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In case you don’t pay much attention to Microsoft news, the company announced Mac sync support for their forthcoming Windows Phone 7 devices, but you’ll have to wait until later this year to get it.
Engadget is reporting that Microsoft “has gone and done the (nearly) unthinkable” by announcing Tuesday night that their forthcoming Windows Phone 7 handsets will indeed be able to sync with Mac computers -- likely good news for those iPhone haters who might be lured into the Microsoft fold but still want to Mac it up at home.
“Later in 2010 Microsoft will make a public beta available of a tool that allows Windows Phone 7 to sync select content with Mac computers,” the Windows giant announced, without much further detail on exactly what “select content” they might have in mind.
Of course, Microsoft has been on an Apple-friendly tear lately, with the imminent release of Microsoft Office 2011 for the Mac and some pretty cool iOS apps for services such as Bing and Windows Live Messenger -- but Mac syncing for their latest and greatest handsets certainly comes as a welcome surprise.
AppleInsider also just announced that a Twitter post from Microsoft U.K.’s head of Windows Phone marketing, Oded Ran, also appears to confirm that Zune syncing is also coming to the Mac -- although the public tweet was deleted soon after, “presumably because the executive jumped the gun.”
“ANNOUNCEMENT: I’m glad to confirm that Mac users would be able to use Zune on their Macs to sync with #WP7,” Ran’s tweet reads. “More details soon.”
Stay tuned for more details on this news as it breaks.
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MacMike
October 13, 2010 at 11:12am
They could add this feature later because they know that so few Mac users would care about syncing this device to their Macs. Most savvy Mac users have an iPhone and an iPod so they have no need for a Windows Mobile 7 phone or some junky Zune.
