“Windows Phone will eventually succeed in the business market because there is too much malware attacking the Android operating system, which is also more difficult to develop for, says Microsoft’s Windows Phone developer evangelist,” Rodney Gedda reports for Techworld Australia. “Initially aimed at the consumer market, Windows Phone 7 (WP7) is slowly gaining momentum in the corporate space where it will become a mainstream option alongside BlackBerry, Symbian and the newer big guns iOS and Android, according to Microsoft Australia’s Windows Phone developer evangelist, Dave Glover.”
Gedda reports, “Unlike Android, apps for WP7 are required to be distributed through the MarketPlace app store, but Glover said this will change when private deployment of apps is supported in future versions.”
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s iOS, of course, has long offered this capability to enterprises.
“While Android provides the option of installing app without going through Google’s Android Market, Glover said businesses are not jumping on Android because of security concerns,” Gedda reports. “‘There is a lot of malware targeting the Android platform,’ he said.”
Gedda reports, “Last week a vulnerability was discovered in the official Skype app for Android that could allow other malicious apps to access personal data on the phone. And earlier this year some 50 apps in the Android Market were discovered to contain a form of malware. In a further endorsement of his platform, Glover said the level of complexity is higher when developing an app for Android compared with Windows Phone.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If Microsoft knows anything, they certainly know all about complexity and insecurity.
Both Windows and Andorid will succeed because there is plenty of room at the bottom.
So let me get this right …. MicroShaft will sell ’cause Android will not, hum, OK …..
Agree, there is room for people who think like this ….
MicroShaft at least admits they will sell only as because Android will fail …..
Got it!
And because Apple needs someone to stand on………………..
it’s a shame they don’t offer it now with their operating system.
pot calling the kettle black anyone?
Wow, when you have Microsoft calling you insecure, you know you have problems.
+1
Not to mention complicated!
does somebody understand the WP7 user interface????? After iOS, Android is one of the easiest OS for mobile devices
Well, when you blatantly copy iOS, then it’s pretty hard not to be just about as good.
“If Microsoft knows anything, they certainly know all about complexity and insecurity.”
I think Microsoft’s invented the first breeding grounds for malware via their desktop OS. Google’s Android is successfully playing catchup in this field.
Notice how Microsoft carefully never mentioned Apple’s iOS when it comes to it’s benefits of not having malware? That MS apologist, er.. evangelist is pretty smart with his FUD.
iOS rocks.
The first piece of malware ever was written for an Apple product.
Not in this time and spacial dimension. Read some computer history.
Well, if you’re counting all computers and not just modern PCs, the first malware was that bastard that cut some beads off the Abacus and screwed up the Chinese Emperor’s nation wide inventory.
Maybe he means the first of many pieces of malware written by MS, was written for a Mac.
My error (and althegeo’s error as well) …
The first worms, network-borne infectious programs, originated not on personal computers, but on multitasking Unix systems. The first well-known worm was the Internet Worm of 1988, which infected SunOS and VAX BSD systems. Unlike a virus, this worm did not insert itself into other programs. Instead, it exploited security holes (vulnerabilities) in network server programs and started itself running as a separate process. This same behaviour is used by today’s worms as well.
Seems to me Apple software is malware.
Oh look, a Windoze troll boldly offering his worthless opinion on topics that he will never understand (such as secure and stable software).
What a cute little piece of trolling!
Check the ammo; Line up the troll in the gunsight; Pull the trigger and…
I am going to be the lone one here to call this article mostly right. Microsoft has an awsome phone OS on thier hands and Andriod is riddled with security issues (which WP7 is not). The only thing the article got totally wrong is it seems to presume apps on the Android marketplace are secure…. totally not the case. This will take a few years to play out, but security and privacy blunders will topple Android in the long run once the masses understand what an insecure OS it is. Just my 2 cents.
This is so funny, my sides are hurting.
Wow. Just wow.
To have Microsoft claim that any software developer has a security problem is just … damn no shame…
Android is only complex to someone who knows only Windows!
If you know Linux, or even any straight form of Unix, then Android suddenly does not seem so ‘complex’.
So what OS does MS think will replace Windows in the enterprise?
Since according to this article I am concluding that a platform being attacked by malware is cause for picking another option!
POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK MUCH?
Android has its problems, as I frequently point out. But the last thing Google needs is advice from the makers of the LEAST secure and MOST annoyingly complex operating system available. STFU Microsoft.
This total BS from Microsoft reminds me a lot of the all-too-popular propaganda routine called “I know you are but what am I” or “I’m bounce, you’re glue. Whatever you say bounced off me and sticks on you.”
IOW: If you’re guilty of a crime, scream bloody murder that THE OTHER GUY did it. It’s sort of like ‘He who smelt it dealt it.’ IOW: It’s a baby game. Your infantile mind is showing Microsoft. Baby needs a change of diapers.
Ummm, is Microsoft telling us they are going to fail in the market due to the insecurity of their software with the overly complex software versions?
It sure sounds like it. Maybe the first to fall will be Google followed by Microsoft. The general failure order is acceptable to me.
Hiis subliminal messages are killing his company. Then again, I like the small of napalm in the morning as the gentle wind from Microsofts campus settles over the coffee shop.
Toast to Mr Napalm himself! Steve BALLMER!!!!! May you long rule Microsoft.
LOL!!!!!
“businesses are not jumping on Android because of security concerns”
If enterprise was worried about security they would have dumped Microsoft products in the ’90s. Enterprise is not concerned, Security is what IT weenies are for. Bring on Android. IT weenies are ready for anything.
Why bring on Android when you can use iOS instead and bypass the BS?
I can think of one right off the top of my head that stalled us on bringing in the iPhone.
What if you have an enterprise cell contract with a company that is not AT&T or Verizon?
Answer: change your cell provider.
Wow.
Just . . . wow.
Smells like Zune Tang planted this story.
Notice how the mobile OSes which are having security/malware issues are those which allow people to install apps NOT through an App Store or similar, screened setup.
If I recall correctly, and I’m sure I’ll be corrected if I’m wrong, the only malware in the wild for iOS can only infect jailbroken phones, because you have to download it from one of the unauthorized iOS app sites.
We need to get a “blog pool” going on what date Android officially blows itself up due to security issues.
Anyone else notice Microsoft and google are doing pretty much the same things nowadays.
the only differences are:
google tends to spread your personal information around the wold
and
microsoft still can’t make a usable interface
I mean we have bing/google search, chrome os/windows 8, android os/windows phone
And of course idiots from both companies who think they look smart because they know how to pronounce the word “cloud”
also, when this guy from ms said “the android is complex” I think he meant to develop for, not to use (not that the ui doesn’t suck).
It is a common move in politics… accuse the other guy of doing EXACTLY what you yourself are doing. Amazingly it works.
The Wow starts now?
From the people who bought the world Vista…
I had to go to the original article, to see what a “Windows Phone 7 developer evangelist” looks like.
Yup, totally demented.
Holy Frack! It’s a WATCHER!
Just the comment read was EXHAUSTING!!! I’m going to watch the Red Wings game now…… Long AAPL 4-20-2011, $420.00 by Sept. Keep laughing naysayers.