Microsoft's strategy of cozying up to other platforms is working, so the company is extending it

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Microsoft's strategy of cozying up to other platforms is working, so the company is extending it
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Last week, Microsoft cozied up to Samsung, one of the biggest names in the Android ecosystem. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Minecraft is a big hit on Sony's PlayStation 4, and it's setting up for a big augmented reality win on Apple's iOS.

Last week, Microsoft cozied up to Samsung, one of the biggest names in the Android ecosystem. It announced that soon people with the Galaxy Note 10 smartphone will be able to

installed on the phone directly from Windows 10. Outlook will be pre-installed on each Note 10 phone, and Microsoft has made it possible for people to do more in Outlook with the phone's built-in stylus."When it comes to Microsoft and Samsung working together, I think of their collaboration as highly complementary," Milanesi wrote in a.

In gaming, Microsoft is seeing strong reception of Minecraft on Sony's PlayStation, which competes with Microsoft's own Xbox console franchise. The company behind Minecraft, Mojang, had already planned release a version of Minecraft for the PlayStation 4 before Microsoft announced plans to it in 2014. The key is Microsoft hasn't ignored the PlayStation 4 version -- following the acquisition, the company has issued more than 70 updates to it.

Instead of focusing exclusively on its own augmented reality product, Hololens, Microsoft is readying Minecraft Earth, a game in which players can build blocky virtual worlds atop the real world around them, for iOS.suggests that Microsoft still has issues to iron out before the full release, although that hasn't stopped people from sharing their creations on social networks.

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