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Doug's Mailbag: Internet Doom and Gloom?, Win Phone 7 Annoyance

Here is some reader mail on the ultimate demise of IPv4 Internet addresses:

It is no different, Doug, than the switch to digital TV. It took the federal government setting a hard deadline to get the industry to make the move. Still, there are millions of analog TVs in the market that cable systems will have to support for the foreseeable future.

Millions were spent mitigating Y2K which would not have had to be spent if people had begun preparing for Y2K in the decades leading up to that hard deadline.

ISVs and OEMS slowness to adopt to Vista was what ultimately doomed that OS.

When they have to switch to IPv6, the will – and not a minute sooner. Will it cost millions more than it should? Yes! Late adopters invariably cost themselves millions more than they save by putting off the introduction of new technology.
-Marc

Internet Service Providers are not ready to support IPv6 to customers. I have talked with my AT&T representative many times about IPv6 and if they had it on their core network. They don't and are not supporting it yet.

SOOOO, this is a no starter for those with service providers that don't support it yet.
-Daryl

Here's one reader's preliminary complaint on the Windows Phone 7 platform:

I believe I have had every version of Windows Mobil released. For Microsoft to say Windows Phone 7 won't allow me to use my own flash card and not allow me to browse the phone from my own computer (so I could put my own songs on or grab my own pics without going through their network) really rubs me wrong. They are bound and determined to lose long-time customers like myself.
-Bill

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Posted by Doug Barney on August 09, 2010


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