I have no inside info about the Orca app, but as an app developer - I suggest you see what devices the Orca app was used on - Microsoft only has 1 phone app development environment right now: Visual Studio or Visual Studio Express, which if you have the right SDK (developer software they give out for free) - can publish apps for Windows phones. For something developed before just this last few weeks, that would have meant Windows 7 for phones, although now they’ve released the Windows 8 phone development suite and OS. If this was used on Blackberries, IOS, or Android devices, it would mean the Microsoft team wasn’t using their own platform - but then why hire MSFT to develop on a non MSFT platform?
I find it hard to believe they didn’t do a trial run of the thing before election day...(bad reporting or inept programmers?)
Hope that helps you some!
Thank you, I have run into multiple dead ends on the developer name. Nothing is published anywhere on who it was or where they are based. I would have thought they would have been bragging prior to its release which is common in that industry.
It appears it had to connect to a server securely and someone or something redirected the phone to another address. So it was server based. They also lost the server they used for all there VIOP phones. Comcast announced that day they thought it was a denial of service attack and then retracted that. Very strange stuff either gross incompetence or coordinated attack.