I am definitely interested in seeing where this is going, but I doubt I'll have one of these Windows 7 Series Phone Human Ear Edition devices (or whatever it's called), as they still plan to exclude the Mac platform. It's their choice to make, but I abandoned their desktop platform over 6 years ago, and a new phone isn't going to pull me back.

Dumping the entire OS and starting from scratch is what they needed to do, and I'm glad they finally felt the competitive pressure to do such a drastic thing. Microsoft does some of their best work when they are legitimately trying to compete in a market, and do their worst when they have killed off the competition. It's a shame they don't see the need to do this on the desktop side though. Windows 7 is still just lipstick on a pig, much like their Windows Mobile 6.5 efforts.