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[msmobiles.com_robot]

Surrounded by thick layers of yes-sayers (like some MVPs for example), Microsoft sometimes fails to notice the obvious:

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[netboy]

it just depends on what u use your mobile device for! i'm able to go back to WM5.0, but i dont want to! I like wm6.0 better on tytn/hymes!

[TcT]

Why would somebody first start the messaging application to create a message?
In the contacts you have texting, email, phone united in one piece.

[adamz]

[smthng]

It really sounds like people are making things way harder than they need to be just in order to have something to blog about.

First, on both my WM6 Dash and my WM5 Blackjack, I delete WAY more email messages than I write. Having the delete on the Dash as a one button press is pretty good IMO. It would be nicer to be able to CHOOSE what you want the left soft button to do, but I guess you can't have everything at once. In short, just because the way you do something (and I'm not referring to any one individual in particular) isn't the way other people do things doesn't mean it's a bad design implementation to set it up one way or the other.

Second, for sending messages, my WM5 and WM6 devices do it pretty much the same way unless you WANT to do it the long way.... Why would you want to launch anything for messaging, using either version? From the home screen, start typing the recipient's name. Once you've typed enough to highlight the contact, open it. Scroll down to "Send an email". Press the button. Done! Sure, if you WANT to go through the whole process of opening the messaging client and adding the recipient you can, but it seems like going around your posterior to get to your elbow.

You can make it even shorter if you are into the whole "expert-level efficiency" club... Chances are you're sending messages to the same people on a fairly regular basis. Assign a speed dial to them. Almost every WM5 and WM6 device has 100 of them available. To SMS my wife, I press and hold ONE button (4)! Email... Three buttons (41 Enter). Secondary email... Three buttons (42 Enter). If that's too complicated, don't message people.

[adamz]

[gilesjuk]

Microsoft often does what they think is right and ignores the competition. They're offering an iPod amnesty to their employees, which sums them up.

[bbf]

Boo hoo, I have to press two buttons instead of one, boo hoo.

So for some people the change makes their lives just a little bit easier, and others it makes them a little harder... not enough to desereve a "dig" at "yes men" in the community. Like it's actually in Microsoft's intere$t to use the MVP's advice over internal useability studies with focus groups, or feedback from corporate clients.

[peterw]

MS are clueless when it come to designing software for usability. I can't get over how complex switching OFF the HTC Wizard is. In bright sunlight you can't read the screen to see if its off or not. Fail to switch the phone off before the battery goes flat, results in a phone that can't be charged except with the official charger. Do it on holiday when you only have a standard USB charger means -no phone for a week.

Whats wrong with the traditional 'hold the power button for a few seconds to switch off'?

[Verizy]

[peterw]

[TomH]