Windows Mobile Reality Log

With single-digit market share and problems keeping up with competition, the future of Windows Mobile is uncertain. Articles about it have been included in:

2008

 * Eye on Microsoft: All of Windows Compromised, Windows Mobile Claimed Dying

2009

 * Windows Mobile, Vista, and Zune Injure Microsoft: Time to Go, Say Journalists
 * Entire Nation Paralyzed by Microsoft Windows Zombies; Windows Mobile Cracked
 * Microsoft Kills “Windows Mobile” as History’s Lesson Resurfaces
 * Eye on Microsoft: Windows Vista 7, Vista 1, and Mobile
 * Microsoft XBox360 and Windows Mobile Are Still Losing It
 * Another Review of Vista 7 and the Uncertain Future of Windows
 * Eye on Microsoft: Windows Mobile Failure, Server 2008/Vista Failure, and Vista 7 Failure by Design
 * Microsoft Raises Prices, Dodges Old Brands
 * Zune and Windows Mobile Fail at Rebirth
 * Microsoft Confirms Windows Mobile Has Kill Switch and Remote Deletion Built in
 * Steve Ballmer Says Microsoft Screwed up with Windows Mobile
 * Linux Climbs Fast in Mobile, Microsoft ‘Screws’ Badly with Windows Mobile 6.5
 * Microsoft Pink is Already Declared Dead and Danger Dies with Permanent Data Loss
 * Microsoft’s Gadgets and Consoles Still Ridiculed and Avoided
 * Windows Mobile Down to Single-Digit Market Share as Linux Grows
 * Microsoft DRM Cracked Within Hours
 * Microsoft Can Only Wish it Was as Popular as Linux (on Phones)
 * Google is Still Crushing Microsoft, Sometimes with GNU and Linux (see bottom part)
 * IDC Speculation That Vista 7 is Last PC Operating System from Microsoft, Windows Mobile 7 Already Slips
 * Microsoft Drives Developers Away from Windows Mobile

January

 * Failures in Xbox, Zune, and Windows Mobile Mark “Microsoft’s Downward Spiral”
 * Windows Mobile Suffers Another Defeat Amid Linux Triumphs
 * Microsoft Implicitly Acknowledges Failure in Consoles, Search, and Mobile
 * Microsoft Attempts to Freeze Mobile Market to Harm Linux
 * Vista Mobile 7 Likely Delayed One Year; Vista 7 Always Rented, Not Sold
 * As Customers Hang Up on Windows Mobile, Microsoft Turns to Mobile Linux FUD
 * Another Microsoft Vice President Abandons the Company (Windows Mobile turmoil)
 * Microsoft Takes the Axe to Another Product, Future Grim Based on CES
 * Zune and Windows Mobile Are Going Away

February

 * Huge Internet Explorer Flaw, Vista 7 “Kills Batteries”, and Windows Mobile is Virtually Dead
 * Windows Phone 7 Falls on Its Face and Microsoft Still Wants Patent Royalties on Linux Phones
 * Microsoft’s Mobile Strategy: Block GNU/Linux Using Silver Lie
 * Microsoft’s Gadgets/Hardware Business is Collapsing (Zune, Xbox, Mobile)
 * Windows Mobile Down Sharply, Linux/Android Up Sharply

March

 * Windows Mobile is Dying as More Major Developers Officially Abandon
 * Latest Failures in Windows Mobile, Zune, and Xbox 360
 * Are Proprietary Software Users Too Dangerous for Copying and Pasting?
 * Xbox 360 Dies Without a “Coffin” and Microsoft’s Other Hardware Endeavours Seemingly a Dead End
 * Microsoft Becomes Increasingly Irrelevant in Mobile Devices

April

 * Microsoft is Losing to Google in Search and in Mobile (Linux)
 * Microsoft Kin Fails, Aggravates the Public (Microsoft’s new Zune-like phones fail to impress anyone, even huge proponents of Microsoft)
 * Microsoft’s Phone Business as Dead as Zune, But Apple Too Loses Its Mind
 * Latest Microsoft Hardware Failures: Kin, Xbox, and Zune

May

 * In Face of Linux Threat, Microsoft KIN Abandoned by Developers, Neglected by Young People
 * Microsoft Has Already Lost to Google’s Linux and Google’s Gmail

June

 * Windows Insecurity Spreads From Desktop to Mobile, Which Fails Badly for Microsoft
 * Microsoft Fragmentation: 7 Editions of Vista/7 and No Less Than 6 Different Operating Systems for Mobile Phones and Devices
 * Microsoft Markets Mobile Products That Don’t Exist
 * Microsoft’s Mobile Business Broke (Rumours suggest that only 500 units of “KIN” were sold)
 * Microsoft’s Failure in Mobile Technology Shows That Microsoft Has No Promising Future

July

 * KIN is Dead, Zune May Naturally Jump the Shark Next
 * Danger Assets in Danger: Summary of KIN and Sidekick Demise
 * Under 10,000 KIN Phones Sold by Microsoft in Almost Two Months
 * Fading Future of Proprietary Handsets
 * Microsoft Booster Thinks Vista Phone 7 is Dead on Arrival

August

 * Why Microsoft’s Mobile Business Collapsed and There is No Future Haven For It, Either
 * Linux is Climbing to the Mobile Top While Microsoft Falls Below 10% in the US
 * Microsoft’s Zune and Vista Phone 7 Will End Up Just Like KIN

September

 * Windows Phone 7 is Already Failing, Linux to Blame
 * MSMobiles.com is Dead, Microsoft Mobile Business Abandoned by Staff (Entering Yahoo! Management), Future Grim
 * If You Can’t Beat Them, Hijack Them (Microsoft Joins Nokia and It Already Shows)
 * Not So Keen on KIN2K (Vista Phone 7) and Why Windows Will No Longer Matter in a Mobile Future

October

 * Vista Phone 7 is Dead on Arrival, So Microsoft Resorts to ‘Chill Attack’ on Linux/Android
 * English and Spanish Versions of FSF Post on Vista Phone 7
 * Vista Phone 7 (sic) is Where Microsoft Partners Come to Die
 * Another $400 Million Down the Drain
 * Many High-Level Departures at Microsoft Raise Risk of Entryism, Make Mobile Business Akin to Zune

November

 * Billions in Marketing Can’t Help Microsoft Sell Hardware
 * Microsoft’s Vista Phony 7 Jailbroken, Developer Upset
 * Not Even Oprah Winfrey’s Fake Endorsements Can Save Microsoft’s Vista Phony 7

December

 * Sales of Vista Phony 7 (sic) Pathetic Compared to Linux
 * Vista Phony 7 {sic} is a Disaster, Implies Microsoft

January

 * Vista Phony 7 is Broken, Cracked
 * Reviewers, LG and Dell Show No Love for Vista Phony 7 Just Yet
 * Eric S. Raymond and John C. Dvorak Declare the Death of Vista Phony 7
 * KIN Dies Again and Vista Phony 7 — Not Yahoo! — is Blamed for ‘Phantom Data’ Mess

February

 * Motorola Dumps Windows, Opposite of Nokia
 * Vista Phony 7 a Disaster to Developers, Verizon Gives It Thumbs Down
 * Vista Phony 7 is Just a Very Costly Experiment

2012

 * Windows Mobile Death and Wiped Data, Applications