Monkey see, monkey poo

Emil Protalinski has a column in ars technica about the recent Microsoft catch-up: "Just days after the launch of Apple's App Store, Microsoft has put up a website that attempts to compete. I say 'attempts', because the new portal, which is powered by Silverlight, looks very rushed. The site, dubbed Windows Mobile Applications under the slogan DO MORE, aims to promote most of the applications currently available for Windows Mobile (estimated to be something like 18,000). Applications are still being added. The problem is that Microsoft is trying a little too hard: it brought Mr. Flashy along for the ride, and left Mr. Usability behind."

Rico says Mr. Flashy was somewhere around employee number three at Microsoft...