The website can be found here.

rattyuk - 15 February 2010 09:17 AM

The website can be found here.

Looks like they found a use for all those Zune cases. Can’t wait, where do I get one.

The Keynote is streaming live from here.

He’s currently searching for a sushi bar. Wonder where they got that idea? Oh and it has pinch to zoom. First impressions - looks a bit too complex for real people.

All about “hubs” apparently.

Partners are already making the phones and they will be ready by the holiday season (perhaps October?) what’s taking so long?

By that time the next generation of the iPhone will be released, the iPad will be hitting full stride, we’ll have at least a couple more major manufacturers of Android phones and for all we know the iPhone could be on Verizon in the States.

DawnTreader - 15 February 2010 09:49 AM

Partners are already making the phones and they will be ready by the holiday season (perhaps October?) what’s taking so long?

I don’t think the software is ready. It’s demoable but not ready I think.

Their whole campaign is knocking the iPhone. No one app at a time. Everything different. But I think that is too complicated. Fine for geeks but I am not sure ma and pa would “get” it.

AT&T and Orange are going to be the main carriers.

Here’s a quote: “Microsoft ‘is resolved as a company level to be successful in mobile,’ Lees said. He indicated Microsoft is willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing to ensure it’s successful.”

Of course. Marketing instead of innovation. Didn’t a Get A Mac ad parody that approach already?

By the way, release “in time for the holidays” is the timeline. It’s February…

DawnTreader - 15 February 2010 10:09 AM

By the way, release “in time for the holidays” is the timeline. It’s February…

Trying to stop people buying iPhones in the meantime.

Typical Microsoft - “don’t look at that look at this” - it looks like they have done quite a good job. But we’re talking 9 months away.

artman1033 - 15 February 2010 10:04 AM

Microsoft likes to “partner” with the telecoms…

Microsoft have a long history of screwing over their partners.

What is it with all these people walking all over the video? You’d never get that in an Apple Keynote. Quite a few empty seats.

Ha ha. Ballmer just put his foot in it with Flash. He’s pretty much guaranteed poor battery life on Windows 7 devices when that arrives. Not that he cares—it’s the handset makers’ problem. That, in a nutshell folks, is why these sorts of collaborations are doomed.

rattyuk - 15 February 2010 10:13 AM

DawnTreader - 15 February 2010 10:09 AM

By the way, release “in time for the holidays” is the timeline. It’s February…

Trying to stop people buying iPhones in the meantime.

Typical Microsoft - “don’t look at that look at this” - it looks like they have done quite a good job. But we’re talking 9 months away.

At least seven months, anyway. By then the market will have moved again. The 4th generation iPhone will be in the market, the iPad will be growing sales, the back-to-school season will be over and new Android phones will be released to the market. RIM and Apple are moving in the enterprise market and the consumer market is saturated with product. So what does a consumer with an existing Windows Mobile phone do in the meantime? Seven months is a long time to wait with an expired contract.

The market will be picked over a couple of times by the time this new OS reaches the market.

The interface looks like (pick one):

(1) It has been designed for “white on black” in order to save battery on OLED devices

(2) It is not at all finished, and that is why it is so sparse, with no fancy shadows or stuff like that.

artman1033 - 15 February 2010 11:06 AM

Nice professional, well done keynote.

Will it boost sales of a product that won’t see the light of day for another seven months?

Quote from over at Tech Crunch:

The build we checked out was really buggy – but considering that they’ve got almost a full year to patch it up, I’m not too worried at this point.

Smoke? Mirrors?

Summary Article here.

Wanted to comment but couldn’t watch the video, didn’t have SilverLight installed .