The Windows Phone keyboard coming to iOS
Microsoft will also make available for Android and iOS keyboard operating system Windows Phone. The confirmation shall be contained in an email sent to some Windows users Insider. New multiplatform approach demonstration adopted by Redmond.
Microsoft has made no secret of his project to make available for operating systems other than Windows, Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile apps and services developed in the first person. Exemplary is the personal digital assistant Cortana case, released for both Android and for iOS, but examples can also be extended to other app notes like those that make up the Office suite. The ranks of the developed features for Windows Phone and intended to debut on competing platforms should be added in the native keyboard of the mobile operating system from Redmond.
The source of the news, reported by The Verge, is represented by an email sent to some members of the Windows Insider program with which Microsoft seeks iPhone users interested in trying the keyboard Word Flow. It is not yet clear when the new keyboard will actually be available for iOS, but the Redmond proves to be ready to test it on a large scale.
The native keyboard of Windows Phone, further enhanced with Windows 10 Mobile, is undoubtedly one of the most successful sections of Microsoft’s operating system, is rich in features – self-correction, suggestions, support for gestures, Swype input style – and can ask as a viable alternative to the native iOS keyboard.
The mail sent to users Windows Insider does not make explicit reference to the Android platform, but, taking into account the approach used by Redmond with other apps and services, cannot be excluded that the user has selected a device equipped with the Google’s mobile OS will use in the future, the same keyboard.
A modus operandi, to Microsoft, based on maximum openness to all platforms and operating systems, on the one hand, meets the Android and iOS users interested in trying the Redmond company’s software and on the other, is likely to generate a bit of discontent between the hard core of the Windows and Windows Phone users who see fade the exclusivity of apps and services undoubtedly well made.
