HP’s decision to use webOS instead of Windows has probably raised quite a few heads at Microsoft’s – while most of Microsoft’s other hardware partners have deployed at least a token Windows Phone, HP npow gives up on another Microsoft product.

WorldWideGadget reports the following:

Allen Buckner, Marketing Manager for the former Home Server Group, gave the news in a phone conference earlier this month, saying only that HP was “shifting additional resources to focus on webOS initiatives”

If you ask me, we could see a webOS netbook in a year or two – if HP would finally permit developers to use the Qt runtime which comes with every Pre, well,…

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2 Responses to “HP: we prefer webOS to Microsoft home server”

  1. It would be interesting only if you could set up your WebOS device/phone to sync to this server instead of the Palm Server. I do not like the idea of my important information residing on someone else’s server.

  2. Hi Baal,
    thank you so much for talking back!

    I am not sure whether Palm would allow this. Of course, it would make sense for many users including you and me – but it would also force Palm (HP) to give us access to its server software.

    All the best
    Tam Hanna

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