Celebrating Windows Phone 7's "Release to Manufacturing" status, Microsoft employees held a morbid funeral parade for the iPhone and Blackberry.
The parade through the company's Redmond campus, first reported by NeoWin, included hearses, oversized iPhone and Blackberry coffins, and various Halloween-like costumes.
One truck featured a sign bragging, "Windows Phone 7 OS Platform buries the competition." In doing so, Microsoft takes its place in a long line of products that were billed as "iPhone killers."
Various sources have reported that Windows Phone 7, which went RTM last week, will launch at an October 11 event in New York City, although the first devices wouldn't be available until late October in Europe and November in the U.S.
Microsoft posted a teaser trailer for Windows Phone 7 on YouTube last week, the first in what is expected to be a $500 million marketing campaign for the launch of the mobile OS.
Research firm Gartner predicted Friday that the Windows Phone market share would fall from 8.7 percent in 2009 to just 3.9 percent in 2014. Nokia Symbian and Google Android were placed at first and second with 30.2 percent and 29.6 percent respectively. Apple's iOS was listed in third place with an estimated 14.9 percent market share in 2014.
I guess this is like when the Zune killed off all the iPod's, and Windows 7 and its predecessors killed off the mac OS, and netbooks killed the iPad and stuff...
Microsoft to Apple, "Smart phones: you're doin' it wrong."
Apple to Microsoft: "How many times will you jump the shark?"
Celebrating Windows Phone 7's "Release to Manufacturing" status, Microsoft employees held a morbid funeral parade for the iPhone and Blackberry.
The parade through the company's Redmond campus, first reported by NeoWin, included hearses, oversized iPhone and Blackberry coffins, and various Halloween-like costumes.
One truck featured a sign bragging, "Windows Phone 7 OS Platform buries the competition." In doing so, Microsoft takes its place in a long line of products that were billed as "iPhone killers."
Isn't that a bit premature, if not arrogant?
To paraphrase the famous quote:
"The rumors of the iPhone's death are greatly exaggerated"
wow, where to start. OK, well. Isn't this a little like the embarrassing family member at the family get-together, that acts out uncontrollably and everyone just is embarrassed or tries to humor them? As someone whose has Microsoft certifications, I keep hoping for the best - but I'm not even sure what that is anymore where Redmond is concerned. It's like watching the very slow death of a large bull elephant. In slow motion. In black and white.
I keep hearing about how bad it is on the inside at Redmond, but when things like this crop up - it makes the tales very vivid. You see a lot of this sort of acting out when there is a pervasive sense in the organization that things are not going well. I hope I'm wrong and Microsoft is able to return a real competitor to the mobile market. But then I thought that when
>they introduced Whistler as the "successor" to Win2000 (which became XP, but carried with it the gaping security holes it inherited from it's NT core structure),
>promised Longhorn as the radical bottom-up re-write of the core Windows OS that was to be Vista - but got shelved for taking too long and being hard sell to its legacy base, resulting in a quick refit of the NT kernel that became the disappointment of Vista,
Let me get this straight: The announcement's not for another month, the release in the US is in November...wouldn't, say, Nov. 15th have been the day to hold a funeral? Now there are two months of jokes that can't be shut up with a good demo even if it's a great phone. And by the time it comes out we'll not only have forgotten about the funeral but the phone as well, and the only thing the rest of the world will remember is the jokes.
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Celebrating Windows Phone 7's "Release to Manufacturing" status, Microsoft employees held a morbid funeral parade for the iPhone and Blackberry.
The parade through the company's Redmond campus, first reported by NeoWin, included hearses, oversized iPhone and Blackberry coffins, and various Halloween-like costumes.
One truck featured a sign bragging, "Windows Phone 7 OS Platform buries the competition." In doing so, Microsoft takes its place in a long line of products that were billed as "iPhone killers."
Various sources have reported that Windows Phone 7, which went RTM last week, will launch at an October 11 event in New York City, although the first devices wouldn't be available until late October in Europe and November in the U.S.
Microsoft posted a teaser trailer for Windows Phone 7 on YouTube last week, the first in what is expected to be a $500 million marketing campaign for the launch of the mobile OS.
Research firm Gartner predicted Friday that the Windows Phone market share would fall from 8.7 percent in 2009 to just 3.9 percent in 2014. Nokia Symbian and Google Android were placed at first and second with 30.2 percent and 29.6 percent respectively. Apple's iOS was listed in third place with an estimated 14.9 percent market share in 2014.
Source: Flickr user Trioculus
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"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" - iphone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7xQ8i3fc0
This could be Microsoft's "Mission Accomplished"
I guess this is like when the Zune killed off all the iPod's, and Windows 7 and its predecessors killed off the mac OS, and netbooks killed the iPad and stuff...
Microsoft to Apple, "Smart phones: you're doin' it wrong."
Apple to Microsoft: "How many times will you jump the shark?"
Celebrating Windows Phone 7's "Release to Manufacturing" status, Microsoft employees held a morbid funeral parade for the iPhone and Blackberry.
The parade through the company's Redmond campus, first reported by NeoWin, included hearses, oversized iPhone and Blackberry coffins, and various Halloween-like costumes.
One truck featured a sign bragging, "Windows Phone 7 OS Platform buries the competition." In doing so, Microsoft takes its place in a long line of products that were billed as "iPhone killers."
Isn't that a bit premature, if not arrogant?
To paraphrase the famous quote:
"The rumors of the iPhone's death are greatly exaggerated"
This can only end in tears.
Yeah, this stunt is ballsy, I guess Microsoft is getting cocky. And yes, I said ballsy and cocky in the same sentence
Nice. That image is full of win.
You've gotta be yankin' me. No way they really did that.
Oh....There's a...Photo...
Oh my gosh, what the hell? That is the funniest thing I ever heard. What are they putting in the water in Redmond?
I keep hearing about how bad it is on the inside at Redmond, but when things like this crop up - it makes the tales very vivid. You see a lot of this sort of acting out when there is a pervasive sense in the organization that things are not going well. I hope I'm wrong and Microsoft is able to return a real competitor to the mobile market. But then I thought that when
>they introduced Whistler as the "successor" to Win2000 (which became XP, but carried with it the gaping security holes it inherited from it's NT core structure),
>promised Longhorn as the radical bottom-up re-write of the core Windows OS that was to be Vista - but got shelved for taking too long and being hard sell to its legacy base, resulting in a quick refit of the NT kernel that became the disappointment of Vista,
>finally (at least) cleaned-up in Windows 7.
Apple once held a funeral...for their own product...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7xQ8i3fc0
Wow...
Wow!
Weirdos..
They just embarrassed themselves with that stunt
right now they just seem like total dorks
if they don't actually 'kill' the iphone et al, they will seem like idiots.