I think this is confusion between "shipping" and "sold." The former are reflected in sales figures 3 months hence, the latter on the past. Comparing those can be deceiving. That said, if Win7 is going to be more than a #3 or #4 also-ran, it will have to offer something that the others don't. So far that hasn't happened. The best thing they could do IMHO is get IronPython to run natively on Win7: that would almost immediately open up the platform to the Python programmers of the world: Python is #5 on Tiobe, by a few hundreths of a percent behind #6, C#. And in the past year Python has actually gained ground on C#: at last year's rate, Python will be #5 in a few months to C#'s #6, if that long. Making life easy for developers is the best way to get more apps, faster, on the platform.

Hank

>>>>>I love Windows Phone 7 and think not only is it a game changer, but will be the preeminent platform in the not so distant future.
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>>>Nice article, and I quite like the WP7 as well... but preeminence seems unlikely. Earlier predictions of millions of Windows Phone 7 sales in the first few days did not come true. MS now says that only 1.5M devices were sold in the first 6 weeks. This compares to 3M iPhones in its first 3 weeks on the market.... and more than 300,000 Android devices being activated daily, meaning that another 12M Android devices were activated during WP7's initial sales frenzy. On that basis, WP7 is well behind Android and falling further behind every day. So if MS and its fans have something up their sleeves to justify the sunny confidence, IMHO they'd better reveal it ASAP.
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>>Thanks. There was a blog post recently where the blogger looked at the sales figures quoted by both apple and android and showed how they were skewed. You'll have to search to find it, I don't remember where it was but it was within the last month. The gist was, if they are selling what they report, then everyone in the US would have and android now, and everyone in the wold in a couple of years...
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>Any reason to guess MS numbers are more based on fact *besides* the fact that they are much lower ?