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Innovation Showcase : Windows Phone: What Microsoft Learned From Apple?

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zhiming 1181 days, 21 hours, 49 minutes ago

01 March 2010Windows Phone: What Microsoft Learned From Apple?

Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, writes at PC Magazine that “Microsoft is taking a page out of Apple's playbook with Windows Phone 7 Series.” By comparing the merits of Apple’s “closed” system with those of Google’s open source and community approach, he believes that Microsoft, by issuing strict hardware and software guidelines to its partners, will force all applications to be designed around a single hardware and software...