BARCELONA: Microsoft announced an Internet-friendly revamp of its Windows Phone operating system to help capture new territory in the smartphone wars.
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer unveiled a series of improvements this year to Windows Phone, which got a major boost last week when it was adopted by leading phone maker Nokia.
The software titan is struggling far behind Google's hugely popular Android system and desperate to replicate some of its success in the Microsoft-dominated personal computer market.
"We need to give people the full web, the full Internet on their phone, like they've come to expect with the PC," Ballmer said at the mobile industry's annual get-together in Barcelona.
"Later this year we are going to release a version of Internet Explorer 9 (web browser) complete with hardware and graphics and other hardware acceleration for the Windows Phone," he added.
"The web in some senses was designed for the PC first -- we need to make it a first class citizen on the phone," he added.
Together with a free update for Windows Phone 7, which was released just four months ago, the company aims to provide a smoother web experience on smartphones that rivals surfing on a PC.
A prototype demonstration showed similar performance of moving graphics on a website between a smarthphone and PC.
It had markedly superior performance to other smartphone operating systems due to hardware acceleration, with graphics flowing fast and smoothly instead in shuddering slow motion movement.
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer unveiled a series of improvements this year to Windows Phone, which got a major boost last week when it was adopted by leading phone maker Nokia.
The software titan is struggling far behind Google's hugely popular Android system and desperate to replicate some of its success in the Microsoft-dominated personal computer market.
"We need to give people the full web, the full Internet on their phone, like they've come to expect with the PC," Ballmer said at the mobile industry's annual get-together in Barcelona.
"Later this year we are going to release a version of Internet Explorer 9 (web browser) complete with hardware and graphics and other hardware acceleration for the Windows Phone," he added.
"The web in some senses was designed for the PC first -- we need to make it a first class citizen on the phone," he added.
Together with a free update for Windows Phone 7, which was released just four months ago, the company aims to provide a smoother web experience on smartphones that rivals surfing on a PC.
A prototype demonstration showed similar performance of moving graphics on a website between a smarthphone and PC.
It had markedly superior performance to other smartphone operating systems due to hardware acceleration, with graphics flowing fast and smoothly instead in shuddering slow motion movement.
NIRAJ KUMAR
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