Microsoft's latest search share plan? Focus on mobile apps
"Applications, rather than the browser, are now the predominant windows to the world's information."
That's a claim in a recent Microsoft Online Services Division job post. But it's also the thinking of some inside the Microsoft Bing search team.
As I have blogged previously, Microsoft's AppEx (Application Experiences) team of a couple of hundred developers is the unit that built a handful of applications that have shipped as part of Windows 8 and Windows RT.
But how and why did it fall to the Bing team to create these programs?
"A lot of … Read more