Microsoft announces Windows Phone 8
At its Windows Phone Summit today, Microsoft gave the press a sneak peek at the future of Windows Phone , their mobile smartphone operating system. The new Windows Phone operating system will be called Windows Phone 8. Although there will be many new end user features in the new version of the operating system, Microsoft is focusing on some of the features that developers would care about in this announcement. A large change in the latest version of Windows Phone is that the new OS will be based on the same core as the desktop version of Windows, so it should be easier for developers to write apps. This will also add some security features. The latest version of Windows Phone will support a new hardware standard. In the past, Windows Phone only supported single-core processors. In this new version of the OS, dual-core devices are now supported. Windows Phone 8 will also support new screen resolutions, like WVGA (800x480), WXGA (1280x768), and 720p (1280x720). And finally in this cate