Brad Smith Microsoft Future

Microsoft's plans for the future. Two articles that highlight what Microsoft's plans for the future are really all about, aren't they. Their tendency to describe their desire to manage the user experience in terms of connected devices rather than connected people. At the core of all of this is a desire for the devices that support the experience to have screen, be touch enabled, have always-on or near-always-on connectivity, run the Windows Experience Framework, be more than a proof of concept and enable the capability for third party applications. In other words, you want to buy a device, connect it to the Internet, and be able to use it.

In a lot of ways the Windows Phone 7.5 update is a natural next step for the Windows Phone OS. It's a continuation of the work that Microsoft has been doing since the launch of the platform. The features being added to the Windows Phone OS are the expected enhancements for existing Windows Phone 7.x users, but even more importantly they are the feature upgrades that Microsoft needs