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I'm glad you're laughing. You don't have a Windows Phone... :? Windows Phone hasn't sold as well as Microsoft expected as this point. Their strategy of "If you build it, they will come" didn't work too well. It's also impacted PC sales as Apple sold a huge number of iPads last year. Micros...

SoftMaker isn't the only company complaining about the lack of C++ support for Windows Phone. Microsoft has recognized this and the rumor is that C++ support will be in the next release called Tango. http://www.liveside.net/2012/01/28/windows-phone-tango-will-support-120-languages-c-development-supp...

While they don't explicitly say that you can't create classic applications on Win8/ARM, you won't be able to sell them through the app store. And the app store is the only way to sell applications for Win8/ARM. Paul Thurrott says no independant classic applications will run on WOA. "Only a tin...

From what I'm gathering, I don't think Microsoft knows at this point what's going to be included on the ARM version. It seems that the Windows team wants to give a Metro version of Office away for free, while the Microsoft Office team wants to keep everything the same. I think the reason why Microso...

I'm not sure if SoftMaker has been following the developments on Windows 8... Last week Microsoft announced their plans for Windows on ARM (WOA). It is intended to be an iPad competitor, meaning that there will be a version of Windows that runs on ARM as well as the traditional x86 version. http://b...