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Microsoft is in the phone business too.
by vilaca 8y ago
Microsoft is in the phone business too.
- faag36 8y agoThey gave up on mobile years ago. Both hw and sw.
- iwaffles 8y agoNot entirely true. They shifted focus on mobile to continue making mobile software for other OSes.
- faag36 8y agoWe were talking about Windows Phone, not Outlook for iOS or stuff like that.
- rijoja 8y agoWhich makes it interesting for them to have an OS that won't lock particular software out in a play akin to what MS is trying to to to Valve by using their monopoly, a dogmatic Richard Stallman approach to this would ironically save them from that.
- Sileni 8y agoStill? I thought they had spun off their mobile hardware division and were instead mostly focusing on mobile software. Would make some sense for them to try to do the same thing they did with PCs and IBM back in the day, since the OS is already open source (mostly).
- mikhailt 8y agoThe rumors are they're still doing one last ditch, Surface Phone due to the growing Surface ecosystem that is making them money and people liking it so far. However, they're not going to release that until they finish the CShell that they're working on the past several years.
- macintux 8y agoIs Surface making money or just stemming the bleeding?
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- et2o 8y agoMicrosoft is doing pretty well financially. MSFT stock is up 50% ($75-->$113) YTD.
- bitmapbrother 8y agoThat's a ridiculous rumor that is perpetuated by windows phone fans that can't accept the reality of their favorite company failed so miserably in mobile. There will never be another Windows phone because no one would buy it and no developer would develop for it.
- bitmapbrother 8y ago>I thought they had spun off their mobile hardware division Is "spun off" code for they took a 10 billion dollar loss on it and shut it down?
- bunderbunder 8y agoSort of. They're in the process of exiting the market. No new phones being manufactured as of about a year ago, and support is ending at the end of next year.
- amelius 8y agoYes that's why they said "2". (Google is in the spyware market, hence cannot be taken seriously).
- bitmapbrother 8y agoThe real spyware company is Microsoft. 1. They own part of Facebook. 2. They operate an ad company 3. They target their users 4. They steal data from their users Windows PC's and call it "Telemetry" 5. They advertise in their own OS 6. They preinstal bloatware on their own OS 7. They own Linked In (the Facebook of resume's) and data mine their users. 8. They were the first to sign up with the NSA in 2007 9. They operate data centers in China operated by state run companies that give their users data to the Chinese government. When it comes to spyware, Microsoft has you covered.