Saturday, September 27, 2008

Microsoft: No plans for manufacturing handsets



Microsoft has been questioned repeatedly whether they would eventually jump into the handset manufacturers bandwagon. While there were no "clear" answers to this so far.. we seem to have seen a confirmation coming from the company. According to pocketpcthoughts, Microsoft's Scott Rockfeld, a senior figure in the company has confirmed that Microsoft has no such plans -- at least for the time being.

Microsoft says it is concentrating more on the OS part while leaving the hardware manufacturing part to its trusted partners. This is a similar to the stance taken by Google who is busy with Android while its partners take care about the handsets bit. However, Apple seems to belong to the "build your OS for your machine" school of thought.. a strategy which has worked for them!

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