Samsung announced a lot of new things last night. But more importantly, it announced an expansion of its existing partnership with Microsoft. Both the companies have been working together for a while, with Samsung shipping some of Microsoft’s apps pre-installed on its Galaxy products for ages. This week, both the firms are expanding their partnership with new integrations and experiences.
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The expanded partnership between Samsung and Microsoft is a big deal. “Today is an important step for both Microsoft and Samsung, and it’s just the beginning of our investment together. We can’t wait to share more with you over the coming months and years as we invest together to empower individuals and organizations to achieve more,” said Shilpa Ranganathan, Microsoft’s CVP for Mobile & Cross-Device Experiences.
Both the companies seem very interested in making the cross-device experience work better for Samsung and Windows 10 users, so this is perfect if you own a Samsung device and a Windows 10 PC. Microsoft’s already invested a lot in making the cross-device experience between Android and Windows 10 work much better over the last year or so, and this newly expanded partnership will let Microsoft get much closer to the Android user by integrating its features directly into the phone itself, instead of requiring to manually download the Your Phone app.
proesterchen
<p>The long and short of it: More bloatware for you!</p>
Stooks
<p>As long as the phone is running a Google OS and slurping up a metric ton of my data, I will never go there. </p><p><br></p><p>If Samsung actually wen't to their Tizen OS or whatever it is called and Microsoft fully supported it, then I would consider it. The Microsoft mobile apps I use work just fine on iOS.</p>