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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 27 2017, @12:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the use-what-works dept.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has revealed he uses an Android-powered smartphone, rather than a Windows one.

"Recently, I actually did switch to an Android phone," he said, speaking on Fox News on Sunday.

Microsoft's own Windows-powered phones have failed to make a significant impact on the smartphone market, which is dominated by devices running Google's Android operating system.

However, Mr Gates said he had installed lots of Microsoft apps on his phone.

When asked whether he also had an iPhone, perhaps as a secondary device, he replied: "No, no iPhone."

He did not reveal which particular smartphone he currently uses.

Beware the chef who won't eat his own cooking.

Also at VentureBeat and CNET


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @10:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @10:42PM (#574074)

    Activesync sucks balls. Still does.

    WinCE was only slightly like NT or Win3.x. Not even close in the way you really ran applications on the thing (32 max exes at a time and 100% pre-emptive time sliced with poor memory protection between applications). The only similarity it had was some of the APIs matched up. Most of the time they did not work exactly the same. WinCE was pretty much outsourced to about 3-4 different companies who made a total botch job out of it. Then MS put a heavy 'tax' on each and every CE box out there at about 30-50 bucks a device. Android tossed that model out the window. The OEMs ate it up and told MS where to stick it.

    could only run .NET code
    .NET was *WELLLLLL* after WinCE first came out. You did not see .NET phones until about WinCE 6.0. 5.5 if you sweet talked MS into the right package. Even then only some phones were actually able to run it at all depending on the features the OEM added. That was around 2006 (just before iPhone took the ball and ran with it). Before then they were bastardized versions of Win32. Then add in the carrier making every application 'qualify' to run on the phone including .NET apps. It was a nightmare up and down.

    Waste of time for my resume. I spent years writing for that trash platform. Paid the bills though.