Getting chased out the door by creatures resembling Microsoft software icons, is not my idea of a pleasant experience. In fact, I’ll be honest and say that it’d be pretty scary.

Here’s an advertisement depicting this exact situation albeit with lovey-dovey music in the background. This is Microsoft’s way of advertising the new Windows Phone operating system for mobile devices.

Does it do bad things for you too?

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Here’s a video of Microsoft’s answer to the iPhone OS and they’ve dubbed it “Windows Phone” – no longer Windows Mobile. If we’re still talking Windows Mobiles versions, this would have been version 6.5.

I like how they’ve fixed the Start Menu, which although previously aesthetically consistent with the PC operating system, for the small screen it was hard to select options and was sometimes confusing. The new large icon approach is much more intuitive and simpler to use.

Also like the “My Phone” functionality which backs up all your data to some off site server which allows for easily data upload / download and also re-setup of new Windows devices.

Overall, some great changes and I hope to be able to test this out more thoroughly in the upcoming months.

What are your thoughts?

Via MobileWhack