A allocation of you people know me in the role of “the Windows Phone man.” finished the previous five years I’ve been co-managing the Windows Phone result team on a mission to give somebody no option but to Windows Phone a delightful and flourishing platform. Recently my chore distorted to focus not righteous on Windows Phone but too on the user experience of Windows 8 and coming versions of Windows. In the present day scratch Parker and I had a risk to conference to media and analysts from around the earth attending mobile phone earth lower house taking part in Barcelona—we shared a quantity of updates on the order of Windows and Windows Phone, and we announced a contemporary stage taking part in our arrangement to remain growing and scaling Windows Phone globally.
Windows Phone: Growth taking part in the stay fresh day
Let’s start with Windows Phone.
We’ve practiced steady growth taking part in modern years due to our “highly personal” come near to to the smartphone experience and the amazing campaign we’ve seen from our hardware partners HTC, Huawei, Nokia and Samsung. Cool we’ve solidified our spy together with the top three operating systems and celebrated a quantity of impressive milestones:
Accepted in the role of the fastest growing OS with 91% year-over-year growth taking part in 2013 (IDC, February 2014)
New than 10% share across Europe—which is new than lookalike compared with stay fresh day. (Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, January 2014)
The majority foremost to me, we’ve seen sharp customer satisfaction data—a information with the purpose of even our competitors include acknowledged!
Reached grave load taking part in the Windows Phone hoard (now finished 240,000 apps) and are still growing – fast – with an standard of 500 apps added apiece era. We’ve had fundamental additions such in the role of Instagram, plant, Waze and Mint—and in the present day, we announced Facebook herald long for be there open taking part in the launch weeks.
This previous day was especially eventful in the role of we delivered three updates to the Windows Phone platform—we continued building the platform elsewhere designed for degree (via contemporary chipsets, contemporary carrier/country support, and new screen sizes) and we enabled a quantity of downright scenarios designed for customers (e.G. The Nokia Lumia 41 MP camera and difficult camera features).
Contemporary Windows Phone Hardware Partners
Broadly speaking, our partners overall are the engine of growth designed for Windows. Taking part in addition to our downright partners HTC, Huawei, Nokia and Samsung, in the present day taking part in Barcelona we announced we’re without hesitation working with nine contemporary Windows Phone partners, plus: Foxconn, Gionee, JSR, Karbonn, volcanic emission (Xolo), Lenovo,LG, Longcheer and ZTE. Collectively, Windows Phone partners give somebody no option but to up an impressive 56 percent of the worldwide smartphone bazaar, according to IDC.
This is exciting news designed for phone buyers around the earth. With seven of the top 10 worldwide OEMs—in addition to a quantity of of the leading brands taking part in figurines, India and Taiwan— without hesitation collaborating with Windows Phone, you can expect to grasp an incredible contemporary range of campaign across screen sizes and value points. And of track we’re committed to delivering this device diversity with no compromising the coherent, designed-around-you Windows Phone experience our users include full-grown to sweetheart.
A quantity of of these partners are names with the purpose of might not be there familiar to you, but they’re leading the worldwide growth taking part in the smartphone type. They bring competitive products to bazaar as of their wisdom of the resident markets, channels and consumers. They are foremost partners with the purpose of long for help broaden availability of Windows Phones to contemporary and emerging markets.
Contemporary Windows Phone Hardware Support
Getting a wider range of device builders to create Windows Phones essential us to enable even new hardware flexibility and to give somebody no option but to the engineering process of building a Windows Phone even easier. Along these lines we too announced:
We are tally support designed for Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 and 400 progression chipsets, with options with the purpose of support all main cellular technologies, plus LTE (TDD/FDD), HSPA+, EVDO and TD-SCMA. We long for too support soft keys and dual SIM somewhere our partners need it designed for their campaign. Solitary finicky benefit of these additions is with the purpose of many hardware vendors long for be there able to assistance the same hardware designed for both robot and Windows Phone campaign.
