Hot in Windows phone 7

Microsoft often throws around the phrase "it just works" as a design goal for a new piece of software. In practice, however, the products rarely live up to that billing. That said, Microsoft appears to be pretty close with Windows Phone 7.

Although the software is not final and it is running on prototype hardware (in my case the Samsung Taylor), its clean look isn't interrupted by error messages, hiccups, or other form breaks.
Above all, Windows Phone 7 is--dare I say--elegant. Even my foreign-language spam looks beautiful on the device. It almost makes me wish I understood all those messages in Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.
Its beauty is more than skin deep, too.

Windows Phone 7, One of the things I demand in a phone is that it behave like a portable consumer electronic device, not like a tiny computer. It should be instant on, easy to navigate without too much thought, and hide nearly all its complexity. To me that's what made the original iPhone and all its successors such a hit. (It's also why I think the iPad poses a serious challenge in the market for highly portable computing, but that's another story.)
With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft doesn't make up for all of its years of lost ground in this area, but what it does, it does very well.