Perhaps the best new feature is the phone's deep integration with the cloud. Purchases you make within the Music Store will automatically be stored there so that you can listen to these songs on all of your Microsoft-branded devices i.
Every song or video associated with your Microsoft account will show up in your collection, and you can choose to stream them or download them so that you can listen later. Playlists receive the same treatment. This feature is supposed to let you stay up to date on the latest news connected to that artist by showing Twitter feeds, news feeds and images related to them.
As of this writing, Microsoft has not enabled the feature; we've been told to expect it sometime soon after launch. If there's one thing that Microsoft can't deny, it's the fact that the gaming experience was lacking on Windows Phone 7, despite the company's efforts to market its Games Hub in connection with Xbox Live.
Fortunately, the folks in Redmond seem to have realized that this needed to change in order for WP8 to gain more momentum -- when most of the top games are going straight to iOS and Android, Windows Phone has struggled to attract popular titles like Words with Friends until now. That's definitely a cause for concern. Of course, games don't a good OS make, but it's one of the factors that many people take into consideration when looking for a new smartphone. With that in mind, let's look at how Microsoft is addressing this issue.
First, it hopes that its integration with Windows 8 and use of native code will attract more big-name console developers that weren't previously willing to drain unnecessary resources into something like this. Adding the extra support will theoretically entice devs because it should be easy to port Windows titles over to the mobile OS and vice versa.
Also, WP8 will finally give devs the power to offer in-game purchases freemium, anyone? There's one aspect of the Games Hub that has us completely puzzled. The spotlight panel features a large list of gaming options that Microsoft wants to promote, but tapping on the links take us into a link on IE From there you can click on another link that will take you into the Windows Phone Store, but we have a hard time understanding why we need to be routed into the browser. We'd rather be taken either directly into the Store or at least a page within the Hub that loads faster and shows your options in an efficient manner.
Take the middleman out of it. We've been talking about the Windows Phone Store quite a bit throughout this review, and until now, we haven't actually discussed that it is, in fact, the rebranded Windows Phone Marketplace.
On the outside, nothing sticks out like a sore thumb; the renovations here are mostly of the behind-the-scenes sort. For starters, the revamped market is now powered by Bing Search, something that Microsoft says will bring you more relevant results and recommendations -- it now takes ratings into consideration when pulling up search results, as well as the rate of uninstalls and crashes.
Additionally, the Store now offers in-app purchases and multiple methods for you to pay up. Microsoft made it easier to find and enable these settings in Edge than in Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge work on mobile devices, but Edge only works with cell phones that run the Windows 10 operating system.
Even then, Microsoft suggests you use ActiveX controls to continue using Internet Explorer on your smartphone because not all apps have been optimized to work with Edge.
If you have the same Microsoft browser installed on both your mobile device and computer, your bookmarks, search history and browser settings sync across both devices so you can always access them. While Internet Explorer has a good balance of standard features, it is slow. In our tests, it took 4. Some sites only took about 2. Microsoft Edge is a little faster, but ultimately, it too was slower than average when navigating to websites and fully loading pages.
Best internet providers Best web browsers Best ethernet switches Cox internet review. CenturyLink internet review. Verizon internet review. Comcast Xfinity internet review. This does not occur with Desktop IE 10 under any circumstances, so it's puzzling that there are two versions of the same browser that behave very differently when performing the same common task.
Click to Enlarge Modern's version of IE 10 handles downloads very simplistically. When you attempt to download something, it asks if you want to run or save the file and then dumps it in your Downloads folder, which you can access via either the Desktop or Modern UIs.
Modern's version of IE 10 doesn't have a download manager to speak of. With IE 10, Microsoft opted to poke the online advertising bear by automatically switching the browser's "Do. Click to Enlarge Not Track" option on. Privacy advocates applauded the move, but private enterprises bemoaned Redmond's decision to prevent sites from tracking your browsing behavior by default.
This option can be switched on and off via the Internet Options menu in Desktop's version of the browser, but not Modern's.
New security features include HTML5 Sandbox, which allegedly prevents sites from executing scripts, opening popups and more. Browsed-based games have come a long way and Internet Explorer 10 could help play a pivotal role in the genre's evolution. IE 10's test-drive page contains a link to "Contre Jour," a game that was originally developed and distributed as a standalone application, but now has been developed for play on IE Multitouch physics paired with the game's beautiful artwork demonstrate the potential of browser-based games as well as the shrinking gap between application and Web-based titles.
The Desktop UI's version of the browser came in right behind it with a grade of Chrome version 23 scored All browsers used in testing were the most up-to-date versions.
In the RoboHornet Pro test, Firefox took the lead with a time of 4. The Desktop-based version of IE 10 came in second with 5. The Modern UI crossed the finish line in 5.
Firefox 10 also clocked in at 6 seconds, but with an Average Draw Duration of 07ms. Next, we cold booted each browser three times and set their home pages to MSN. Desktop UI IE 10 ended up with the best time of the bunch; 1. Modern UI IE 10 was a whisker behind with 1. Firefox kept up with the pair, notching a time of 1. Chrome lagged behind the rest at 3.
Then, we loaded up the New York Times homepage three times on each browser. Firefox came in second with 1. Click to Enlarge There's a lot to applaud with Internet Explorer It's touch-friendly, responsive and paves the way for more applike experiences in the browser. However, in its quest for a clean interface, Microsoft hid some options that we'd prefer to have visible at all times, such as tabs.
Moreover, IE 10 can feel like the Harvey Dent of browsers, with two very different UIs depending on whether you're using the Modern or Desktop version. While the Modern version is tailor-made for touch and has sharing features and Do Not Track, it omits some common features such as browser history available in the Desktop version.
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