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by happymellon 143 days ago
> And because the default Windows interface isn’t designed for a handheld screen, we built our own Mobile UI from the ground up to make Windows far easier to navigate on a phone.

Now this I don't understand.

Microsoft literally made a Windows Phone, and made so many people angry with Windows 8.

Did they literally anger people and then throw all that work away? If it's just squares on the screen, surely having an alternative Explorer mode that presents like 8 or Phone makes sense.

That seems insane to burn all that good will and then not keep any of that dev work in the background for future iterations.

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You're expecting way too much from the company that broke the shutdown button in one update, and the next update broke booting.

Microsoft doesn't have competent engineers behind the wheel anymore.