Posted Oct. 29, 2012 at 6:23 a.m.
Windows 8 is the official name of the next version of Windows client, which as of Monday, only has three SKUs in the pipeline.
New York — Windows Phone 8 software, running on devices with better screens and more powerful chips, will rely for the first time on the same underlying programming code as the flagship Windows operating system. Microsoft, with just 3.5 percent share of the smartphone market in the second quarter, seeks to close a gap with Apple's more popular iOS and devices from Samsung Electronics Co. and other makers that use Google's Android....
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Windows 8 is the official name of the next version of Windows client, which as of Monday, only has three SKUs in the pipeline.
New York — Windows Phone 8 software, running on devices with better screens and more powerful chips, will rely for the first time on the same underlying programming code as the flagship Windows operating system. Microsoft, with just 3.5 percent share of the smartphone market in the second quarter, seeks to close a gap with Apple's more popular iOS and devices from Samsung Electronics Co. and other makers that use Google's Android....
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