Microsoft says Google trying to undermine Windows Phone

of the pot calling the kettle black. However, is the following a case of UEFI karma?

Quoting:"YouTube apps on the Android and Apple platforms were two of the most downloaded mobile applications in 2012, according to recent news reports," Heiner wrote. "Yet Google still refuses to allow Windows Phone users to have the same access to YouTube that Android and Apple customers enjoy."

My heart bleeds. Really, it does.

Awww, this makes me so sad. *snerk*

Quoting:"Yet Google still refuses to allow Windows Phone users to have the same access to YouTube that Android and Apple customers enjoy."

Has anyone figured out the type of access MS claims that Windows Phone users are being refused access to?

As far as I know, YouTube is accessed via HTTP/html browser interface, is there any other? or is it a case of MS proprietary type of interface that is only supported by MS and YouTube is not allowed to use?

It is hogwash, otherwise MS would be all over YouTube with lawsuits.

There are Flash and MP4 videos on YouTube. I can't imagine Windows Phone not supporting those.

MS browsers are well known for ignoring standards. Maybe MS did something odd with their phone version of IE and YouTube didn't bend over backwards to write special code to support the 1% of the SmartPhone market Windows has.

Microsoft, it seems, is also upset because Google insists on using open-standards protocols including CalDAV, CardDAV, and IMAP, for calandar syncing, rather than Microsoft's proprietary Exchange ActiveSync protocol.

Truly my heart bleeds for Microsoft

Where are the violins? Where is the horn section -- where is the friggin orchestra? Weren't they supposed to be standing by to provide suitably thematic back-up?

How is anyone supposed to know this is really bad news? Really bad, really scary news! Quick, someone see if we can license the theme from "Jaws".

Quoting:Has anyone figured out the type of access MS claims that Windows Phone users are being refused access to?

@Fetoosh, according to El Reg,

Quoting:According to Heiner, Google has denied Microsoft's YouTube app access to metadata that would allow it to deliver all of YouTube's functionality, including such features as user ratings and the ability to search for videos by categories.

Because of this limitation, he says, Microsoft has been forced to deliver an app that's really nothing more than a repackaged version of the YouTube website running in a browser – unlike the apps for other platforms, which offer richer experiences.

Although YouTube execs have seemed amenable to helping Redmond get its YouTube app up to par with the others, Heiner says those efforts have been blocked from higher up the Chocolate Factory's food chain.

But, I agree. This is all hogwash. Microsoft's claims of being fettered by unpublished protocols and APIs just happen to be the same tactics Redmond has used against all others for decades.

Quoting:Microsoft's claims of being fettered by unpublished protocols and APIs just happen to be the same tactics Redmond has used against all others for decades.

Thanks @djohnston for the clarification. I didn't read the article in full since I have no interest in reading about MS whining.

Good for Google for giving MS a taste of its own medicine.

Never mind the "Jaws" theme. I'd prefer "Fortuna Imperiatrix Mundi" from Carmina Burana.

Hey I know what Ballmer should do in response!

Drop another few billion in copying youtube (DollarPipe?). All those other knockoffs like Bing, Zune and Windows Phone have worked so well.....

Quoting:ever mind the "Jaws" theme. I'd prefer "Fortuna Imperiatrix Mundi" from Carmina Burana.

Love it :)

MS already tried to copy YouTube. I don't even remember what the site was called, so I guess it wasn't wildly successful...