Microsoft is doing good on the its mobile platform lately.
After the launch of Windows phone 7, industry had given various kinds of
reviews on its survival and plans for future. Looking at the plans of its next
major release after 7 code named mango, which is set to release this
fall it looks like Microsoft has been rigorously working hard to make headway
into the already crowded mobile OS market.
It things looks impressive in the manner Microsoft has
been able to get the next version quickly with many new features and
enhancements. I thought of sharing few of these I found while surfing the net.
Social networks are now getting more embedded into the OS
level. Using the Me hub, users can directly login to Facebook and get updates
on notifications. The live tile allows
users status updates, check-in, comments etc. It is assumed twitter also will
be tightly integrated to the OS. Using the automatic face detection, tagging
becomes much easier on Facebook photo albums.
Another major enhancement has been on the email front. Now
users have the option of combining multiple email accounts to bind them in
single inbox. There has been good
improvement on the email conversation font too. There has been addition of
voice dictation, so users will be able to speak out message and can have the
incoming message spoken to you.
Maps are also getting better with integration with Local
Scout to find business around user’s location. This version comes with Internet
Explorer 9 with full support of HTML5/CSS3.
Overall it looks like a good new release with decent
number of feature additions and enhancements. Though it cannot be said, it will
be a threat to the other mobile OS giants but it looks like it is catching
closer to the other ones.
Siraj
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