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In previous weeks, Neowin has been reporting on f-people-wont-upgrade-to-wp7" target="_blank">Microsoft’s newly released mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7. In the tech world, people were flocking to see what all the fuss was about, inevitably some loved it and some thought it would fall flat on its face.

There were a lot of techies claiming WP7 would have a real chance at contending against Android, some went so far to claim that they thought it could even possibly rival Apple’s iPhone. It’s fair to say that the iPhone influenced the ever-growing public’s interest for smartphones and as the iPhone had such a large piece of f-people-wont-upgrade-to-wp7" target="_blank">market share it would take a lot to overthrow it.

The question is did Microsoft actually arrive too late? Neowin decided to try and find out.

In a survey taken, exclusively to Neowin, participants were asked seven questions each. A small sample was polled and the results calculated. The results themselves shown interesting figures and proposed f-people-wont-upgrade-to-wp7" target="_blank">WP7 may be popular with tech users, but not so popular with an ‘average Joe’. A total of 38% of the people polled claimed they owned an iPhone. Furthermore 68% of the participants said they preferred the iOS interface over WP7’s. Not the best result for Microsoft so far, but wait, it gets worse. Although 68% preferred the iOS interface, 58% said they would purchase a phone solely on the interface over other attributes, such as MP camera, memory size and size of the devices screen. Are these the type of statistics Microsoft was getting in their design stages? Microsoft soon hit a statistic that got more than half of the majority.  48% stated they preferred less apps with a nicer interface, which with Microsoft app store predicted to quickly overtake Apple’s in quantity may be a relief. Numerous people have claimed the iPhone’s popularity grew from more the desire to have a phone that was cool, for which friends would have been a big influence. The statistics disagreed with that conclusion – 85% said their friends didn’t have any influence on what type of phone they possessed. Additionally, the same number of 85% of people said they kept themselves updated with the technology they owned. Why isn’t the response we’re getting positive? Is it because they don’t know the benefits and negatives over iOS? The final statistic and possibly the most eyebrow raising, listed that a mere 32% of people would upgrade to a WP7 device from their current phone.

Neowin has the complete article f-people-wont-upgrade-to-wp7" title="Survey: 68% of people won't upgrade to WP7">HERE!