Another worthy point (with Textmaker at least, the others too I think) is that Textmaker resides on a storage card.
What I mean by that is that if you hard reset your device or even install a new rom, everything required for Textmaker remains. Hence, I create a shortcut with ilauncher, export ilauncher settings and after hard reset/new rom I load and import ilauncher and old ilauncher settings. There’s no need to load Textmaker again. (Which admittedly is a good thing since last time I looked there was no cab file support.) There aren’t alot of programs that fully reside on a storage card like that. Aside from Textmaker, U-book and Pocketbible will as well.

JonW, you are correct, I too believe that from strictly a functionality standpoint this would work for many people. Email, office docs and internet. That pretty much sums it up for many folks.

The kicker is getting a WM form factor that will work too, which is the hard part. Many will be put off by having to use a phone for their work and won’t like to use an external keyboard to get lots of work done. I’ll tell you one thing though, the Celio Redfly paired with a device running SoftMaker’s suite would be more than adequate for many.

Given what you say about this perhaps we should be looking at WM as the alternative OS to vista on UMPCs/ULCPCs/whatever you want to call them? With the latest version of Opera and a third party email it seem to me that it would meet most people’s mobile needs quite capably.