Microsoft Should Have Released a Microsoft Note 10/10+

[anon(7901790)]

Microsoft would have been smart to release a Microsoft Note 10 and 10+. It could have released it with Microsoft Launcher and all of its apps. Maybe even include a free month's subscription to Office 365 and OneDrive.

It would be a great way to reenter the mobile market.

 

[KupKrazy]

No way Samsung would have agreed to a Microsoft branded Note regardless of partnership. It's their flagship phone.

 

[j_hansen]

you could just customise it yourself and have a *Microsoft* phone/device, ok you might have to pay a little extra for some of the services and apps but it would be a better personalised option than a one size fits all made by Samsung/Microsoft

 

[anon(7901790)]

I never mentioned a Microsoft branded Note 10/10+. It would still be a Samsung branded phone that's been customized to run Microsoft products. Microsoft did pretty good with its HP windows branded phones. Nokia/Microsoft branded phones did fairly well until Balmer screwed it up.

The current Note 10/10+ is almost there. Did you not notice that Samsung's stock email was not installed? Outlook, PowerPoint, Word OneDrive Skype, and Excel were all pre-installed. The only thing left to make it a Microsoft version is Microsoft Launcher and a few other apps.

For Microsoft it's less about the hardware and more about the software.

 

[anon(7901790)]

No way Samsung would have agreed to a Microsoft branded Note regardless of partnership. It's their flagship phone.

you could just customise it yourself and have a *Microsoft* phone/device, ok you might have to pay a little extra for some of the services and apps but it would be a better personalised option than a one size fits all made by Samsung/Microsoft

I pretty much have. The only improvement would be tighter integration with Windows. THAT would be what a Microsoft/Samsung Note 10/10+ would be like.

 

[j_hansen]

maybe the tighter integration will come when the Samsung Book S is released

 

[Hermes Hidayat]

id rather have an Apple Note 10+...

 

[j_hansen]

id rather have an Apple Note 10+...

You heathen

 

[toenail_flicker]

if they had, I would own a different device now. I've already blocked and uninstalled all MS that was preinstalled.

 

[Rukbat]

I never mentioned a Microsoft branded Note 10/10+. It would still be a Samsung branded phone that's been customized to run Microsoft products.

Microsoft can easily modify their Android apps to run with the S-Pen. They just don't seem interested in doing it. (Or in integrating their Android apps with their Windows suite.)

If you mean "modify a Note 10 to run Windows programs", that's like modifying a car with a gas engine to run on Diesel fuel - you're not talking apples and oranges, you're talking apples and railroad engines. You can't "modify" an Android phone to run Windows programs without a Windows emulator. They exist, but emulation is slow.

 

[anon(7901790)]

Microsoft can easily modify their Android apps to run with the S-Pen. They just don't seem interested in doing it. (Or in integrating their Android apps with their Windows suite.)

If you mean "modify a Note 10 to run Windows programs", that's like modifying a car with a gas engine to run on Diesel fuel - you're not talking apples and oranges, you're talking apples and railroad engines. You can't "modify" an Android phone to run Windows programs without a Windows emulator. They exist, but emulation is slow.

I didn't say WINDOWS applications, I said MICROSOFT applications. HUGE difference. In short Microsoft could create its own custom ROM that has Microsoft Launcher as the default launcher, Cortana as the default assistant, and all of Microsoft's apps (Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, etc) pre-loaded. ALL of which are available for Android.

The phone would still be branded as Samsung though and the Samsung apps can still be pre-loaded as well.

 

[donebrasko]

The first thing I did was install their launcher. I use their whole suite.

 

[anon(7901790)]

The first thing I did was install their launcher. I use their whole suite.

Same here.

 

[rocktauber]

Same here.

Yup, same here. Microsoft has got some good stuff going on, and that's what makes Android so good. It's Personal.