Microsoft has held a parade in celebration of Windows Phone 7 hitting RTM status. This parade simultaneously became a funeral for the iPhone and Blackberry since Windows Phone 7 will surely kill both of Cupertino and Waterloo’s creations.
But wait, I thought you said they've done it again?
Let me take you back to the year 1997, this was the time when Internet Explorer and Netscape where in a great war!
To mark the launch of Internet Explorer 4, Bill Gates decided to trow a party for the software warriors who created his new browser, but rather dan trowing it in Seattle, he decided that the more delicious venue would be in San Francisco, the very heart of Netscape territory. During the celebration that followed, Thomas Reardon and its drunken colleagues noticed the 9 foot tall Internet Explorer E symbol standing in the lobby of the party venue and inspired by a devilish if inebriated idea, they hoisted that huge E symbol onto a truck, and then the drunken Microsofties taulk it down highway 101 to Silicon Valley and they dumped it in the Netscape Fountain and staggered the way back to the hotel.
This time they may not have been drunk, but for me it sure looks like the same old Microsoft arrogance…
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