Microsoft planning to patent cross-platform app migration service?

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Microsoft is developing a cantankerous-platform service that will enable users to migrate from competitor platforms (or Windows Phone) to Windows Phone, according to a patent filed back in 2022. The service will let apps to exist detected on the legacy handset, which volition and then be listed on the new Windows Phone for convenient downloading, providing users with peace of mind when it comes to installed apps.

According to the filed patent, the company is planning to provide functionality within the service that would analyse installed apps on the legacy handset (eg.: Android). The service would then search for identical or similar apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace. The user would be presented with popular third-party suggestions should official apps not be available.

If there'southward no third-party app nowadays on the Market place, the service will notify the user in the future once a similar app is published. Is that more than than enough? Not according to the company. Microsoft is reported to be wanting to take things further with really creating a complete solution where app information would be stored and transferred beyond to new Windows Phones or from other platforms, preventing information loss. Of course, little detail is available and we're even so to see how this service could work with the likes of Android and iOS.

Another question on listen is if apps will have to be repurchased for Windows Telephone when migrating from some other platform, or would the software giant subsidize the costs? Microsoft has clearly been serious nigh Windows Telephone since the off, and this reaffirms the company's commitment to take function in the smartphone marathon. How would yous like to run across such a service implemented?

Source: Unwired View

The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android 11

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The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android eleven

Afterwards a very long wait, the original Surface Duo is at present eligible to receive its over-the-air Bone update to Android xi. Here is what is new and fixed with the biggest update nevertheless for Microsoft'southward first dual-screen Android device.