Major manufacturers including Nokia, Samsung, HTC and Huawei will support the Windows Phone 8, the new operating system coming from Microsoft in the autumn.
Unveiled at Microsoft’s Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco, Windows Phone 8 will accompany the main PC and tablet operating system Windows Phone when it launches in October.
The support from a range of device manufacturers including HTC and Samsung will reassure app developers who had been fuelling the growth of Google’s Android and Apple's iOS at the expense of Windows Phone.
But it will present a further challenge to troubled BlackBerry because a host of the new features for Windows Phone 8 aim squarely at the corporate market. Nokia and Huawei will also be among the companies that help to launch Windows Phone 8 in 180 countries.
New features include security based on the same model as full desktop software because Windows Phone and Windows will share the same core ‘kernel’, as well as improved support for corporate email and integration with Microsoft’s suite of Office products. The Windows maker hopes that these will appeal to IT buyers previously keen on BlackBerry's platform.
The changes will also mean that developers will be able to write programmes once, but see them run on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Xbox. Microsoft hopes that support for three screen resolutions will allow it to simultaneously make progress in the battle for users living rooms, laptops, tablets and phones.
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