

My W10 Lumina is the first smartphone that I've actually liked and doesn't run like the CPU was constructed out of garbage and cardboard.

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No, but...

PIEBALDconsult30-Oct-17 17:46

PIEBALDconsult

30-Oct-17 17:46

A DEC Rainbow phone... Laugh | :laugh:

Re: No, but...

Gary Wheeler31-Oct-17 1:27

Gary Wheeler

31-Oct-17 1:27

Pshaw. A Rainbow wouldn't be worth squat as a smartphone.

A VAXphone, on the other hand, sounds like a great idea. You could even have them automatically cluster whenever two or more were in WiFi proximity.

Hmm. I just visualized VT-220 compatibility on a smartphone screen.

Software Zen: delete this;

Give it up.

Ron Anders30-Oct-17 3:01

Ron Anders

30-Oct-17 3:01

Microsoft and hardware......

Re: Give it up.

OriginalGriff30-Oct-17 7:28

OriginalGriff

30-Oct-17 7:28

I was going to post a reply, but I got a Red Ring of Death.

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Re: Give it up.

ZurdoDev30-Oct-17 7:48

ZurdoDev

30-Oct-17 7:48

Ron Anders wrote:
Microsoft and hardware

Ya, xBox sucks. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Slacker00730-Oct-17 2:45

Slacker007

30-Oct-17 2:45

They should stick with what they know, and "try" to make what they know, better.

Re: No

OriginalGriff30-Oct-17 5:11

OriginalGriff

30-Oct-17 5:11

Trouble with that is that MS has never shown any sign of knowing what they are good at...

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Re: No

Slacker00730-Oct-17 5:52

Slacker007

30-Oct-17 5:52

I don't buy into that. I make an extremely good living using their software (VS, etc). If they made rubbish software, then I would be using something else.

With that said, there is still plenty of room for improvement.

Re: No

OriginalGriff30-Oct-17 6:15

OriginalGriff

30-Oct-17 6:15

No, that's not what I meant.
They do indeed make some excellent software: VS, Win7, SQL Server, even Excel is by far the best spreadsheet.

But... They don't seem to know what is good, and should be kept, and what is crap and should be fixed or replaced. Instead, they mostly add crap and ignore bugs; replace the good with the bad; and can't learn from their mistakes! It's a frustrating experience: watching good ideas go to hell, because the corporate rule is "this way" regardless of how much users dislike it...

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Re: No

Slacker00730-Oct-17 6:35

Slacker007

30-Oct-17 6:35

Ah, I see now. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Re: No

Jim_Snyder31-Oct-17 3:47

Jim_Snyder

31-Oct-17 3:47

Absolute proof of what OriginalGriff is talking about is the developing great new technologies, then abandoning them almost immediately. OpenXML is an example. It bypassed Interop's slow speed and allowed detailed control over what the spreadsheet could become, but they never completed building a high level interface for it or updated it for interaction with newer technology.

Re: No

CPallini2-Nov-17 8:02

CPallini

2-Nov-17 8:02

They are good (or others are very bad) at documentation, in my opinion.

Re: No

OriginalGriff2-Nov-17 8:59

OriginalGriff

2-Nov-17 8:59

They have certainly improved a lot! Back t=in the DOS days, the documentation had a "brick wall" learning curve: if you didn't know what a command was called, you couldn't find out how to use it! Laugh | :laugh:

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Re: No

virang_213-Nov-17 16:32

virang_21

3-Nov-17 16:32

try
{
 MakeNewWindowsPhone();
}
catch(NotSellingException ex)
{

}
catch(NotCompatibleWithAnythingException ex)
{

}
catch(NobodyWantsException ex)
{

}
finally
{
  GiveUp(); 
}

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Option	Votes	%
Microsoft should make a Surface Phone	245	27.34
Microsoft should keep building on Windows Mobile 10	181	20.20
Microsoft should bring the full Windows 10 OS to a phone	194	21.65
Microsoft should just port its apps to iOS and Android	284	31.70
Microsoft should abandon Windows Phone development	318	35.49
Responses	896
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%