Microsoft hedges its platform bets with FonePlus
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft is showing off a prototype of a cell-phone operating system that it might end up fielding as a low-cost computing platform for the developing world.
Add to Microsoft's lower -cost computing alternatives designed for the developing world a new cell phone operating system, known as FonePlus.
Microsoft officials showed a prototype of the platform at the company's day-long Financial Analyst Meeting here on July 27.
Microsoft has been dabbling with a number of different platforms with which it is hoping to attract potential first-time and/or less affluent users. Among these initiatives, some of which are commercially available and others are in test and/or research-prototype phase ? are Windows XP Starter Edition, FlexGo and Internet kiosks.