graeme_p - 3:36 am on Aug 2, 2011 (gmt 0)

No, it was mostly to do with .net and the system developed on top of it - but as MS was heavily involved in developing the system it was here fault anyway. It was also supposed to be a showcase for Windows ability to scale....

I just discovered that WebOS seems to be the most flexible mobile OS. You do not need to root it to get root (just install the SDK), and they support installing Linux packages, and even provide a full package manager. It might be less open source than Android, but its more open from a user point of view.