{"id":505763,"date":"2010-04-02T15:19:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=15031"},"modified":"2010-04-02T15:19:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:19:34","slug":"microsoft-drops-the-series-in-windows-phone-7-series-now-only-windows-phone-7-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/505763","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft drops the Series in Windows Phone 7 Series.  Now only Windows Phone 7 Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D15031\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D15031&amp;source=WMPoweruser&amp;style=normal&amp;service=bit.ly\" height=\"61\" width=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/wp7noseries.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"wp7noseries\" border=\"0\" alt=\"wp7noseries\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/wp7noseries_thumb.png\" width=\"624\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Demonstrating again either responsiveness or a lack of proper market research (why don&#8217;t they just ask the users?) Microsoft has <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/windowsphone\/status\/11493142530\" >announced via their official twitter channel<\/a> that their new mobile OS will in fact be called Windows Phone 7, dropping the Series moniker.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The Series were meant to indicate a call of devices, with Windows Phone Classic being the current <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=windows-mobile-65\" >Windows Mobile 6.5<\/a> and presumably Windows Phone 8 Series being the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>Shortening the name does of course help, but does little to address the isse of the word Phone appearing twice when you talk about a specific device ie. Windows <strong>Phone<\/strong> 7 <strong>Phone. <\/strong>I eagerly await the return of the much more elegant <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=windows-mobile-7\" >Windows Mobile 7<\/a>, a label we know Microsoft still uses liberally internally.<\/p>\n<p>What do your readers think of the new name?&#160; Let us know below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-6210711459792056\";\n\/* 200x90, created 7\/11\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3982720420\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 200;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrating again either responsiveness or a lack of proper market research (why don&#8217;t they just ask the users?) Microsoft has announced via their official twitter channel that their new mobile OS will in fact be called Windows Phone 7, dropping the Series moniker.&#160; The Series were meant to indicate a call of devices, with Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}