It’s a good thing for Microsoft that the tech world was pretty quiet this week, at least for news anyway. Because yesterday, today, and tomorrow was the Microsoft Build Conference in San Francisco. Now, this conference is mainly for independent developers who make applications for the Windows environment.
And right now, Microsoft needs these people badly if they are to succeed with all they have planned. And, they just may have hit a home run. One of their big announcements was the release of coding applications that can take iOS and Android applications and easily convert them for Windows Phone. As you may know, the Windows Phone is a minor player in the smartphone world…at approximately 5% of the user base. Of course, Android and Apple own that universe right now, but Microsoft wants to be a bigger player.
The biggest complaint against Windows Phone is its lack of available application. This latest move by Microsoft may just change that. It is a big mountain for Microsoft to climb to become a player…and frankly I am not sure it is possible at this late stage. It will just take a lot of time.
For us consumers, there was not a lot of news. The biggest story is that Microsoft has finally given their new Web browser a name. It was called Project Spartan…now the new and permanent name is “Edge.” It will be part of the new Windows 10 when it releases later this summer. You can read this and other important bits from the Build Conference in our first story.
And speaking of Windows 10, I got a new Evaluation Build today, and sure enough, Spartan is now called Edge. As I have said here before, I like the Spartan…oops…Edge browser. It is simple and very fast. As you might expect, every new evaluation build brings new features and you can read about this latest batch in story #3.
Microsoft has big, big plans for the future of Windows, and hopefully they can pull them off. More good information follows, so have a go at it! - JRC
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