Written by Peter Murphy on Sunday, April 12, 2009

A Post Resurrection! and some answers for Windows Mobile Fans


winmofanpage The other day I told you about some attempted transparency from Microsoft, over at the Windows Mobile Facebook page. I was, to say the least, sceptical at the time, but it seems Microsoft have finally deemed to grace fans at FaceBook with some answers! Answers though that are innocuous, and well, affected by a generous slathering of PR spin, sanitised and no real answers at all. For  example:

Nikita

When will…
…Silverlight be finally on WM?
…there be WM6.7? [With SL and SL in Widgets]
…Widgets get IE8 WebSlices?
…century old base OS controls be shiny like XP>Vista?

Windows Mobile

While we are not dicussing future versions of the product beyond what we announced at Mobile World Congress, I can say we are committed to bringing Silverlight to Windows Mobile in the future.

PR spin is a wonderful thing isn’t it, trotting out prescribed answers to hard questions, and counting that as “Job Done” is a wonderful fallback for large Corps like Microsoft. Either tell us something that’s already public domain

Daniel

Will users of a htc touch hd be able to upgrade to windows mobile 6.5? considering it is a brand new phone, top of the line windows mobile phone?

Windows Mobile

That will be a decision up to the Mobile Operator and OEM.

Whatever the answers, there is not a lot of real information there. I wonder if someone got a little slap on the wrist for even proposing this little shindig. How ever you want to look at this, one conclusion is sure, Microsoft is not as  happy with using social media to disseminate information as they might be. The guys over at Mobile Tech Addicts have pulled all of what seems like the relevant info, Q&A into one thread at their site. Hit the link below to be underwhelmed with the response!

Windows Mobile answer the Facebook questions | Mobile Tech Addicts

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dgoldring
Apr 12, 2009

Wow. That is really disappointing. Why bother doing this if you are not at least going to show up with some relevant or useful information.


Peter Murphy
Apr 13, 2009

someone probably got a little slap on the wrist for even suggesting this!! Really, do we think MS are going to broadcast their roadmap on FaceBook!


dgoldring
Apr 13, 2009

No, but seriously, this was a great opportunity for them to interact with their consumers and really answer some of the growing concerns. Do I expect them to put their whole playbook out there? Of course not. But at the same time, giving a little bit of meat could have been a huge PR coup for them. And they missed that opportunity.

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