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(Unverified)Apr 3rd 2009 1:55PM
I don't think Microsoft should back port it to older devices. Instead I think they should give huge incentives to Phone Manufacturers and OEM's to upgrade their handsets to WM 6.5. This would help Microsoft catch up on the playing field a little more. There are many issues with Windows Mobile and back porting the Software Store will only solve one of them. If they get more WM 6.5 phones out there (through purchase or upgrade) then they will be doing much better.
(Unverified)Apr 4th 2009 8:15AM
Agreed. Would I rather Microsoft spend its development efforts on back-porting Windows Marketplace to 6.1 and 6.0 or speed up development on 7.0? My vote is for the latter. As Daniel commented, to help Microsoft stem the flow of current WM users to other platforms, it should actively encourage manufacturers to upgrade their existing devices to WM 6.5 so they can get Windows Marketplace as well as the additional improvements in 6.5.
"Unlike Apple, Microsoft also doesn't make it easy to upgrade from one version of Windows Mobile to the next."
That's not a particularly fair comment. Apple has two hardware devices, the iPhone and iPhone 3G with varying amounts of memory. WM has a myriad of devices, using all varieties of different chipsets, technologies, form factors, input mechanisms. Microsoft can't simply roll-out an OS upgrade as simply as Apple can.
Microsoft have already commented on how WM 7 will have some sort of hardware abstraction layer so that it will be easier to roll out OS upgrades with less intervention by manufacturers, however WM 7 is still under development (this sounds like a significant architectural change to me - certainly one to benefit Microsoft, developers and users, however it will take time to develop).