Thursday, February 11, 2016

Android – already 74 manufacturers preinstall Microsoft applications – PurePC.pl (Register)

Microsoft has clear grounds for satisfaction – the company Although not create Android, but with it can gain more users and receive profits greater than those from sales of devices running Windows Phone. The corporation praised yesterday the joinder of strategic cooperation with Acer, pursuant to which tablets and smartphones the company will go preinstalled applications provided by Microsoft, such as Office, customers of the cloud onedrive or voice messaging and offering video calls on Skype. Of course, a legitimate question in this case is whether it was actually voluntary decision equipment manufacturers, or however against the wall resulting from a rich portfolio of patent, what is in store American corporation.



Settlement and pre-load several applications or court case: in most cases, the choice is obvious, manufacturers do not have the means to fight.

the company boasts that a similar cooperation decided to have a total of 74 manufacturers in 25 countries all over the world. The campaign was started later that year, major partners were the most well-known brand, which, among others, Samsung. Under such agreements, the producers commit themselves to a set of pre-installed applications provided by Microsoft. They are not harmful applications, but rather a very well-known services such as mobile office package Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Outlook e-mail client, notebook onedrive cloud onedrive and Skype. They have many users, and such pre-load allows to acquire new customers.

Even if you decide to buy such. Office 365, it is the very fact of belonging, one additional” sheep “more in this great ecosystem is already for corporations plus. Significant are also the same circumstances conclusion of the contract. Patent portfolio Microsoft provides him with constant influence of manufacturers, who, under a settlement agreed to pay appropriate royalties, instead of fighting the company in court – we can not even be aware of it, but when we buy equipment with Android, in most cases, a certain percentage of lands to the vault corporations. This tactic obviously has a number of advantages: the company somehow shows its commitment towards customers, unlike Google or Apple provides its services to all popular platforms, not only closes on mobile installment of Windows.



the new equipment we can find more and more preinstalled applications. It has an impact on performance.

The problems can cause the fact of a growing number of pre-installed applications – manufacturers do not have much choice. On the one hand, it is Google that without protection money and install your application will not allow you to use the service and the Play Store (Android without which it becomes much less attractive), on the other hand just Microsoft. Currently, we are buying new equipment, so we get two very similar set of applications, and for good measure additional software from the manufacturer. Is all of this benefit? No. Is everyone will feel a smaller amount of free memory and a bit slower? Here to answer, unfortunately, it is not so clear.

Source: Microsoft

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