If you have wanted to know why Microsoft moved to Windows Phone 7 and dumped Windows Mobile 7, take a look at this concept video of WM7 and you will know exactly why Microsoft made the decision.



From Neowin:

When Microsoft announced that they had gone back to the drawing board for Windows Phone 7 and that they were leaving their software ecosystem behind, it was a bold and calculated risk for a company that had fallen far behind in the mobile world. Windows Mobile, the predecessor to Windows Phone, had lived out its useful life and did not evolve with market needs, so Microsoft scrapped the platform.

The video in this post is a concept for what Windows Mobile 7, the platform Microsoft dumped, could have been (in 2010) and thank goodness it was kicked to the curb. For those of you who have used Windows Mobile, the concepts will feel somewhat familiar as it looks like a new coat of paint and some fancy transitions were applied on top of Windows Mobile to create the concepts.

  Windows Mobile 7 concept video shows why Microsoft dumped the platform