Windows Phone Thoughts: MS Senior VP Addresses Value Proposition of Windows Mobile vs Blackberry

"...of course this audience, particularly from a personal usage standpoint, is a challenging one for us. It's the one that uses a lot of BlackBerry products, and I'm going to spend a little bit of time talking about how we're going to compete for mobile information workers, such as many of you sitting in this room. And there are many elements to that competition, the first of which is a focus on how do we do as a business and how our business model works."

Continuing on the Windows Mobile vs Blackberry theme, this is a pretty lengthy transcription from Pieter Knook, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Mobile / Embedded Devices Division & Communications Sector. There is an accompanying PowerPoint presentation and an actual webcast of the speech made during the July 28th financial analysts meeting. Pieter touches on a number of sub-topics but pays some extra attention to the business model variance between Microsoft and RIM. Take a look and give us your thoughts. I can tell you from a corporate standpoint that the upcoming showdown between these two is HIGHLY anticipated!