Today I looked at this website. Looks cool and shows that Microsoft is ramping up quite nicely to the introduction of Phone 7. So I went along and clicked on the shop now button in the left below corner of the page:
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This brought me to a page listing all countries that have “Windows Phones” available. So I clicked “Netherlands”. The next page was Dutch, *but no reference at all to Windows Phone 7*. It still advertises Windows Mobile 6.5.
My next action was to go back to the page with the all the countries listed and clicked “United States”. This showed me again a nice page and I clicked on the link in the left below corner:
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A new page opened, showing me:
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Oh and by the way, if you click “Belgium and Luxemburg (Dutch)”, there is a reference to Windows Phone 7:
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*Sigh* How hard is it to get these things right? Just show me a page explaining in which regions it will or will not be available after launch, together with a timeline. I am sure you can do that stunningly in Silverlight. This way of marketing and communicating is strange and shows no understanding of your (global) clients.
