Microsoft Investigation has created available for download a developer preview of its Windows Telephone seven + Cloud Solutions Software program Advancement Kit (SDK).
The new SDK is associated to Challenge Hawaii, a cellular research initiative which I;ve blogged about before. Hawaii is about using the cloud to enhance mobile units. The “building blocks” for Hawaii applications/services include computation (Windows Azure); storage (Windows Azure); authentication (Windows Live ID); notification; client-back-up; client-code distribution and location (Orion).
The SDK is “for the creation of Windows Telephone seven (WP7) applications that leverage investigation providers not yet accessible to the general public,
Office 2010 Professional Plus Key,” according to the download page.
The first two providers that are part of the January 25 SDK are Relay and Rendezvous. The Relay Service is designed to enable cellular phones to communicate directly with each other, and to get around the limitation designed by cellular service providers who don;t provide most mobile phones with consistent public IP addresses. The Rendezvous Service is a mapping service “from well-known human-readable names to endpoints in the Hawaii Relay Service.” These names may be used as rendezvous points that can be compiled into applications, according to the Hawaii Research page.
The Hawii team is working on other solutions which it is planning to release in dev-preview form by the end of February 2011. These include a Speech-to-Text service that will take an English spoken phrase and return it as text,
Office Professional 2010 Key, as well as an “OCR in the cloud” service that will allow testers to take a photographic image that contains some text and return the text. “For example,
Office 2007 Professional, given a JPEG image of a road sign,
Windows 7 Professional Key, the service would return the text of the sign as a Unicode string,
Office Standard 2007 Key,” the researchers explain.
Microsoft officials said earlier this week that the company sold last quarter 2 million Windows Phone 7 operating system licenses to OEMs for them to put on phones and provide to the carriers. (This doesn;t mean 2 million Windows Telephone 7s have been sold, just to reiterate.) Microsoft launched Windows Telephone seven in October in Europe. There are still no Windows Telephone seven phones out there from Verizon or Sprint in the U.S. Microsoft and those carriers have said there will be CDMA Windows Telephone 7s on those networks some time in 2011.
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