[mbytes]

I agree with you. I used to have a Nokia N900 and that thing was amazing. They abandoned it and switched to a crappy windows based OS which can't do half as many things as the N900 could and also had the potential to. I think they should have continued developing their Maemo OS, it was the best phone OS I ever used.

[gtirloni]

By potential what do you mean? To me anything that isn't too broken by design has potential and certainly WP8 isn't broken by design. I'm wondering if you are talking about ecosystem-related potential or something more technical.

I agree with another commenter.. Microsoft about a hardware company that already used its own software. No brainer.