I wonder why it took seven months for Microsoft to take these steps? Surely it was not that long of a negotiation. I also asked the Montreal, Canada based team what the purchase price was for this acquisition but they told me that is information they are unable to share publicly. Currently that domain name is redirecting to Microsoft’s Groove Music site. In an email exchange with the Groove team today after this news broke they confirmed that their iOS and Windows Phone apps named Groove Music Smart Player have been pulled from both app stores and the domain name has also been transferred over to Microsoft. This morning, just over seven months later, that has apparently changed with the news that the Groove team has sold their current Groove apps and associated domain name to Microsoft. That app was still actively available in both app stores at the time that Microsoft decided to rename Xbox Music to Groove Music.Īt that time, in early July 2015, I contacted the Groove team and asked what they thought about Microsoft using their previously established product name in one of their products but unfortunately they did not have any comments at that time about the situation. To exacerbate that there was also a company called Groove who had built iOS and Windows Phone apps called Groove Smart Music Player. My take at that time was that using the name Groove, which was part of an acquisition in 2005 when Microsoft bought Ray Ozzzie’s Groove Networks, would create some naming confusion. No Facebook, no Twitter it would mean every body would have to buy a new Phone and get app developers to make apps.Remember last July when Microsoft announced their Groove Music Service? Microsoft has already removed Groove from Windows 8 and presumably W10 and announced it was no longer making phonesĮven if you wanted a Surface phone to come into existence, there are no third-party apps Hewlett Packard released a W10 phone in anticipation of W10 phone Microsoft ended support for Windows 8 and Windows 10 meant any/ all new Windows 10, would fail, Groove Maker UltraPlayer Media Player Free Play MP3s, WAV, CD audio, and streaming audio. Microsoft just stopped selling phones due to Windows 10 (Samsung Note 7 just the Note 7) If you receive an organ from a cancer patient, you will succumb to that disease If Windows 10 was fixable and it isn't say releasing the Surface phone operating system and migrating all Windows 10 to it would solve it Instead of incremental increases to Windows 8, Windows 10 was released by Microsoft Windows 8 works without issue, prior to Windows 10 release it was of course tested and crashed on all models, including the Lumia 950 which was supposed to be released with Windows 10 out of the box
There is no Surface phone, Microsoft no longer makes phones Smart World, I can't wait for out surface phone, then you will see what means smartphone.
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