If you’ve been following tech news at all over the last few years, you’ll know that Microsoft has become a smaller and smaller player in the smartphone space with each passing year. While it’s still pushing out brightly coloured Lumia Windows Phones, it’s not really improving things overall for the tech giant, so it’s pretty plain to see that something needs to give – if the rumours that have dropped today are to be believed, that “something” might be pretty drastic. According to @MSFTnerd, Microsoft could be adopting Android as their operating system of choice on smartphones, which would be an huge call given that Microsoft’s biggest ever deployment of Windows, Windows 10, which is to also roll out on Windows Phones, is scheduled to be in a month’s time. Of course, the two plans might not even be related, but it’s impossible to think about one without the other at the moment.
How would this work logistically, you ask? Well, it wouldn’t be a one-way transaction – for Microsoft to use Android, and also bundle its Microsoft apps for Android use, Microsoft would request use of Google‘s Maps, YouTube, and Search – things that Google exceeds in, and Microsoft… less than exceeds in. Obviously, we have to suggest taking this news with a grain of salt (maybe even a bag), but its tantalizing to just consider what a partnership like that would reap.
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Source: Twitter via Phone Arena
