In the early morning of April 6, Beijing time, Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft's vice president of corporate communications, said on Friday that Microsoft had done the same thing before Facebook released its' people-oriented 'smartphone home screen app Facebook home yesterday.
Frank & middot; Shaw put forward a series of questions. The basic theme is that Microsoft answered the questions raised and answered by Facebook home when it released Windows Phone 7.5 two years ago. At that time, Microsoft did use the slogan "put people first". His basic view is that what Facebook home wants to achieve is actually what Microsoft Windows Phone has achieved, but the former needs to sacrifice less.
Industry insiders pointed out that, to some extent, Frank & middot; Shaw's words are reasonable, but the problem is that Windows Phone has not yet gained a firm foothold in the smartphone market, as can be seen from the data recently released by comScore, a market research company. So far, consumers haven't seen a 'human text' smartphone platform, at least not from Microsoft. The Nokia lumia 920, for example, doesn't offer a better social experience.
Facebook held a press conference at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Thursday to officially launch a customized home social desktop interface based on the Android operating system, as well as HTC first, a new social mobile phone cooperating with HTC. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, said: "home is not a mobile phone or an operating system, but a new mobile social experience that allows users to see the world through people rather than apps.".