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Actually I would be a bit surprised because:
1) There is no margin in hardware
2) There is no margin in OS
The only profit is the app store side of things - and if MS go to Android they either have to accede to Google app store or compete with...which would turn the only profitable part of the mobile phone ecosystem into a race to the bottom too.
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And what will this mean for developers?
i cri evry tiem
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I'd say it probably means a lot more Xamarin will be in our lives 
TTFN - Kent
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I'm still deciding whether that will be a good thing or a bad thing
i cri evry tiem
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or: If you can't beat em buy em!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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There's some really sad things about that pic. Look how she's dressed. It must be freezing in that room. She's even got some sort of mitten to keep her hand warm. And she looks horribly bored -- what a way to treat a human being, pecking at a stupid screen for probably 12 hours a day. We all know it, but this is a pretty good example of the negative side-effects to tech.
Marc
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By exploiting some peculiarities of the popular Web programming framework Ruby on Rails, researchers have developed a system that can quickly comb through tens of thousands of lines of application code to find security flaws. Peculiarities in Ruby on Rails. You're being a little redundant there.
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Now there's a language that you don't want to approach intoxicated.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Sounds to me like a static analysis tool (lint), such as have been existence since at least 1979 (when the Unix Lint tool was released).
Is that really the first Lint for Ruby?
Nothing to see here, move on.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft will stop operating the RoboVM service for turning Java-based applications into native mobile apps for iOS and Android. After April 30, 2017, developers’ subscriptions to the service will not work. They're still a little sensitive when it comes to Java apps
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As part of its annual environmental report that the company released yesterday, Apple declared that it had recovered nearly 90 million pounds of materials from Apple devices recycled through is program in 2015. Clear out that drawer you have all your old phones in, we'll be rich!
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iTunes for Windows is still OK, but QuickTime is serious bug bait and Apple is no longer providing security updates. It's never too late to correct a mistake like that
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Kent Sharkey wrote: iTunes for Windows is still OK
 
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Relatively speaking, of course.
TTFN - Kent
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That's probably the widest definition of 'relatively' I've heard in quite a while.
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Skype for Web, Outlook.com, Office Online and OneDrive can do voice, video calling without plug-ins when used with Windows 10's Edge browser. The browser no one uses, now supports the chat no one likes. Winning!
Yes, those are both gross exaggerations. Sorry for the offence, Edge team.
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The owner of a Web hosting company who claimed to have erased his entire business from the Internet with a single script command appears to have made the whole thing up. Bonus marks for those who declared shenanigans
But I am at a loss as to how this could be used for marketing: "Oh look, I advertised that I'm an idiot (and people took me seriously). Buy my services."
I suppose it's the old "There is no such thing as bad publicity"
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They are going to be in some major legal trouble there.
What idiots.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I suppose it's the old "There is no such thing as bad publicity"
Brand recognition as goal?
The meaning of the word 'spam' has shifted, but back in the 90's, any advertisement through forums, usenet newsgroups etc. would be considered spam.
What this guy (and any viral marketer) did could be called creative spam. Creative, but it still makes him a spammer, the lowest of the lowlife to be found under internet rocks.
But if spamming didn't pay off, we'd see a lot less of it.
I clearly remember Amazon being nicknamed Spamazon, just because they took the fact that you ordered something from them as your permission to start e-mailing you their ads.
Back then it made me and a lot of people mad, but when some etailer does it today, all I do is sigh, start searching for the unsubscribe link, and hope it works.
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five-decade-long quest for quality
And he's still searching!
Marc
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Kevin
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A problem happens when you achieve high quality early on, but are pressured to keep changing things -- the quality can only decrease.
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