Microsoft has unveiled its latest operating system for mobile handsets, Windows Phone 7. The OS was first shown this week at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. Including a completely redesigned interface Windows Phone 7 also brings more entertainment-based features from its Zune music player devices and Xbox Live gaming. Previous versions of Microsoft’s […]
Microsoft has unveiled its latest operating system for mobile handsets, Windows Phone 7. The OS was first shown this week at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. Including a completely redesigned interface Windows Phone 7 also brings more entertainment-based features from its Zune music player devices and Xbox Live gaming. Previous versions of Microsoft’s OS for mobile phones were known as Windows Mobile, whereas the new version is called Windows Phone.
“In a crowded market filled with phones that look the same and do the same things, I challenged the team to deliver a different kind of mobile experience,” said Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.
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“Windows Phone 7 Series is a phone that truly reflects the speed of people’s lives and their need to connect to other people,” Ballmer continued.
Unlike similar operating systems, such as the iPhone OS, Windows Phone 7, however, enables you to have multiple apps open.
However, Microsoft faces a struggle in the smartphone market where it has just a nine per cent share and competes with Symbian, BlackBerry, Palm, Apple and Android.
