紐約時報討論微軟 Kin 手機慘敗原因：科技業新血不用微軟產品

我的話：歐美主要大學幾乎都是蘋果電腦占了大半，
在 Mac 上，開發 iPhone／Mac OS 的 Xcode 完全免費， 新血們也 順理成章的開發 iPhone Apps，
新一代科技公司也十之八九不用 Windows， 連 Google 也整個公司統一 用 Mac 為標準配備， 想用 Widnows 還得經過特別申請，新一代的 沒有人想開發 Windows 或 WP7 的 Apps， Windows／WP7 的前途自然不樂觀，
就像 Kin， Courier, 與 HP Win7 tablets 被他們公司自己半路殺掉都是必然的結果


紐約時報原文



節錄：““We did not get access to kids as they were going through college,” acknowledged Bob Muglia, the president of Microsoft’s business software group, in an interview last year. “And then, when people, particularly younger people, wanted to build a start-up, and they were generally under-capitalized, the idea of buying Microsoft software was a really problematic idea for them.”

The loss of access to start-ups has already proved damaging to Microsoft as companies like Facebook and Twitter that rely on free software have grown from fledgling operations to Silicon Valley’s latest booming enterprises.”