From webOS to Windows Phone

First things first. Thank you so much for reaching out to the Windows Phone team to signal your interest in bringing your talents to our platform. To be honest, we didn’t expect this level of response, so we were caught a bit flatfooted.

– Microsoft’s Brandon Watson, in a letter to the more than 500 webOS developers who responded to his tweet last week offering phones, development tools and training to published webOS devs who would like to make a switch to Windows Phone.