Switchfast Blog: The Future of IT
Another look at Windows Phone 7 for Small Business
Thursday, December 01, 2011 by Michael Lewis
Last year we wrote
several
blog
posts on what sort of impact Windows Phone 7 would have on the
cell phone market at large, and for small businesses in particular.
Windows Phone 7 came out with a boom of PR, but things quickly fell
silent. The first batch of phones with WP7 was released within a
month of Apple's iPad and first wave of mainstream Android phones.
The overwhelming success of the iPad, Droid Incredible, and HTC
Nexus One took the wind out of Microsoft's sales.
WP7 is far from dead. This fall, Microsoft and its hardware
partners launched a new generation of handsets. While the hardware
in this new crop of phones is nearly identical to past handsets,
Microsoft is highlighting improvements to the OS itself. Windows
Phone 7.5, or "Mango," brings deep integration of social features
and search into the phone's interface. Unlike the design
free-for-all of Android or the app-centric iOS, nearly all aspects
of communication are baked directly into OS. We had a hard time
understanding how this would work - but it turned out we were not
the only ones.
To help promote Windows 7.5, Microsoft has launched a web-based
demo of the interface designed to run in their competitors'
mobile browsers. The demo will guide you through different
features of the OS's interface.
Windows Phone 7 has a lot that a small business person would
need. With 7.5, WP now has full support for Exchange syncing. For
people on the go, WP can create and edit documents in native
versions of MS Office.
Until next time -
Mike Lewis
Switchfast Technologies
Chicago IT Support &
Consulting
DC IT Support &
Consulting
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