Don’t you just love it when Microsoft is forced to use Java?
Don’t you just love it when Microsoft is forced to use Java? I can just imagine the bitter taste in their mouth when circumstances conspire to give them no options but to throw in the towel and embrace one of their most bitter “rivals”. Shouldn’t this be in “Compact .NET Framework”?
Wanted at Microsoft: Some Java ME developers. Ugh! 
Source: CNN.com
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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will release a version of its Windows Live Messenger application for use on NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437.TO) mobile phones “very soon,” sources at Microsoft say. Windows Live Messenger is Microsoft’s online chat program, which competes with a similar offering from Yahoo Japan Corp. (4689.TO). The Japanese mobile version will allow real-time chat with other users on PCs or phones, access to buddy lists, and a “wake-up” feature that will send e-mail to a user’s phone when friends want to chat. Microsoft will initially offer the Messenger chat application as a Java program available for download on mobile phones but hopes to eventually make it a standard feature on all DoCoMo handsets, a source said. A DoCoMo spokesman said he had no knowledge of the application. While some observers feel that the two companies are approaching a major tie- up, others remain skeptical. “I’m not sure of the benefit for DoCoMo. The number of users of i-mode far exceeds those of MSN, which isn’t making a serious effort in Japan,” said Nomura Research Institute analyst Hiroaki Kumakiri. “For DoCoMo, MSN is not really an interesting partner,” he said. DoCoMo said it had more than 51 million users at the end of April. MSN had slightly more than 19 million unique visitors that month in Japan, according to data compiled by Nielsen/NetRatings, although the number of subscribers to e- mail and other services could be far less. |