Once again Microsoft have not heard what the customers want. They failed with Vista because they thought they could dictate to the customers and look how that turned out.

With Windows Mobile 7, they have made the mobile phone the everything device when it can’t be that. Whenever you try to treat a small device as a big device you just get programs trying to run faster than the hardware is able to; Microsoft’s previous solution to this is to make the HARDWARE more powerful when they should be making the software simpler.

Windows Mobile 7′s interface is a barrier, it makes me think about where I want to get to when really I just want it to run the program I tell it to. There are too many buttons, options and ‘things’ cluttering the OS that the human eye doesn’t know where to look. Many people have complained about the iPhone’s simplistic interface but believe me that although it does look easy it take someone who KNOWS User Interfaces to design and implement, it also takes the vision of Steve Jobs to implement that and produce it for the masses.

One thing Microsoft must sort out is their message; what are they trying to say by releasing WM7? Are they targetting iPhone users or are they aiming for the corporate stuffy suit market? Whatever it is, right now Microsoft is saying an awful lot, but the message is lost to most of us.