Over at Pocket Lint there is an interesting interview with Greg Sullivan, the Senior Product manager for Windows Phone detailing why Microsoft has decided to continue down the route of an entirely separate operating system for phones rather than using Windows RT. Sullivan states that he believes that the phone is “unique enough to devote a specific effort… and differentiating that”, going on to make comparisons to the most successful tablet on the market at this time: “When I use an iPad I think it’s a really pleasurable experience, it’s a great consumption device, but I constantly run into guardrails. I want to connect a USB mass storage, oh I can't. I want to print to a printer other than the one Lexmark or whatever, I can't
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Greg Sullivan: Why Windows Phone 8 is not a phone version of Windows 8 (RT)