“On a rainy day last week, the scene at Microsoft's campus in Mountain View, California, looked rather incongruous: several dozen developers sat in an auditorium, many of them taking notes on Apple laptops, while another programmer, also using a Mac, stood behind a podium flanked with Microsoft's blocky logo,” Rachel Metz reports for MOT Technology Review.
“This wasn't a secret meeting of Microsoft rebels; it was Microsoft's attempt to lure developers who have been building apps for Apple's incredibly popular iOS platform, which runs on the iPad and iPhone, over to its Windows 8 and Windows Phone platforms,” Metz reports. “...With many developers building apps for Apple's gadgets and smartphones and tablets running Android software, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant finds itself in the unfamiliar position of needing to get developers' attention.”
Metz reports, “Microsoft's Windows Phone Store has over 120,000 apps, and the company has said it expects to have 100,000-plus apps in the Windows Store by January. Apple's App Store, by comparison, offers over 700,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad.”
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