Microsoft is in talks with HTC to get its Windows Phone operating system loaded onto the manufacturer's Android phones as a second OS. It is mainly because the software maker struggle to gain ground in the mobile market.
Microsoft, with 3.7 percent of the market, is finding it
necessary to make concessions after agreeing to acquire Nokia’s handset
unit, which competes with other smartphone makers.
Android dominated with 79 percent, while Apple Inc.’s iOS was No. 2
with a 13 percent share.
Additionally, one Bloomberg source
claims HTC has no current plans to release any more standalone Windows
Phone handsets, which might explain Microsoft's apparent desire to shoehorn its
OS onto future HTC phones through a dual-booting option.
We've heard from sources that HTC has indeed been looking at
the engineering cost of making an Android/Windows Phone dual-booting handset a
reality. It's unclear how far the project might have progressed, however, nor
whether Google might attempt to throw a wrench in the works by blocking
certification of such a device. Indeed, it's hard to see how Microsoft's
piggy-backing on sales of HTC Android phones would directly benefit anyone
besides Microsoft. Users, for instance, would be presented with two wildly
divergent software experiences — and marketing this kind of handset could
present its own problems.
If the two were to co-operate on a phone that dual-boots
between Android and Windows, it'd certainly be one of the most unusual
smartphone software pairings we've seen in some time.
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