Interview with Microsoft cancelled – no point

February 16, 2010 | By Edward

Unfortunately, due to the fact that at the same time HTC press conference is taking place (stay tuned, we will bring you photos and video from it!), we were forced to cancel our one-on-one interview with Microsoft. Note also, that:

— generally in all other interviews and videos one can notice that Microsoft employees are not not answering the really important questions at Mobile World Congress anyway, so it was not point going there and hearing only marketing pep talk. PLEASE UNDERSTAND: MICROSOFT IS NOT ANSWERING REALLY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS HERE IN BARCELONA AT ALL.

— the version of Windows Phone 7 Series that is running in phones at Mobile World Congress is an extremely early alpha version that is unstable (it is very often crashing connection with display) and it is not final.

— Microsoft employees generally indicate that more will be known about Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX event in USA next month. This MIX event however is for developers and we expect that SDK and emulators will be released then for this new OS version. In other words: no real questions answered here in Barcelona anyway as Microsoft employees are pointing out at MIX.

— we have for you 28 minutes long video with demonstration of Windows Phone 7 features (yeah, we know, yet another video) but this one is taken by our reporter and it also gives interview about features

— today (Tuesday) is our last day at Mobile World Congress 2010 and we will be walking around and trying to snatch photos / videos of new Toshiba phones, to chat with SPB boys and generally looking around for Windows Mobile related stuff and booth babes.

Stay tuned! Our reporting from Mobile World Congress is not over yet and sorry for inconvenience.

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ali

i want to see htc hd mini, please.

Who?

Ew. Really? HVGA, 3.2 inch screen, 600mhz processor? In 2010?

Aarin

aww dat kinda sucks, but i agree and it make sense tho. Do what you must, and the more vids the merrier (not quite, but we'll take em anyway).
http://intensedebate.com/people/djguapo djguapo

Of course they cancelled on you, after that scathing and gramatically incorrect writeup you did on them, it's not surprising they don't want to talk to you.

Who?

Seriously? I guess I missed that. Linky?

Who?

Makes sense; in all the videos they kept saying we'll only show this and this until MIX, we'll talk more about X and Y at MIX.
guest 2

Can't wait to see your video. When and where will it be available?
Craig S

Just say that you wanted to see the HTC conference and that made the interview impossible.. except that doesn't make sense unless you only have one staff member there, and why would you have scheduled the interview for during the HTC event if you knew this conflict?

Just don't tell us that they won't answer "the important questions" so it doesn't make sense. That feels like an insult to your readers. Are you telling me that you are not imaginative enough to find anything to ask them besides the same "is there multitasking" question that everybody else has been on? They said wait for MiX for platform and development questions, are you saying there's nothing about yesterday's presentation you could find questions on? That is patently silly. I suppose interviews with the company that make the OS your blog is named after are a dime a dozen.. you get those everyday.

unless djguapo is right and they just don't want to talk to you anymore. They can't be fond of any blog that decided to attack my Vice President as "arrogant" because he mentioned his "hot blond" wife in passing.