The Slashdot title doesn't match the article to, it lists Windows first, whereas it doesn't appear in the Venture Beat title.

When WP launched it was ahead of it's time. Metro looked great, unified messaging, live tiles etc. Feels like they've taken their foot off the gas, same with the XBOne. If MS want market share, they've got to be committed, I'm sure it's possible.

I think by dead they mean dead like a zombie. Difficult to kill and even when one use case gets shot through the brain, there are ten more to take it's place.

So much amazing stuff going on in medicine atm, I wouldn't be surprised if a cure wasn't that far off. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1559800/

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bat-signal.jpg

I have an HD7 and my wife has a Lumia 800, I chose her phone :). I have no problems with MS, aside from Office, I think their software has an undeservedly bad reputation. The OS is very nice, one of my main reasons for getting a WP is coz I like Visual Studio and XNA and I want my home projects to be nice and productive. The integration between camera, social networking, e-mail etc is really cool, photo -> facebook, search for place -> maps, also combining contacts and easy switching between text/msn/facebook in the messaging service. Main downside is the lack of apps (I missed out on the draw something craze), there are so many cool apps on iPhone. The back/windows/search are also really bad for games in landscape mode it's really easy to touch them with the palm of your hand and then some games take an age to restore from tombstoning.