The mighty fox rejects the dark, nonfree habitat

Summary: Firefox is the latest project to quit developing for Windows gadgets

MICROSOFT'S mobile business is in shambles and major vendors gradually abandon it (with recent examples like Skype and Adobe). The latest exit from Windows Mobile is Firefox [1, 2, 3]. The H says:

Mozilla's Mobile Team Technical Lead, Stuart Parmenter, has announced that Mozilla have put development of Firefox for Windows Mobile, also known as Fennec, on hold. Parmenter explained in a blog posting that although development on Firefox for Windows Mobile 6 and 6.5 had been progressing, the announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series by Microsoft – and Microsoft's closing off of native development for that platform – meant that it would not be possible to bring Firefox for Windows Mobile to Windows Phone 7 Series. Parmenter said "Given that Microsoft are staking their future in mobile on Windows Mobile 7 (not 6.5) and because we don't know if or when Microsoft will release a native development kit, we are putting our Windows Mobile development on hold".

Microsoft abandoned backward compatibility and it costs the product dearly. "Mozilla drops Windows Mobile because it no longer matters," says the "open source" ZDNet blog. Sadly, in another new post, this same ZDNet blog does not properly discredit "open core" (as we last showed yesterday, neither do some others), which is not "open source" and is in fact a big threat to it. But that's another story altogether. Microsoft wants modify "open source" by entering its community.

Microsoft is getting very weak these days (not much good news for the company, at least judging by aggregators) and it has succumbed to using suppressive tyrants and political cronies to achieve goals, as we showed just hours ago. Expulsion of these becomes necessary because corruption cannot be resolved through negotiations and kindness. ⬆