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Microsoft: Facebook Home? We put 'people first' two years ago with Windows Phone!

While the world seems to have trained its eyes on Facebook Home and listened to Mark Zuckerberg wax eloquent about putting people first, the

April 06, 2013 / 10:50 IST

While the world seems to have trained its eyes on Facebook Home and listened to Mark Zuckerberg wax eloquent about “putting people first”, the launch and the idea doesn’t seem to have gone down well with the guys over at the Microsoft headquarters.Frank Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft took to the Microsoft blog to express his disappointment over the launch of “people, not apps” centric Facebook Home. He jokingly writes in the post, “I tuned into the coverage of the Facebook Home event yesterday and actually had to check my calendar a few times. Not to see if it was still April Fools Day, but to see if it was somehow still 2011.”Shaw says that the content of the presentation made by Facebook chief Zuckerberg was “remarkably similar” to the one made by Microsoft at the launch of Windows Phone two years ago. Surely, people would notice how similar the idea of Facebook Home, that revolves around people and not apps is similar to the one Windows Phone is actually built on.

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first published: Apr 6, 2013 09:53 am

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