Windows Phone Thoughts: ZDNet Australia: "Can Windows Mobile Squash BlackBerry?"

"Microsoft admits Research in Motion's BlackBerry device dominates the market in handheld e-mail provision, but contends its own solution can cut costs for enterprises -- a claim RIM denies. "Research in Motion is obviously a core competitor in the mobile information space, and you could say they've done a good job of owning that environment," Microsoft's Pieter Knook said during a recent visit to Sydney. The US-based executive is senior vice president, mobile and embedded devices and communications division. John Hennessey, his counterpart in Australia, agreed with Knook and further admitted his company's Windows Mobile solution had so far "struggled" to gain mindshare with management-level executives."

ZDNet Australia has a good article on the whole Windows Mobile vs. BlackBerry debate. It goes into the apparent ups and downs of deploying a BlackBerry environment and Windows Mobile environment - if you read the article, you'll see that a lot of it is actually PR speak, but there is some element of truth to it. ;-) So the question remains - can Windows Mobile squash BlackBerry? Your thoughts?

Note: Now that an update has been posted, please make all Windows Mobile vs. BlackBerry comments in the latest thread.