Enables users keep files into the cloud

Jul 13, 2010 13:32 GMT  ·  By

Windows Phone 7, the new mobile platform from Microsoft, is expected to land on the market with tight integration with a nice range of services aimed at providing users with an enhanced experience. On the multimedia side, the operating system sports integration with the company's Zune service, while packing Xbox Live integration for games, or Windows Live for email, calendars, and the likes, in addition to Microsoft's own search/decision engine, Bing. On top of all these, is seems that users would also be able to benefit from a cloud service called Windows Phone Live.

“A feature we’re discussing for the first time today is the new Windows Phone Live companion site that gives people a central place to see pictures they’ve published, view their Windows Live calendar and contacts, exchange OneNote files and access other information shared between the phone and the Web. The site will offer 25GB of SkyDrive and host the Find My Phone service, which allows people to find and manage a missing phone with map, ring, lock and erase capabilities right from your PC – and all for free,” a recent post on the Windows Phone blog reads.

The new solution should become available for users as soon as the first handsets running under the Windows Phone 7 platform would land on the market. No specific time frame for when that might happen was announced officially, though previous reports suggested we should expect phones to be put on sale in October or November. The platform would arrive with support for 5 languages, including English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. Moreover, it seems that the paid content in the Windows Phone Marketplace should arrive in 17 countries, such as: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK and United States.

“This is a fresh start for Microsoft’s mobile efforts; one in which we put the end user experiences at the center of every decision we make, from architecting a new design and integrated on-phone experiences, to taking more accountability for the hardware and application development platform. We’ve implemented a more measured and structured philosophy to bringing phones to market so that customers have a great experience with the scenarios that matter most to them, thereby enabling us to establish a foundation for growth over the long term,” Microsoft's Aaron Woodman stated.