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   Verily I say unto thee, that Flint spake thusly:   
   > On 2/14/2011 10:44 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> In message, Sinister Midget III wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 1. Microsoft has been dealing with a "phone" OS for a long time.   
   >>> Android started from nothingness. Windows Phone, while a new   
   >>> iteration, isn't really new. It's had a lot of years to get a head   
   >>> start to end up so far behind.   
   >>   
   >> I think it’s still built on an underlying Windows Mobile kernel. And   
   >> furthermore one with a version number something like 6.6, not even   
   >> 7.0.   
   >>   
   >> Yup, just like “Windows Seven” wasn’t really version 7.0 of anything,   
   >> neither is “Windows Phone 7”.   
   >   
   > Actually, that was a mistake on the naming of WP7.  It should have   
   > been called "Windows Phone >'07<".   
      
   And DooFy had the gall to criticise GNU/Linux projects' version number   
   conventions. They should have numbered it Windows Phone 0.0.7, given its   
   clearly incomplete state.   
      
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