Microsoft to make Outlook easier to touch
A Microsoft job posting has provided clues into Microsoft's strategy to make its Office Web applications more friendly to touch-screen devices.
A listing that went up over the weekend for a software development engineer touts some of the successes of Microsoft's Outlook Web App (OWA), saying it has "made a huge difference in the daily lives of millions of users all over the world" but that the company is looking for someone to take OWA to "the next level" with a "next generation" client. That client would be for both the desktop and "the latest mobile and slate devices," the listing said. Read more...
Windows Phone 7 SDK comes with odd developer handset scheme
Late on Friday, Microsoft released a new version of the Windows Phone 7 software development kit. The new version for the first time supports the widely anticipated copy-and-paste functionality, allowing developers to build and test clipboard capabilities with their applications.
Using copy and paste on actual handsets will have to wait, however. More than three months since it launched, Microsoft still hasn't shipped any updates to its new smartphone operating system: for the time being, only the SDK's emulator and certain developer phones support the new feature. However, the new SDK suggests that a firmware update can't be far off. Read more...