IT Support | Microsoft Is Ready To Ship You Mango.
Posted by The Blogging Desk on Wed, Jul 27, 2011
Ars Technica:
Windows Phone "Mango", the first major update to Microsoft's smartphone platform, has reached the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) milestone. Development has been completed, and the finished software has been sent to handset manufacturers and mobile operators for configuration and testing. Public release remains scheduled for fall.
Mango is a substantial upgrade, offering a wealth of features both for users—including Twitter and LinkedIn integration, Facebook and Windows Live Messenger chat, a hugely improved Web browser, turn-by-turn navigation, and rich Bing integration—and developers—a far more complete, capable API, limited multitasking, greater integration with built-in phone features—alike. The improvements all add up to make Mango a much more well-rounded and feature-rich platform than the original release, and do a good job of building on the foundations that the first release laid down: strong visual design, the aggregation of data, and the emphasis on making cloud services like Bing and Facebook an integral part of the platform.
We do have one employee here at Trigon with a Windows Phone as his personal phone, and we don't hold it against him. Why would we? He's been in the military and it would seem like an unwise situation. That and he just grew a mean mustache.
Point being, Windows Phone is in the same situation that the iPhone was in several years ago. Not many folks had them, but they could be considered a better phone than what everyone else was using. It was only a matter of time before the iPhone became the norm accross the planet Earth, so I wonder if that will happen with Windows Phone.
It certainly has some interesting new features, such as chat integration with Windows Live Messenger, Twitter and LinkedIn integration as well as new turn-by-turn navigation. Look for a full enterprise overview from Trigon very soon.
