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Microsoft Pursues WebOS Devs, Offers Free Phones

Posted by timothy on from the worth-it-at-twice-the-price dept.

CWmike writes "Taking advantage of Hewlett-Packard's departure from the tablet and smartphone market, Microsoft has offered webOS developers free phones, tools and training to create apps for Windows Phone 7. Brandon Watson, Microsoft's senior director of Windows Phone 7 development, made the offer on Twitter on Friday, and has been fielding queries ever since. 'To Any Published WebOS Devs: We'll give you what you need to be successful on #WindowsPhone, incl. free phones, dev tools, and training, etc.,' Watson said a day after HP's announcement. Before Friday was out, Watson said he had received more than 500 emails from interested developers, and later, that the count was closing in on 600."

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  1. Microsoft's Cellphone OS Marketshare Is Plummeting by VisibleSchlong · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://ir.comscore.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=596854

    Only the effectively dead Symbian is keeping Microsoft out of last place in the cellphone market right now.

    Free stuff is nice, but developers aren't going to waste their time on a dying platform like Windows Phone 7.