Windows Phone 8.1 Is Now Ready to Storm the Enterprise Phone Market

This week, Microsoft has finally lifted the veil off its next mobile operating system release, which will arrive on devices in the form of Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1, meant to finally push the platform well into the enterprise level.

Over the past few years, the Redmond-based company has included a great deal of enterprise-tailored capabilities in Windows Phone, yet the newly announced OS flavor comes with even more of them, making it finally a great fit for businesses of all sizes.

Set to become available for download as a Developer Preview release sometime in the next several days, Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 arrives on devices with a nice set of features that will make it a great option for any IT administrator.

One of these is Apps Corner, which enables users to set applications to be displayed in a sandboxed mode, thus allowing system administrators to restrict access to specific software on the device. Phones can be set to boot straight into an app, something that businesses might find highly appealing.

Additionally, the upcoming OS version arrives with some privacy and security improvements, among which support for virtual private networks (VPNs), thus allowing employees to send and receive data more privately than before.

More details here:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Wind...torm-the-Enterprise-Phone-Market-453273.shtml

 

It will be interesting to see how Microsoft plans on taking back market share from Apple.