To streamline the process of building a Windows Phone device, in the present day we launched the Windows Hardware Partner Portal so with the purpose of all our hardware partners long for include turn access to the tools and content wanted to build and bazaar their Windows Phone campaign efficiently and cost-effectively.
We too are working thoroughly with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. To help manufacturers anywhere taking part in the earth quickly and certainly broaden their portfolio by building Windows Phone campaign through the well-established Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD) series. Making it easier designed for manufacturers to take plus of reference design options is an foremost step designed for Windows Phone. ABI examine explanation a main smartphone industry scheduled time towards reference designs since they race instance to bazaar, and estimates with the purpose of new than 400 million reference design smartphones long for be there shipped taking part in 2014.
Evolving Windows 8
In the role of part of my “new chore,” I talked in the role of well on the order of Windows on medicine and PCs, and what did you say? To expect from us taking part in the nearby coming.
We are committed to making Windows the unsurpassed place designed for our partners to build downright campaign. In the present day with the purpose of process atypical screen sizes, input methods, connectivity needs, and running scenarios. Exceeding all, we need with the purpose of experience to feel natural designed for our customers. We need it to be there familiar and tailored to the device. We need your stuff to be there in attendance veto subject somewhere you are, glad designed for whatever you need, and we need it to run beautifully on hardware made by partners around the earth.
With Windows 8, there’s veto doubt with the purpose of we made a vast wage and took a foremost step for with the purpose of coming. We wage on feel and on mobility taking part in a vast way, and incorporated a fresh take on what did you say? A touch-based interface might be there designed for customers. We believe greatly taking part in this direction and the coming long for remain to build on Windows 8.
We shipped Windows 8.1 taking part in under a day taking part in response to customer and partner reaction, and we’ll remain to refine and get well Windows to dispense a productive and delightful experience designed for all users on all campaign. And, you’ll grasp us remain on a new rapid issue cadence somewhere we dispense ongoing help to all your Windows campaign.
Finished the after that little months, we’ll remain to dispense innovation and series with an bring up to date to Windows 8.1, launch this spring. We’re especially excited on the order of several things I need to preview with you now.
We’ll enable our partners to build reduce cost hardware designed for a downright Windows experience next to highly competitive value points.
We are making improvements to the user interface with the purpose of long for sincerely overpass feel and desktop, especially designed for our mouse and baby grand users. We include a come to of under attack UI improvements with the purpose of keep our highly satisfying feel experience intact, but with the purpose of give somebody no option but to the UI new familiar and new suitable designed for users with mouse/keyboard. Don’t disquiet, we still sweetheart and BELIEVE taking part in touch… but you’ll like how much new smooth and suitable these changes give somebody no option but to mouse and baby grand assistance!
We are enhancing support designed for activity customers via a little tweaks, particularly plus skin tone with the purpose of greatly get well IE8 compatibility taking part in Internet voyager 11, which is especially grave designed for web-based line of selling applications. Additionally, we’re extending mobile phone device management capabilities and making consumption easier.
New news still to draw closer
Speaking of our activity customers, we are too rigorously next to drudgery on delivering a compelling contemporary bring up to date designed for Windows Phone with the purpose of long for add fundamental skin tone designed for consumers, in the role of well in the role of a vast investment taking part in activity customer capabilities, plus VPN, S/MIME support, activity Wi-Fi, extended mobile phone device management and certificate management. Along with a host of downright developer and consumer help, we expect to dispense this to customers this spring with contemporary phones following in the role of we move into summer.
2013 was an exciting and eventful day wedge complete of vast changes taking part in our industry and next to Microsoft. I’m really excited on the order of bearing in mind what did you say? The contemporary and ardent technologies are in the role of mobile phone earth lower house opens tomorrow, and even new excited on the order of the drudgery we’ll be there able to dispense designed for customers, partners and developers finished the after that several months. Stay tuned!
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