, spivonious wrote

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Wait, doesn't WinMo 6.x still have more marketshare than WP7?

And while Win7 and Office 2010 are successful products, they didn't exactly "excite" consumers the way the iPad did. Microsoft hasn't been exciting in that way since Windows 95.

People get excited about shiny things that they can hold and/or fondle.

It's difficult to get excited about software, unless that software is rendering on something shiny that you can hold and/or fondle.