The Demise of Windows Mobile

Rob Enderle writes about the botched efforts to promote the use of Windows Mobile . Microsoft has announced that it is dropping support for the Windows Mobile operating system, and Enderle says that the lack of support (especially for the developer community) doomed the platform.

-DD

Disclosure: I have a special interest in Windows phones, as years ago I bought every member of my family Windows 6 phones, on the assumption that this mobile platform would rule as Microsoft rules the desktop environment. We discovered a lot of "glitches" with the phone, and the lack of developer support mentioned both in the Enderle article and in the videos. I was very disappointed with Microsoft when the firm shut down the "store" for Windows 6 mobile, as if a phone was reset only the old default applications were available to the user.