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Microsoft Pursues WebOS Devs, Offers Free Phones
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."
The two words I have to offer Microsoft are GIVE and UP. Windows does not work well on a phone, it never has and never will. Microsoft is trying to be all things to all people and doing so at the suffering quality of their flagship products. I have to maintain a Windows 2008 SBS Server and network. Every time there is a Windows Update, I lose the correct TCP/IP settings and DHCP gets corrupted. This means that I have to put the correct TCP/IP settings in, remove and re-add the DHCP server role, and then run the Fix My Network Wizard. It is too bad that Microsoft does a whole lot of little things half-assed instead of a few things very well.