Microsoft to feed the starving nations…with phones
Posted by: admin in Business and PoliticsMicrosoft’s Craig Mundie sees a way for the software giant to shift its largesse to the developing world. It’s called the phone, and will challenge Microsoft’s desktop-centric view of the world in its attempts to grow beyond its Western roots.
Interestingly, Microsoft is actually innovating here. Truly innovating:
Microsoft will increase its focus on making mobile phones part of its strategy to spread IT to people in developing nations, based partly on a prototype already developed for the purpose called Fone+….
The idea is to connect a low-to-mid-end smartphone based on the Windows Mobile OS to a TV via a docking station so data on the handset can be displayed on the Television screen. That way, people can use the computing power in the smartphone on a large screen.
Back in 2003, I looked at buying the intellectual property for Hancom Office’s embedded Linux-based competitor to Microsoft Office to kickstart this market. A friend and I couldn’t get venture funding for it, but that isn’t a problem that plagues Microsoft. Cash is in abundance in Redmond. It has the resources to do this right.
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