Samsung goes on Windows

Samsung in the near future can adjust the operating system Android, owned by Google, in favor of Windows from Microsoft. As informed by the Korean media, Samsung will begin the project to reduce its dependence on Android in the 2nd half of 2015.

The South Korean giant is actually seriously thought about the production of smartphones on the Windows operating system to reduce its reliance on Android. It tells the publication of The Korea Times, citing informants within the firm, Samsung engineers have conducted tests of the stability of Windows 8.1 on their own devices and are interested in further release of gadgets on Microsoft software.

The company believes that the release of smartphones on the Windows will help to promote the position of Samsung in the segment of budget phones. It is planned that the creation of mobile phone operating system from Microsoft will begin no earlier than the third quarter of 2015. This will happen only in case, if corporations get to decide the number of disputes about patent fees paid to the Korean company's own American competitors.

Together with this, as the professionals, 2015 will be for Samsung watershed as promote personal operating platform Tizen, informs TJournal. Either the South Korean company will make a bid on it, or refuse altogether. With all of this, market specialists anticipate that the main focus pocus development Samsung will temporarily shift to mobile technologies on the TV.

In 2014, the Korean company has released a series of phones Samsung ATIV SE Windows. Then the release was limited. Gadgets were sold under the agreement with the American operator Verizon. Apparently, the experience proves successful.

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