May 22, 2013

WindowsPhone - News


Windows Phone 7 Launches with 5% Mobile OS Market Share and more than 2000 Apps at Marketplace

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Microsoft is coming back to the smartphone OS wars with the launching of Windows Phone 7 officially today. Microsoft currently holds 5% of the global smartphone OS market share with Windows Mobile according to Gartner research. Windows Phone 7 would need to gain 9% to catch the Apple iPhone and 12% to take on Android [...]

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Details

At sessions at the conference the company said that the new operating system will not, as expected, handle full multitasking for non-Microsoft applications, since third party applications were sandboxed. In addition the operating system would not support multi-tasking. The operating system will also not have the ability to cut and paste. Apple took heat from [...]