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Microsoft Looks To iPhone Developers For Its Own Mobile Store

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If one of the defining qualities of a mobile phone these days is the number of applications available for the platform, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) isn’t taking any chances.

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In preparation for its upcoming Windows Marketplace launch this fall, Microsoft has published a case study detailing how to port an iPhone application to a Windows Mobile phone, reports the NYTimes. Makes sense. The iPhone has 65,000 apps, making it one of the biggest repositories in mobile today.

The case study was published on Microsoft’s Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site and was written by Crimson Consulting. It details the porting of Amplitude, an app that allows you to record sound with your phone. It comes to the conclusion that “Porting an iPhone application proved both surprising and not nearly as challenging as had been expected…The large development community, both within Microsoft and outside, and the various whitepapers, blogs, virtual labs, websites, and other online documentation, offered a wealth of information that provided direction and greatly facilitated problem resolution.”

Aug 4, 2009 12:36 PM ET

Amplitude application Photo: Microsoft


Posted In: Mobile, Technologies / Formats, Operating Systems, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Microsoft

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