A vacancy that is posted on the site of chat application WhatsApp points to a Windows Phone version of the text alternative. WhatsApp is available on many other smartphoneplatformen, but is still missing on Microsoft’s OS.
In the vacancy requires WhatsApp a C#developer. The only mobile operating system where C# is in use, Windows Phone, draw WMPoweruser. The recruitment of a C#developer would therefore suggest the development of a version of WhatsApp for Windows Phone. Some of the other instant messaging applications such as Kik, have, however, a Windows Phone version.
Microsoft sees it as a crucial point for the success of Windows Phone is that popular apps on other platforms also come out on Windows Phone. So, Microsoft had a large share in the porting of Angry Birds and companies, also in the Netherlands, active approached with the question of whether they assistance want to have when creating an app.
WhatsApp applies as an alternative to traditional text and has, over the past year, quickly gained popularity. Meanwhile the app on more than one-third of the smartphones in the Netherlands, according to research firm Telecompaper.
Windows Phone will with the new version of Mango this year release in the Netherlands. Although there are devices from October last year were for sale, the system was not yet translated in English, worked in services not yet in the Netherlands and had the keyboard is still no Dutch autocorrect.
