The Windows Phone platform has been at the center of controversy this week, when the NYPD made it official that it was ditching all 36,000 of them that were in use by police officers. And instead, moving to iPhone by the end of the year. Deputy Commissioner Jessica Tish was particularly bashed earlier this week for...
Ouch! It was a year and half back, almost to this day that the NYPD made it official that it was issuing some 36,000 new Windows phones to its officer in the field. This was part of its $160 million NYPD Mobility Initiative, in conjunction with Microsoft, which Mayor Bill de Blasio hailed as a step into the 21st...
This is big stuff. The NYPD is currently testing various Windows and Windows Phone powered devices, as part of a trial. The organization is said to be considering making a switch to Microsoft products. According to reports, the New York Police Department was granted a $160 million budget to replace the tools officers...
There are only a few certainties in life, and one is that the majority of the corporate and enterprise user base of BlackBerry is going to transition over to Windows Phone in the near future. In fact, the UK, often said to be BlackBerry’s most important market, is already doing so. Microsoft’s mobile platform is...
And you thought you loved Skype? Just ask Roy Hicks, a 79-year-old man residing in South Africa. There is a fair chance that he loves Microsoft’s VoIP platform more than anyone else in the world. His life was saved thanks to Microsoft’s Skype platform. A report published by News24 says that Hicks was talking to his...