Microsoft is Now Luring WebOS Devs by Offering Free Phones, Training and Tools

Saad Qazi / News Reviews Category / 22nd August, 2011 / 0 Comments
Microsoft is Now Luring WebOS Devs by Offering Free Phones, Training and Tools

In our previous posts we have told you about the HP’s new strategy; stop manufacturing all the hardware business and just going for enterprises. So, the webOS devices will be discontinues and the webOS app developers would be a little worried about their future. After the discontinuation of webOS hardware, they are offered to work for Microsoft and start creating apps for Windows Phone 7 instead of webOS apps.

Senior Director of Windows Phone 7, Brandon Watson said in his tweet that he will personally assist the developer coming from webOS to port their software to Windows Phone 7 by providing them tools, training and also free phones.Brendon Watson Webos

Keep in mind that the webOS operating system will not be completely killed. HP is just stopping the manufacturing devices running on webOS. So HP has decided to give webOS to the third party phone makers, but as they know that their own devices were not that popular so they are not expecting any major companies to get on board with them. So the stake holders of webOS should start looking somewhere else for their own good, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is not that popular yet, but in this short time it has done so much better than the webOS could ever done.

Brandon Watson is a friendly man and he is replying personally on twitter to the developers, even the developers are contacting him on his personal phone too. Microsoft’s this strategy is going pretty well, and there not much webOS developers, but if they join Microsoft, the growth will be significant in the future. According to Watson, developers also pretty much important part of the system and are necessary that’s why this much attention is being given to them.

 

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