Adding OpenAI to their cloud products and windows 11 highlights a missed opportunity to have AI vertically integrated in their mobile products.

  • EvilColeslaw@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    They had one too many miscues with updating Windows Phone and breaking compatibility. WP7 devices couldn’t upgrade to WP8. They waited until WP8.1 to roll out the WinRT platform with cross- compatability between PC and mobile apps. Then 10 died before they could get the Android bridge stuff working.

    Their app problem was made worse by Google’s direct sabotage. They were constantly taking down any third party YouTube app and at one point were even jerking Microsoft around – offered to allow MS to develop a YT app in partnership with Google. Everything was fine through development and testing until just before release. Then Google informed MS that the app was no longer acceptable, and they were required to use only HTML5 and no native code.

    • aserraricEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      The SDK was pretty awful in 7 and 8, though. Only in WP10 it started to become decent. I was happy when we dropped WP support from our app and focused on Android and iOS (although frankly, iOS is also getting on my nerves with some regularity).