I agree that full SkyDrive integration with Office Web Apps is pretty important considering it’s consumer focused. SharePoint is clearly aimed at business users, which they don’t want to neglect either I suppose.

With regards to photo syncing, what I meant was that KIN would automatically sync full resolution photos to the web over the air, which is incredibly useful. Windows Phone will sync only low-res photos over the air to SkyDrive, which is barely useful (like if you want to just share over social networking) to useless (for true backup purposes, as was available on KIN).

I will (hopefully) be completing the Office chapter today, so I will soon look at the Office document sync stuff more closely. But I think this applies only to two things. You can do full sync via SharePoint only, which works just fine, but is a business feature. And you can sync notes in OneNote automatically to SkyDrive (but not Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, or PowerPoint presentations). I would love to be proven wrong on this, since I feel that full SkyDrive integration is as important/more important than SharePoint on day one. But I will make sure.

Obviously you have ore details than what is available publicly, However while playing around with the beta version of the emulator, there is an option for office documents to sync back to the cloud.

Also during the presentation at WPC, they mention that higher resolution images will be synced back once you are plugged. The lower res images is for OTA syncing:
http://digitalwpc.com/Videos/VisionKeynoteVideos10/2/BradBrooksAndAndyLees

There is a KIN-like auto-save-to-SkyDrive feature for photos. Sadly, it’s almost useless for backup since you can’t opt to save full-res pictures. Which is absolutely unforgivable. A couple of other things related to this, but I’m not sure it’s public.

My guess is that they’re moving toward a KIN Studio model, but it won’t be there on day one, not like was on the KIN.

It seems MS has finally found a way to integrate all of their Products in the cloud and on the phone(Xbox, Office, Zune, Windows Live.) And from the looks of the previews and announcements, it seems to be in a more cohesive manner than Google or Apple…. I wonder if Microsoft will get any credit for this..hmmm(try not to laugh)…

I wanted to clarify something for someone… According to Mary Jo Foley(and confirmed by MS) The Windows Phone LIve product doesn’t make use of the Kin Studio yet… (SEE: Microsoft to offer free ‘Find My Phone’ service for Windows Phone 7 | ZDNet http://bit.ly/cXAC6l ) Although wouldn’t it be cool if a hardware maker made a phone targeted at the same KIN demo but with a more full featured phone, and Used KIN studio(once it had been made available for WP7)…just a thought!

Keep up the good work!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Paul.

So given all the wonderful features of the OS, the big question is what are the Samsungs, Motorolas, and HTC’s etc. gonna look and work like? Will they be up to to the job at hand, or will it take another year for the vendors to sort their bugs out?

I’m actually building an Core i7 desktop with Windows 7 specifically for Windows Phone 7 syncing.