Microsoft Pledges Free Phones and More to webOS Devs Who Switch to Windows Phone

Wasting no time, Microsoft’s Windows Phone team is making a standing offer to those writing code for HP’s webOS: Develop for us instead.

In a message on Twitter, Microsoft developer evangelism team head Brandon Watson pledged all manner of support to any programmers who make the switch.

“To Any Published WebOS Devs: We’ll give you what you need to be successful on #WindowsPhone, incl.free phones, dev tools, and training, etc.,” Watson said in a tweet late on Friday, a day after Hewlett-Packard announced its plans to discontinue developing webOS-based hardware, such as the Pre phone and TouchPad tablet.

HP has said it is exploring options for webOS as a software platform and has indicated being open to all options, but it is not clear how many viable options it has.

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Microsoft Get Benefited From Android

Microsoft is also taking advantage of the popularity of the Android operating system. The world’s largest software vendor is reported to gain more revenue from Android platform rather than homemade, Windows Phone 7. Microsoft did not engage directly towards making Android or handset. However, they are known to draw royalties from licensing patents on Android phones, especially the HTC brand. Sales of mobile Windows 7 Phone is far less encouraging.

While HTC’s sales large enough thanks to the adoption of the Android OS. Then estimated, Android just finished mine money for Microsoft. “1.4 million unit sales of Windows Phone with $ 15 per unit royalty to Microsoft gets USD 21 million in the second quarter of 2011. While the HTC phones sold 12 million, with USD 5 per unit royalty to Microsoft earned $ 60 million of Android,” Market analysts call the Horace Dedieu from Asymco.

In 2010, Microsoft and HTC reach patent agreement. Although not stated implicitly how the royalties should be paid for HTC on Microsoft, said to amount to $ 5 per unit sold. Microsoft is also currently trying to achieve more or less the same deal with Motorola. Microsoft judge Android phones Motorola violated its patent related to the process of application and data syncing.

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Time For Microsoft To Justify Its Suddenly Hot Stock (MSFT)

The top options trade so far today is in Microsoft (MSFT), which is trading down 49 cents to $27.07. One player bought 57000 Jan13 $30 calls at $1.71 per contra.

Microsoft announced fiscal Q4 and full year revenue this afternoon. Growing 8 percent from a year ago Microsoft reported $17.37 billion in topline revenue and $6.17 billion in operating income. Revenues for Online Services, which houses Bing and online

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Microsoft announced fiscal Q4 and full year revenue this afternoon. Growing 8 percent from a year ago Microsoft reported $17.37 billion in topline revenue and $6.17 billion in operating income.

Microsoft announced fiscal Q4 and full year revenue this afternoon. Growing 8 percent from a year ago Microsoft reported $17.37 billion in topline revenue and $6.17 billion in operating income. Revenues for Online Services, which houses Bing and online

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