Don’t think for a minute that Microsoft is ignoring the iPhone. In fact, the software giant is probing the gadget for profit opportunities.
For a little more than a week, a team of the company’s Silicon Valley software engineers has been examining the iPhone software development kit (SDK for short), a set of tools Apple (AAPL) released this month that let outsiders build software for the iPhone and the iPod touch. Microsoft (MSFT) executives aren’t sure yet whether they’ll find worthwhile opportunities to sell iPhone software – but they seem eager to find out.
“It’s really important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone,” Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group, told Fortune on Monday. “To the extent that Mac Office customers have functionality that they need in that environment, we’re actually in the process of trying to understand that now.”
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For a little more than a week, a team of the company’s Silicon Valley software engineers has been examining the iPhone software development kit (SDK for short), a set of tools Apple (AAPL) released this month that let outsiders build software for the iPhone and the iPod touch. Microsoft (MSFT) executives aren’t sure yet whether they’ll find worthwhile opportunities to sell iPhone software – but they seem eager to find out.
“It’s really important for us to understand what we can bring to the iPhone,” Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group, told Fortune on Monday. “To the extent that Mac Office customers have functionality that they need in that environment, we’re actually in the process of trying to understand that now.”
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I hope that they will also evaluate what they could bring to WM from the iPhone.
This phonecall could be to a dangerous person, or an evil robot, are you SURE you want to continue?
This phonecall could be to a dangerous person, or an evil robot, are you SURE you want to continue?
Eh the phone already runs as root so no need to worry about that
This phonecall could be to a dangerous person, or an evil robot, are you SURE you want to continue?
Eh the phone already runs as root so no need to worry about that
Even when running as root, you have to click on the annoying UAC prompts!
How's this suit you for hype?
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now what's wrong there is that you feel that you need hype to make a good product. the zune is an excellent product. it's interface is clean, smart, and simple. i like the software as well, i just wish they would be able to get it so winamp supports the zune, just the software i'm used to using. and lastly, i've had mine now for 4 months, and there's not a single scratch on it (i don't use a case either). the material they use is so much more effective than other players (hint, specifically the one you're probably advocating). my old ipod became so scratched up, i had to switch....... to a zune.......
LOL market hype is the by-product of marketting success, in my opinion. I am not an iPod or iRaq fan.
Maybe because it's not available in Europe, yet?
Really, because they are all over the place in the USA
Maybe because it's not available in Europe, yet?
Only place that I have ever seen them was a year and a half ago in a custom-free zone at an airport in europe, so obvesly they are in europe
IMO you should refrain from posting such nonsence!
Good for Microsoft - instead of trying to compete with the iPhone with a device that will more than likely fail they are embracing it!
For some funny reason, that just sounds so dirty lol.
I found it even funnier yesterday when I read that apple originally bought the base code from microsoft, haha so all in all the 2 companies are very close
No it would be crazy for Microsoft not to disect the iphone and copy it. Mobiles are the future, and the big players are staking their claims now. Apple changed things when they brought the iPhone out. It opened the flood gates and now the real fun begins. Welcome to the future because this is the next big tech evolution.
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They're going to decompile header files and documentation?
What would that achieve? MS already have an OS that runs on mobile phones.
Microsoft will start producing phones after they start manufacturing PCs.
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