What if Microsoft opens the door to applications in the Android ... - Engadget

We will not deny that Microsoft is getting a very good evolution of its mobile platform, Windows Phone 8.1 and reach many expected functionalities present in the competition. But within applications, no less, and are not always a priority for developers.

internal and Anonymous Sources in Microsoft have told you people Verge that the Redmond company is considering the possibility that Android apps could somehow get a Windows Phone , or even Windows .

can not assure that it would be an appropriate way to make the Windows Phone ecosystem is more rich and attractive again, but we can remember that right now we have a similar experience with BlackBerry 10 , and reality is that there has not been a push to the platform of the Canadian company.

Why create a Metro application from scratch, if I’m doing the porting to Android?

It is also true that Microsoft machinery is much more powerful, and able to run with greater assurance as radical movement. By the way, Windows Phone is a platform and with much more value in developing BlackBerry users and 10.

think plans are start-ups – and considering – nothing that we will see tomorrow, but either way, it would be a path that Microsoft should handle with care. You could end up killing developing their own platforms : if offers facilities for a developer to work carrying their Windows Phone, to do the job twice

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Regarding hardware, I do not think anyone finds obstacles, platforms are increasingly similar in components (both ARM as Intel), controllers, and possibilities. Yes it seems more important to the way in which a user can access and run applications, should be simple and transparent, without emulation.

Throughout this cocoa possibilities, we must introduce the small Nokia Normandy, that phone that no doubt that inside there is a version of Android, and that could allow the two goals that seem to consider on the table easily to bring Android applications, and access to Microsoft services / Nokia.

Any realistic planning

point to 2015 or Windows 9 to start seeing this issue in practice

Microsoft is vital for there many devices that connect to your cloud , their services, more important than making money selling phones.

Millions of customers have their Google accounts associated with their Android devices, so does Apple, but in the case of Windows, there is no close relationship with their cloud services. We are already seeing movement to revive the business, such as renaming OneDrive .

Another interesting detail, Satya Nadella, brand new in office, has the responsibility to decide what to do, and in the future we will evaluate the wisdom that was in one of his first major moves. We do not forget the possibility of not charging for licenses its mobile operating system, also raised weeks ago.