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Microsoft hopes for iPhone and Android burial, pony

• mahmud 16y ago
  They could bury both with an Android/iOS plugin for Visual Studio. Make WinMo8 SDK a meta-API for mobile development. Wrap the fuck out of Android/iOS and bundle top-notch, win32-only emulators. They have an opportunity to be a wise-elder to the industry, if only they woke up and realized they're no longer the prizefighter, but an elder. With a move like that they can become a reference platform for mobile adoption; first in big business and government, then academia, and once the quality of their Qt-like API improves the game developers will start using it to push the envelope (remember when DirectX was laughed as full-screen GDI, and game developers still used their own hardware abstraction layers, by-passing Win16/32 for the tried and true power of DOS underneath?) [Edit: I must add that they might want to naturalize Symbian refugees. Grab the top 10 ten Symbian app vendors and offer them a migration route to WinMo, next comes J2ME which is effectively dead, thanks to Oracle's unapparent interest in mobile. Backward compatibility is something MS knows best. Take the refugees before they commit mass seppuku and offer them a new home. Take over StackOverflow or launch your own mobile Q&A site to centralize mobile development knowledge and keep it under your watch.]