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posted by janrinok on Sunday May 13 2018, @10:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the another-pig-flies-past dept.

At its Build developer conference this year, Microsoft revealed a new “Your Phone” application that it hopes will make iOS and Android devices work better with Windows 10 PCs. The app bring things such as photos, texts, and more directly from your smartphone to your Windows PC.

One key missing feature, however, is iMessage support – but Microsoft says it would love to work with Apple to change that…

In a thorough interview with The Verge, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore and Shilpa Ranganathan explain that some things are harder to bring to the new Your Phone application than others. Messages is one of those.

While the Your Phone application will work with photos and notifications, Ranganathan says Apple makes it challenging to add support for Messages. Essentially, the vision that she offers is full support for iMessage on Windows via the Your Phone application.

Ranganathan explains that she wants to bring iMessage support to Windows 10 in a way that is respectful to the ecosystem, but also one that makes for an enjoyable experience for users:

“Apple does make it a tad harder for messages, but we’re very willing to work with Apple,” Ranganathan says.

[...] Nevertheless, as The Verge notes, it certainly seems that the new Your Phone platform will launch with better support for Android than iPhone – but something tells me Apple doesn’t care.


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  • (Score: 2) by idiot_king on Sunday May 13 2018, @02:14PM (3 children)

    by idiot_king (6587) on Sunday May 13 2018, @02:14PM (#679187)

    Microsoft breaking up the Windows dev team into components, attempting to focus more on Linux, feigning(?) cooperation with former enemies...
    What are they up to? Is there just no longer an insidious long game they're playing, or is it, as they say, 4D chess that I'm not picking up on?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13 2018, @04:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13 2018, @04:08PM (#679217)

    Q: Microsoft using Apple? Apple using Microsoft?

    A: Both using you.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13 2018, @08:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13 2018, @08:16PM (#679290)

    "Microsoft breaking up the Windows dev team into components, ..."

    Makes it easier for the swat teams to round 'em up.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by crafoo on Sunday May 13 2018, @10:41PM

    by crafoo (6639) on Sunday May 13 2018, @10:41PM (#679336)

    Even with forced upgrades and the standard DirectX shenanigans, Windows 10 is a failure. X Window of all things gains marketshare. The future is appliance computing on ARM, which Microsoft has proven to be fantastically inept at. What you see is fear. Nothing more complex than that. Fear.