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I guess I am looking at it as Vista is 5 years newer than XP meaning these machines will be around far longer.

Also the backend is not in XP to make it fully hardware accelerated. I would think that was probably the technical challenge that killed XP. But Its in Vista as it works with IE 9.

To the OP who said MS should have gone the one phone route why? Why should the OS vendor tell me I do not want a hardware keybaoard (Venue) , or a pull out Dolby speaker (Surround) , or large screen (Titan). As a consumer I like that choice vs Apple saying here is 16 gig model here is 32 gig model pick one. That is lose for the consoumer.

As for apps I have about 30 apps installed (not counting games) about 8 of those I use regularly mostly the weather, USA Today amazing for keeping up with the news one of the best non game apps on the platform, 4TH and Mayor ect and that just fine.

I am fine with IE 9 not supporting XP as XP was released in 2011. My issue is what have they done to IE 10 that makes there be no chance it will run on Vista SP2. I have a real beef with this certain things in the OS should not be directly tied to OS release schedules given how long machines linger in houses and organizations.

Maybe this would be a good question for a C9 open question interview as they did before IE 9 was released?

Also I agree with:

spivonious wrote

My favorite is when using IE8 on XP and browsing MS sites, popups appear that tell me to upgrade to IE9.

Someone cant put some browser sniffing to say if XP and IE8 dont offer IE 9 download really.

You should search and see if someone already posted it to the team, if not post the bug youself.

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio

Its to bad the Media Player team is a quiet team, no blogging, no C9 interviews (charles has asked for the C9 community a couple of times and they declined). MP 12 has not been backported and personally on my XP machine if I try to open a larger file over 70 or 80 megs in MP it hangs then if you try to FF or rewind its really slow. I have almost stopped using it.

..you have a phone which is far superior and do not bend to the great Steve Job's will.

..you should ensure that you are not holding it wrong.

..be sure to put your bumper case on before attempting to actually make a phone call.

I have a 25 meg FIOS connection at home, and youtube is almost never good for me, it usually takes me longer to load a video than it does to watch it, the buffering part way through the weird reset glitches should I choose to watch at a resolution higher than 480. Its just a mess. Even using thier HTML 5 player in IE 9 (on the videos that run in it) I still have bad issues. Youtube is a mess, and at times it just seems like thier bandwidth is powered by a hampster in a wheel.

Not sure if people realise this but the Pioneer AVIC-F series nav/bluetooth/radios run WINDOWS CE. Not sure what version, there is a hack called test mode that allows you to access the underlying CE image.

I have the F90bt in my car it world well. check out Avic411.com forums for more info.

WP 7 updates coming to thier premier North American partner AT&T?

Joe Belfoure of the Windows Phone 7/Zune teams. Would love to hear what they plan to do to streamline and improve the release schedule of future Windows Phone updates.