Android apps on Windows Phone sounds like a great idea

As my friend and ZDNet colleague Mary Jo Foley reports, Microsoft is pondering the idea of letting Android apps run on Windows.

This is one of two Android-slash-Windows Phone ideas that are currently floating around, the other being that Microsoft should give up on Windows Phone entirely and move over to Android.

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That last idea is either terrible, or pointless depending on the way you look at it. It's pointless because Microsoft already has an operating system that runs on phones, and it's called "Windows Phone".

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