Microsoft should switch to using modified version of Android on their … – InfoMoney

SAO PAULO – A study by research firms showed that Microsoft’s mobile platforms, including Windows Phone and Windows Mobile 10 shall count with 77 million users. Seems like a lot at first, but that’s the number of iPhone units sold in only one quarter of this year.

As Business Insider explains, a way to reverse this situation would be to create an adapted version of Android for use on their phones – and it’s something quite simple. The Android source code is available under open source license, making it impossible only that Microsoft’s new version add applications and services of the enterprise modified operating system, replacing Google.

 

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Asked about the possibility of this happening early next month, the executive of Microsoft Julie Larson-Green did not deny, saying only that “will where consumers are.” In early 2014, some company attitudes have signaled that something related to Android could happen: a strategic partnership was announced with CyanogenMod, manufacturer of the most famous alternative versions of Android, whose CEO said he intends to ” take the Google Android. ” . The partnership says that users can access applications and various categories of Microsoft services

Microsoft has also bought four startups that are a key part: the accompli applications, e-mail; Sunrise, calendars; Wunderlist, lists; and Double Labs, which replaces the Android lock screen. They could be substitutes for Google services

The matter is not as new as it seems, since Microsoft has been manufacturer of an Android phone. – Nokia X. The smartphone, released in 2014, ran a forked version of Android, but we had many problems at the time.

For Microsoft, the real problem of having such a small market share does not attract any application developer, which implies the sale of mobile phones, given that Android and iOS are highlighted on the market due to the wide variety of apps they have.