And the company has recruited engineers who specialize in mobile phone development, including former Apple employees who worked on the development of the iPhone.
This makes sense on a number of levels, particularly because it fits with Google's ambitions for disrupting the mobile industry through its new open mobile phone development platform Android, and for eBay - which was recently forced to admit that it had paid too much for Skype.
Although people can and do refer to Windows Phone development as "Metro", in this context – and on the MSDN subsite – we're talking about native applications that are built in Windows 8's new application framework that goes by the name of WinRT.
We validated the model with data from a mobile phone development project.
Motorola, for example, gives Jamdat a window into its phone development plans giving Jamdat an edge.
Google 's Android Honeycomb platform, for example, which was demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month, will contribute competition to future smart phone development.
This included dismissing dozens of Fire Phone engineers and also, reportedly, plans to put phone development on hold, the report said.
So, we announced today that we're shipping Visual Studio 2010 for Windows Phone development Express for free, and then also the Expression Blend for phone also for free.
After all, Huyn's Windows Phone development chops are well-established by now: He's perhaps best known for whipping up an equally handsome Wikipedia app that won Microsoft's curious Next Big App contest a few months back.
At one point, attorneys displayed a slide from an internal Oracle presentation on phone development that read in part, "Oracle has very limited internal expertise to make smart decisions".
