When Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7: Will Windows Phone 7 be charged?

Historically, Microsoft has used radical means to combat the enemy and forcibly obtain positions in every backward but critical field. Windows and IE. I have a friend who once participated in the development of Microsoft ie2 and ie3, describing the development of IE in that year, in order to catch up with Netscape, Microsoft selected hundreds of excellent soldiers from all teams, Xu Yishi, send a sleeping bag to everyone for nearly six months. Later, we not only provided Internet Explorer for free, but also offered various awards to software product dealers to distribute copies of Internet Explorer.

At present, the form of Microsoft is similar to the time of the browser war, and it seems more severe. Similarly, Microsoft is about to lose its mobile market. In the next two to three years, mobile computing will surpass PC as the largest channel for obtaining information. What's even more serious is that the current rival was Netscape, and the current rivals include Apple, Google, Nokia, and blackberry. These companies are the rivals of Microsoft, far from being as tough as Netscape.

although apple, Nokia, and BlackBerry are not open to their operating systems, Google is free of charge, andriod is also open-source. what's even worse is that Google has been focusing on Microsoft in many fields. As we all know, Microsoft relies on Windows and Office to eat. Other things can survive because of these two magic weapons. Google's chrome, Android, and Google Docs have gradually gained user recognition with the support of its absolutely monopolized search business, and these fields are exactly the seven-inch of Microsoft. No one can shake Microsoft's dominant position in the PC field, but if Google can gradually gain a place in the mobile computing field, with chrome and search and map services, it will have the opportunity to beat Microsoft in areas other than desktop and office. What makes Microsoft very uncomfortable is that Google is almost free of charge for all these things! Because Google is an advertiser and only charges ads! This is simply something that Microsoft cannot afford!

From the above analysis, we can see that Google is overwhelmed by the overall situation of Microsoft. If the market for mobile phone operating systems is lost, it means that in the future computing field, the operating system will be handed over to others. This is something Microsoft can never ignore. Mr. Ballmer said that 90% of Microsoft's work in the next year is related to cloud computing.Article). If you stick to the license business, Microsoft will become the next dec or sun and be marginalized. If Microsoft is in cloud computing in the future, the license of the mobile operating system obviously does not matter. Moreover, Microsoft has always been a leader in the mobile computing field. Even the hard-working HTC has been running to andriod, and Microsoft may feel cool and cool.

From all the above situations, Microsoft will not charge Windows Phone 7. Of course, you may be charged for the office.