Microsoft Holds iPhone Funeral Event

theodp writes "TechFlash reports that Microsoft celebrated the completion and upcoming launch of Windows Phone 7 on Friday with a 'Windows Phone Pride Parade' complete with zombies, a 'Thriller' Dance, and pallbearers carrying a giant iPhone. 'These kind of "ship" parties are common throughout the industry,' explained Microsoft communications VP Frank Shaw. 'It's a great way for teams that have worked overtime to create a kick-ass product blow off steam and have a little fun.'"

Re:HA HA HA

[robmv]

Zombies??? What are they telling us? that Windows Phone 7 is like a dead man walking?

Future Fandom

[Tailhook]

we need to make some room for Win7 Phone fans here

How many Windows 7 Phone fans attended the Win7 PhoneFest in 2011?

Both.

Re:Are they 'kin mad?

[jd2112]

The Kin failed because it was a somewhat-smarter-than-a-free-with-activation phone selling at smartphone prices. From what I've seen Windows Mobile 7 might have a shot at a respectable market share but I think it will be insufficient to fend off the onslaught of Android and IPhone,

Re:What about the rest of the family?

[Corporate Troll]

Vista? It's still alive... It came with many computer and many users are still using it. Besides, 7 is nothing more than Vista a bit tuned. There are still many things that irk me about sevens interface. (Like no vertical lines in a directory tree... WTF were they thinking?) Luckily you can downgrade Vista Business, which is what came with some PCs at work. Those all run XP Pro now. To get 7 we'd have to shell out money and I'm really not all that convinced of any benefits of Seven. (Bar 64-bit support, but for business use that's largely irrelevant) Users of Vista Home Premium are out of luck though.

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Re:MS used to scare people

[mybecq]

I never thought I'd feel sorry for them.

I don't.

Re:HA HA HA

[Antisyzygy]

Im in no sense of the word an Apple lover. However, I do like their products. I simply will not pay for them because they are too expensive. You can buy similar hardware (from my favorite company HP or even many others such as Asus) for so much cheaper its absolutely ridiculous. Most Apple fanboys will say "Oh yeah, well it wont last as long" but that is simply not true. Not to mention, these same dickheads buy a new Apple every two years anyway.

MacOS and the software it comes with actually are quite good, way better than Microsoft alternatives. Linux can be very good as well, especially the free software available you can download direct from repositories through your GUI. Since so many people contribute to Linux as a platform it seems to me that its very hodge-podge. I think that you have to be much more educated than average in computer science before Linux becomes completely useful. Don't get me wrong, I can use a Linux command prompt and do all the time to run code on a cluster, but it sucks having to read through pages of documentation to do something that should be simple. Ive run into problems with various software many times that I had to wade through documentation to get results. That being said, I have an Ubuntu system I use regularly.

Overall, I think that Apple makes a solid OS, but I think that if they really want to claim that "PC's are dead" they need to lower their god damn prices.

Re:Are they 'kin mad?

[LingNoi]

It's not a ship party. It's a marketing ploy and a horrible one at that.

Re:I've been in the industry a while

[Anonymous Coward]

The AC above reminds me of the one time that Steve Jobs had a presentation that included a coffin on the stage. What he had in the coffin was Mac OS 9.

At Apple, they are aware of, but they don't concentrate on the competition. They focus on the product and the customers, and what others are doing is way down on the list of things to care about.

-jcr

yeah, that is why they have spent millions and millions of dollars on of the most direct and long running anti-competitor smear campaigns the industry have ever seen (the anti-PC ads). And why Jobs on stage just recently had to 'hint' that Android numbers weren't real (claim debunked by Google). And Jobs repeatedly over the years have directly ridiculed features competitors had (“No one wants to watch video on a small screen”) when Apple didn't have them. Not focused on competitors at all those guys.. nooo.