Windows Phone 7 Offers Bing Only
I sometimes wonder if Microsoft actually tries to fail before they get started. Seriously, leaving the only default search engine to their own, is as stupid as calling in the bad press early due to lack of long term thinking. Microsoft, say it with me. Choices.
Being as you are incredibly late to the game (again) with a modern smart phone release, you’re not in the position to ask people to Bing it or leave. The very idea only again proves that Microsoft’s thirst for control is going to be their undoing. This is not to say that Google isn’t just as bad. Only Google beat Microsoft out to the market with phones worth owning by MONTHS AND MONTHS.
The smart money for Microsoft here instead would be to include lesser known search options, along with Bing. Making Bing the default is fine, but adding in other smaller players will go a long way to keeping people from coming to Redmond with torches looking for the Windows Phone 7 beast.
2 Comments
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July 26th, 2010
at 9:54pm
[...] Windows Phone 7 will offer up Bing ONLY. [...]
Justen
July 27th, 2010
at 11:00am
R-O-F-L! Every time I think they’re trying to turn over a new leaf and abandon their medieval approach to customer satisfaction they pull a stunt like this. Three cheers for the late, not-so-great Microsoft, hastening toward its own doom at a pace that can only be characterized as “feverish”.