Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

  • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza
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    1 year ago

    As much as I dislike Microsoft, back in 2015 I used Windows Phone 8.1 for about 6 months and I absolutely loved it, the UI was so smooth and polished, even on low end phones, until WP10 came out and it ran like trash and I went back to LineageOS.

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      1 year ago

      Microsoft didn’t even provide a proper upgrade path for it’s users. WP7 couldn’t go to 8 and same for Windows Mobile 10.

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        1 year ago

        Internally they were two very different things. WP7 was their old windows mobile with a new skin, while WP8 was the actual OS they had been working on for a long time. They felt the same but were very different. I guess they didn’t think it was worth the hassle trying to figure out how to handle that update.

        I don’t know what was the deal with 10 though (I forgot it even existed tbh).