The Windows Phone story: From hope to dusty abandonware
by Volker Weber
We stroll down Memory Lane and weep for what might have been
Great piece from Andrew Orlowski for The Register. Windows Phone 7 really was a fresh breath of air. Every subsequent restart with WP 8, WP 8.1 and now W10 Mobile has compromised the experience.
For all Satya Nadella’s praise of "experiences" – it’s one of his favourite words – the Windows user "experience" on both PC and mobile has become awful.
Complexity kills.
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