While the whole world is marvelling at the recently announced iPad or at least the Google Nexus One Microsoft has announced and showcased what their next gen Mobile platform is envisioned to be.

http://gizmodo.com/5471805/windows-p...yline=true&s=i

http://gizmodo.com/5471970/windows-p...+%28Gizmodo%29

With all of the marvelous new features two small ones can easily be overlooked:
  • Widows Mobile 7 will NOT applications written for the previous versions of the OS
  • Windows Mobile 7 will NOT support skins

What has Microsoft done? Is this the rebirth of the Windows Mobile platform or is this the death of it. After all with the iPhone and the Android phones out there the only thing that kept WM alive has been the enormous anount of SW for it. And now it has all been sent down the drain.

What are your thoughts on this?