Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
The only way to answer every single question is by releasing the beta, which is already announced to be February 29th. For the ARM questions, those devices simply aren't ready yet. But when they are, they'll go to the right people who report on this stuff, people like Paul and Mary Jo, and they can explore to their hearts' content and answer every single question they want answered..
I don't disagree with most of your stuff. They don't have to know, and it is sort of begging even from me in this thread. I'll fully admit that.
That being said at least on the ARM front, if that stuff isn't ready by MWC then MS has problems. Hate on us all for saying the obvious, but MS can't afford to wait till say April or May for all of the ARM stuff considering we all know Apple is about to own the mind share of people again her in early March with iPad 3 stuff. MS can't afford to let Apple just roll through another high profile product release cycle.
I think the same hold trues for Windows Phone is Apple comes again in say June with the iPhone 5 while MS is focusing on Tango hardware for the world. If we get an iPhone 5 this summer and MS is banking on the fall for Windows Phone 8 "Apollo" stuff I just don't see how this all plays out well for MS.
Microsoft needs to announce before the Apple event especially since they're the underdog in tablets.
Once the iPad 3 is announced there's going to be non-stop tech coverage on it for like two months straight and no other stories will be able to attract attention. At least if MS gets the jump on Apple, all the iPad 3 writeups will also be mentioning Microsoft's tablet strategy and comparing it with Windows 8 etc.
I like this theory. MS needs to say something big at MWC to get in the mindshare before so at least they are out there in the tech coverage.