So if Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Series fails to gain traction in the market, because it has few applications and can't compete against Android and iPhone, Microsoft's Plan-B is to get Silverlight onto as many other phone platforms as possible.
What's the use of putting Microsoft's proprietary platform on top of open-source operating systems such as Android and Symbian? The reverse should have happened. If Microsoft had used an open-source kernel as the base of its Windows Phone operating system, it would have come to market years earlier, cost less to develop, and been a success (unlike the current mess that Windows Phone is in).
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