Microsoft Reportedly Seeks To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices

quantr draws your attention to a Bloomberg report that Microsoft has reached out to HTC to see if the company would be interested in adding Windows as a second OS to its Android handsets. From the Bloomberg story: "Its willingness to add Windows as a second operating system underscores the lengths to which Microsoft will go to get manufacturers to carry its software. HTC, the first company to make both Windows and Android phones, hasn’t unveiled a new Windows-based handset since June and has no current plans to release any more, said one person. Microsoft, with 3.7 percent of the market, is finding it necessary to make concessions after agreeing to acquire Nokia Oyj’s handset unit, which competes with other smartphone makers. [Microsoft operating systems head Terry] Myerson was planning to visit Asia this month and meet with senior executives at Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC to discuss his proposal, one of the people said."

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chickens roosting

[globaljustin]

Microsoft's chickens are coming home to roost and I absolutely love watching it happen...M$ is desperate...this shows how much...

Their OS's are horrible products. From the 80s to now, Windows has been generic level quality at best.

Their business model, since the 80s, has been to bottleneck features and kill interoperability to **force** users to use their software.

This is the result of having that business model. Anyone in business who has the same model (facebook.com, etc) will, with certainty, suffer the same fate eventually.

Microsoft is now a digital beggar of a company...