Windows Phone 7 wins Operating System of the Year 2011 award

November 26, 2011 | By Surur

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Windows Phone 7 has won the Know Your Mobile Operating System of the Year 2011 award.

The OS won the category on the strength of its now widely emulated Metro OS with its easily customisable start screen, which is focused on putting people.

The system won plaudits for having a unique tile-based look which stepped away from the sea of isolated uninformative icons used by other smartphone operating systems while integrating experiences come from third party developers and from across Microsoft’s suite of products including Xbox LIVE, Microsoft Office 2010, Zune, Windows Live, Bing and more.

The judges noted:
‘It has the most potential, with a unique interface and a rapidly growing apps selection. It has a great looking UI and doesn’t look like Android or iOS.’

‘A massive move from the previous OS. Huge growth in apps and the system looks heaps better than the competition.’

‘Innovative interface, with more success to come.’

‘A refreshing OS that doesn’t try and copy other operating systems. Has attracted a large number of developers too.’

The runner ups on this category were Blackberry 7 and Samsung Bada.

Via WPCentral.com

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Anonymous

Microsoft needs to market more aggressively and get market share! Then we will see the true winner come to light.

http://twitter.com/Zarniw0Op Philip Gould

Aye, when I go into Carrier shops all I see is huge Apple displays, no Windows Phone ones at all, it’s also the same with websites. Microsoft Marketing need to adapt thir strategy and start marketing this phone properly, or senior management need to make changes to Microsoft Marketing so that they will adapt and quick!

Anonymous

“The runner ups on this category were Blackberry 7 and Samsung Bada”? Really? Bada? I don’t like it but I’ll still admit iOS is most popular for a reason!

Still, props to WP7! Keep the good times rolling!

Anonymous

Same thing I was thinking. I was going to tweet this but those runner ups stopped me…
Anonymous

Actually, Android has passed ios now
http://freddyt333.myopenid.com/ Son of Kruegerman

Have you tried either a BlackBerry 7 or a bada device?

Anonymous

Ya, with their 5% market share, I think consumers disagree

Poecifer

Your average consumer is much more prone to marketing than quality.
http://www.gadgeterija.net Denis Jelec

Awareness of consumers (yes, you read that right) makes it less of a good operating system HOW exactly?

Anonymous

Even the “best product” is nothing unless ppl want it and buy it. That’s “HOW exactly”…

http://www.gadgeterija.net Denis Jelec

…and is related to this award HOW exactly?

P.S. Let me remind you, you stated that consumers “disagree” with this while it certainly isn’t the case – now you turned your thoughts onto something else – that “even the best product” is nothing blah blah. Then, read my other question (which is basically the first one, contextually).

http://twitter.com/sillyandlazy home comp

5%? More like 1%.

http://twitter.com/travisnew87 Travis New

They lost credibility when they said BB7 & Bada were runner ups. I get WP7 winning or coming second because it is an amazing OS. But clearly iOS, Android & Wp7 are the top players & as such this competition should’ve reflected that.
http://www.facebook.com/harald.engels Harald Engels

How desperate things are for Microsoft’s mobile OS is proven by the fact that an irrelevant award from an irrelevant website makes it into the news.

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