Why Windows Phone 7 will be Good for Android

Yesterday, Microsoft launched their new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7.  As a former enterprise network administrator, and Windows Mobile user, I can tell you that Microsoft does have a place in the smartphone world.  Redmond fell asleep at the wheel on their mobile development over the last 6-7 years and let RIM and Apple come in and essentially run them out of the mobile game.  With Apple’s “fenced in” strategy, many power users who resist that model were left with few viable options in the way of hand-held devices.  Google acknowledged this opportunity in 2005 by purchasing Android Inc.  It wasn’t until October of 2008 that we were able to purchase the first available Android device.  According to a report released by the NPD group, Android accounted for 33 precent of the smartphone sales last quarter.  For an operating system that was only released two years ago, that is an impressive figure to say the least.

Andy Rubin, vice president of Engineering at Google, was quoted recently as saying the following regarding WP7:
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