Windows Phone 8 Unveiled: Microsoft Modernizes Its Mobile OS
It’s shaping up to be a huge week for Microsoft. On Monday, the company announced its Surface tablet platform at a hush-hush event in Los Angeles, and now Microsoft has unveiled Windows Phone 8 Apollo at its Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco.
Microsoft announced eight specific platform updates for its upcoming mobile OS. We’ve already covered one of the most consumer-facing updates, the new Start Screen,
but other changes include hardware-related features like multi-core
processor and memory card support, a revamped Internet Explorer 10,
shared native code between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, NFC support, a new Wallet hub, Nokia Maps, and Windows Phone 8 for business.
Many of these updates shouldn’t come
as a surprise, considering all the leaks and reports that came out in
February. Nor was today’s announcement
a full-fledged reveal like Apple’s iOS 6 presentation at WWDC.
