@mrstickball and WereKitten
You both make good points and we'll all just have to wait and see. I personally have no loyalty to any of the OS providers. I just think that MS is not anyone to count out, especially when they are an underdog (see something we've heard of here called the Xbox 360).
There was a conference in Seattle last month where WinMo7 was shown (under NDA, unfornately), but some things leaked out.
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2009/11/19/windows-mobile-7-shown-under-nda-today/
There's excitement for sure. Apple has set a standard that Android is already gunning for reaching and hopefully surpassing and MS is most likely doing the same. Until we start hearing devs talking about it (which won't be for a long, long time) we won't know for sure how the community feels about it. Nor will we know how phone manufacturers feel about it (remember all of that Droid hype 4 months before it came out? Neither do I).
But there is something brewing that can't be ignored. Zune HD launched, followed by Win7 and then XBL enhancements that focus on multimedia (with Zune branding) and social networking. The new Office10 with a free online version (FINALLY!) is coming in a matter of months as well. Again, there is something brewing . . .
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