[DC LoCo] Microsoft Out of Favor With Young, Hip Developers

[Kevin Cole]

this is news? ;-/

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lunXz127mhI/Microsoft-Out-of-Favor-With-Young-Hip-Developers
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's failures with the KIN phone (only
two months on the market, less than 10,000 phones sold) are well-known to
this community. Now the NY Times goes farther, quoting Tim O'Reilly:
'Microsoft is totally off the radar of the cool, hip, cutting-edge software
developers.' Microsoft has acknowledged that they have lost young developers
to the lures of free software. 'We did not get access to kids as they were
going through college,' acknowledged Bob Muglia, the president of
Microsoft's business software group, in an interview last year. 'And then,
when people, particularly younger people, wanted to build a start-up, and
they were generally under-capitalized, the idea of buying Microsoft software
was a really problematic idea for them.' Microsoft's program to seed
start-ups with its software for free requires the fledgling companies to
meet certain guidelines and jump through hoops to receive software  while
its free competitors simply allow anyone to download products off a website
with the click of a button." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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