Paul Thurrott's in-depth look at the pros and cons of Windows Phone

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As part of his extensive review of the Nokia Lumia 900, keen Microsoft watcher Paul Thurrott today takes a long look at the Windows Phone operating system. It's not restricted to the Lumia 900, this looks at the whole OS as it stands today, with the major faults and the silver linings all on display.

Take his look at the app situation. He's aready covered his though on apps and Windows Phone in a previous piece and while it is an issue, it's pushed aside smartly and fairly:

Thanks to clueless, ivory tower tech pundits and bloggers who can’t see past their own biases, many believe that Windows Phone and/or Nokia is doomed, and that a supposed lack of apps, or key apps, or certain apps, will carry this thing down just as surely as did the iceberg to the Titanic 100 years ago. But as with the causes of that actual disaster, things here aren’t so simple. And the supposed lack of apps is simply not a problem at all.

In fact, this is simply the new version of the “lack of cut and paste” argument from late 2010, a bogus criticism that one can easily toss out to try and discredit the product. But when you argue that things like this are a problem, you’re really just betraying a lack of sophistication. Cut and paste wasn’t a problem in late 2010. And apps are not a problem today.

Zune Pass

On the negative side Thurrott lists cloud support, full backups, background image uploading, service integration, hubs, and reliance on a PC; and he balances that with glance and go, pocket to picture, UI design, integrated experiences and not apps, service integration (yes it goes both ways), email, fast app switching, MS Office, Xbox Live and Zune Pass.

Read his detailed reasons over on the Supersite, and let us know what your "good news and bad news" would be about Windows Phone in the comments.

The biggest problem Windows Phone has, frankly, is perception. Thanks to clueless, ivory tower tech pundits and bloggers who can’t see past their own biases, many believe that Windows Phone and/or Nokia is doomed, and that a supposed lack of apps, or key apps, or certain apps, will carry this thing down just as surely as did the iceberg to the Titanic 100 years ago. But as with the causes of that actual disaster, things here aren’t so simple. And the supposed lack of apps is simply not a problem at all. In fact, this is simply the new version of the “lack of cut and paste” argument from late 2010, a bogus criticism that one can easily toss out to try and discredit the product. But when you argue that things like this are a problem, you’re really just betraying a lack of sophistication. Cut and paste wasn’t a problem in late 2010. And apps are not a problem today.

Source / Credit: Paul Thurrott (Supersite for Windows)