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Comment by gavin_gee

(caveat i worked at MS for years but now don't)

One of Microsoft's greatest strengths on show here. Embrace and extend.

They made a mess of trying to build an app business with windows RT, Windows 8, windows 10. They can't get into the apple appstore ecosystem so they pivot to embracing the Android ecosystem to have an app catalog on windows.

(Ironically what google did with Android was the play that Microsoft should have done with windows phone - classic OEM play which they had done successfully for years before)

parent gavin_gee 5 years ago

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