I have always been a PC person. I’ve always used Microsoft products. My first programming language was VBScript. I like Windows 7. I even liked Vista (after SP2). More important, I have a lot of respect and admiration to Bill Gates and what he is doing on a humanitarian level with his Gates foundation. This guy single handedly is saving more lives and doing more good than millions of us put together.
And I am not a big Apple fan. True, some of their products are very creative and explore new boundaries, but I do not find Macs as intuitive as everybody says they are. It took me a long time to get know how to use iTunes (as opposed to Windows Media Player 11 that I love). And without getting into the Apple/Adobe issue here, I am annoyed by this closed iTunes store model. There is something to be said for the more open Windows model, even if you end up with a lot of junk. (And seriously, it's about time for a right mouse click instead of the 2 finger backslide touch with a double flip reverse).
So when I was shopping for a new phone, I decided to give Windows Mobile a chance. I am with AT&T, so I got the HTC tilt 2. The phone has some neat features: The keyboard is very practical. I liked the little vibrate effect when I typed a letter. The camera is good. The processor is OK. The speaker phone is the best I have ever seen. But the OS was lagging. The programs are in three different locations and it is not easy figuring out which program is where and why. Syncing it was a pain even when I used windows mobile. Then it took me two hours to sync it with my Google calendar, and there was still an error message that I ignored at the end. It froze three or four times during the three short weeks that I owned it. In general the experience was unsatisfactory.
Come on Microsoft! I am rooting for you! Good job on Windows 7. MSSQL is a good database. SharePoint is doing very well (for some reason that I still cannot understand), and Google docs is not making a big dent in Office (I know I am comparing apples and oranges, sort of). But building an operating system is your bread and butter. If you do not have a good OS, nothing else matters. Why are you spending time and money on office mobile if the OS that it is running on still needs a lot of work?
I am returning it tomorrow and will give an Android a shot.
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