Microsoft Shows New Features and Future Direction for Windows Phone 7Microsoft today kicked off Mobile World Congress by giving people a glimpse of what the rest of the year will bring for Windows Phone 7. Among the updates are several new features, a booming app marketplace, and the integration of even more Microsoft products with the phone.
Microsoft announced several new Windows Phone 7 features coming in 2011, including a “dramatically enhanced” browser experience based on Internet Explorer 9; additional multitasking capabilities; support for Microsoft Office documents in the cloud; and the addition of Twitter to the People Hub. The expanded capabilities announced today include:
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Copy and paste functionality via first major update, coming in the next month
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Twitter integration directly into the People Hub in 2011
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Support for Office documents in the cloud in 2011
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Dramatically enhanced Web browser experience based on IE9 in 2011
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A new wave of multitasking applications in 2011
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Targeting significant volume of Nokia Windows Phones in 2012
Full Press release here
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