Always consider me as “not speaking for Microsoft”. Feel free to tell me that I might have been over here too long and suffer from the Redmond syndrome[1] and don’t know how real customers use our product, but don’t make me use a personal account. I’d never read this alias. :)
Over here the phones are practically free[2] – I picked up HTC HD7 from Amazon (with contract) for $50. [1] We have a name for this internally, which has skipped my mind. [2] Un a manner of speaking of course, I clearly pay via my contract, but even if I bring my own phone, I save very little. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:41 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Windows Phone 8 announced On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:13 PM, David Kean <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: (This is my own opinion, please do not confuse it with Microsoft's, or as representing Microsoft's. While I contribute code to Phone 8, I don't work on the team, and am not privy to why behind their marketing/engineering decisions) :) I'd comment on a gmail account were I you... If I was commenting officially on HP matters I work with, I'd use my HP domained email. Take a step back, how many years do you really think it will actually take for Phone 8 apps to become more prevalent than the Phone 7 apps? How many of you will have already replaced your phone by then? It's been a while since I've owned a phone in Australia so I don't know how it works there, but in the US everyone gets a new phone every 18 - 24 months (depending on if the carrier lets you upgrade early), by the time Phone 8 has released, and has enough apps to worry you, you'll already be at the start of a new upgrade cycle. America seems to have more carrier locked and subsidised phones. Now we can buy them like that here, but it seems to work out better buying the phone separate from carrier. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:03 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Windows Phone 8 announced Seriously ? Is that the new Microsoft policy, just dump old customers ? I see they said 18 months of updates in regards to windows 8. For me, I see Windows Phone as something that's evolving, and thought, and expected it, just like the iphone does, bring customers along with them, not just abandon them every three years or so (well last time it was three years ago) The sad part is I can't honestly tell people they should buy a windows phone today. And it's a paint to have to tell them, yes last week when I said to buy a windows phone that was all we knew, now we know your phone will be obsolete come September. |-----Original Message----- |From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:ozdotnet-<mailto:ozdotnet-> |[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of David Kean |Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012 1:45 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: RE: Windows Phone 8 announced | |I don't why the unhappiness, clearly you were happy with the device |when you |bought it, why do you care that a newer device sometime in the future |is coming |out? | |-----Original Message----- |From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:ozdotnet-<mailto:ozdotnet-> |[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy |Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:48 PM |To: 'ozDotNet' |Subject: RE: Windows Phone 8 announced | |Now I'm really grumpy... My lumia 800 isn't that old, but now |apparently it is :( | | ||-----Original Message----- ||From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:ozdotnet-<mailto:ozdotnet-> ||[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of David Burela ||Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012 4:52 AM ||To: ozDotNet ||Subject: Windows Phone 8 announced || ||For anyone interested, I put my rough notes online of the Windows ||Phone ||8 announcement. || ||http://bit.ly/MrWEze ||Some highlights: || ||* Shared core between Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8. ||* New user definable tile sizes (like Windows 8). Can now have 1/4 |sized ||mini tiles to give it more flavour. ||* A new "company hub" that corporate IT can display apps and deploy |from ||their internal servers. ||* Support for new high resolution screens (720p) ||* Existing device aren't upgradeable to 8.0, but existing devices will |get a ||7.8 update that will give some of the features, such as the new tiles. || ||http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/my-notes-from-the-windows- ||phone-8-announcement/<http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/my-notes-from-the-windows-%0d%0a||phone-8-announcement/> || ||-David Burela ||Regional Technical Evangelist ||Infragistics | | | | | -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
