MSFT heart Windows Mobile

Everyone I know at Microsoft uses a Windows Mobile phone (well, except for 2 people...one is a guy that works in the Mac Unit and the other is Bill Gates who doesn't use a cell phone). Microsoft employees are often the first customers of our product. To see just how passionate they can be, check out this video clip. It's from an annual employee event called "TechReady", which is attended by our field staff from all around the world.

This clip shows the popular "mobility smackdown" session hosted by Jason Langridge. It continues to be the most popular event at TechReady year after year.

The passion you see in this video translates into vocal and critical feedback throughout our internal testing cycles, also known as "dogfooding".

Windows Mobility Smackdown at TechReady 6

-Mel

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 24, 2008
  If this is true, why dont we see much of any user-created software being generated by the windows mobile-owning masses of one of the biggest software companies in the world? Sure, there is a facebook-app every once in a bluemoon, but there should have been a mass of software utilities and enhancement out there for the platform, and there is certainly not (from Microsoft employees at least).

• Anonymous
  March 24, 2008
  Surur - not sure what you mean. Are you asking why there isn't 3rd party software available for Windows Mobile, or are you asking why there isn't downloadable software created by Microsoft employees? If its the former, check out Handango.com where you'll find tens of thousands of Windows Mobile apps.

• Anonymous
  March 26, 2008
  This one is a keeper. It demonstrates the problem well: Windowsmobile developers just don't understand what their products users are trying to tell them.

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2008
  Just received a Windows Mobile device from my work.  Replaced my BB.  Apps are cool, but wow, email his much, much less intiutive.  Way more "clicks" required to do simple tasks.  And no copy and paste, which is a killer.  Is usability going to be addressed in future releases?

• Anonymous
  March 30, 2008
  I would like to see Windows Mobile 6.0 SDK work with Visual Studio Express (free version).  The system requirements for the SDK say Visual Studio Standard. The trend is free mobile development tools.  Android uses Eclipse.  Nokia uses Eclipse.  iPhone uses XCode. Android SDK and iPhone SDK downloads have been quite strong.  I read Android "beta" SDK has had about 750,000 downloads and iPhone SDK about 100,000 in four days.  That is surprising considering Cocoa-based Apple Mac development community is small.

• Anonymous
  April 01, 2008
  It is really surprising, with so many folks dogfooding no one has pointed out some key issues with WM5/6/6.1.  The one I felt the most is not having ability to dial-in bridge numbers in Outlook calendar invite.. cmmon, it is basic need!

• Anonymous
  April 02, 2008
  Its good to know that Microsoft employees are quite committed to Microsoft products like Windows Mobile. This shows how committed they are to the company as well.

• Anonymous
  April 28, 2008
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