Microsoft Rumored To Integrate Android Apps

phmadore writes "Windows Phone has been struggling for market share, largely due to a serious lack of developers willing to invest their time in what one might consider a niche market. Statistically speaking, Android has more than 1.1M apps to Windows Phone's 200,000+. Well, according to unnamed sources informing the Verge, Microsoft may soon integrate/allow Android applications into both Windows and Windows Phone." This follows the recent debate over whether Microsoft should try to fork Android. Peter Bright made the point that doing so would be extremely difficult, and probably not worth Microsoft's time. Ben Thompson has an insightful post about how Microsoft's real decision is whether to focus on devices or services.

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Re:Security

[Anonymous Coward]

Security? On a Windows platform?

Yes. What's actually wrong with it? You can parrot memes from over a decade ago but in reality the modern Windows platforms are actually very secure, the real security threat these days is the user - and that's a problem no matter what platform they are using. We see Windows on the desktop and Android on mobile being the primary bastions of "security flaws" but this is because they have the biggest userbases and obviously it is most profitable to hit the largest userbase with social engineering attacks.