{"id":680225,"date":"2010-03-02T16:09:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=13871"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:07:15","slug":"microsoft-is-planning-to-invest-1-billion-in-research-and-development-for-windows-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/680225","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is planning to invest $1 billion in research and development for Windows Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13871\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?resize=50%2C61\" height=\"61\" width=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wmpoweruser.com\/edward\/mwcpubpic\/Microsoftisplanningtoinvest1billioninres_1298E\/microsoftlogoBM1948183.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"microsoft-logo,B-M-194818-3\" border=\"0\" alt=\"microsoft-logo,B-M-194818-3\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wmpoweruser.com\/edward\/mwcpubpic\/Microsoftisplanningtoinvest1billioninres_1298E\/microsoftlogoBM1948183_thumb.png?resize=240%2C150\" width=\"240\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Microsoft\u2019s Bill Koefoed has told Pacific Crest analyst Brendan Barnacle that Microsoft is planning to invest $1 billion in research and development for Windows Mobile. <\/p>\n<p>Bill also poopooed any suggestion that Microsoft was interested in an acquisition of Palm&#160; or RIM.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Koefoed also noted that the operating system firm Palm and Research in Motion both have their own set of development challenges,&quot; Barnacle writes. <\/p>\n<p>In Palm\u2019s case the massive failure of WebOS is clear, and despite RIM\u2019s huge success in the market, there is also very little doubt their OS is in need of a major revamp.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully much of that billion will be used for further intelligent integration of Microsoft\u2019s various online and desktop services in their various mobile operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>What new technology would you like Microsoft to develop into Windows Phone? Let us know below.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/velocity\/2010\/03\/02\/analyst-microsofts-planned-1b-mobile-investment-means-palm-acquisition-unlikely\/?partner=yahootix\" >Forbes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s Bill Koefoed has told Pacific Crest analyst Brendan Barnacle that Microsoft is planning to invest $1 billion in research and development for Windows Mobile. Bill also poopooed any suggestion that Microsoft was interested in an acquisition of Palm&#160; or RIM. &quot;Koefoed also noted that the operating system firm Palm and Research in Motion both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QXn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781693,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680225\/revisions\/781693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}