Five Free Apps From Microsoft You Should Know About
BANGALORE: It was only a year back when Microsoft extended its hands from Windows, and launched the best-of-breed Office suite app on Android. Contributing quite a bit to Android, Microsoft has taken a crucial step towards infiltrating the world’s most popular mobile OS, by developing over 40 apps, available to the smart device users in the Google Play Store. Years before Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft announced a “Cloud First, Mobile First” roadmap for the upcoming years, Google’s Play Store was already home to a several Microsoft apps. With each passing year, the number of apps Microsoft has contributed to the Google Play Store has experienced an exponential rise, including the complete Microsoft Office Mobile suite and many more. As Android is rapidly reaching to a point where Microsoft’s apps are replacing the Google ones, it delivers an added advantage to the apps existing on Android to have an added advantage of running on almost every modern device, according to www.geek.com.
With Microsoft’s movement to Android, a sheer number of its best mobile apps are designed and deployed over Android and other platforms as well. However, in present day’s app-based world, there are several such Microsoft apps on Android that the smart device users may not be aware of. A list of five such apps is listed below:
Citizen Next: It is Microsoft Garage project that is designed to help citizens connect to municipalities easily and effectively, and provides the ability to report civic issues or any other infrastructure concerns. The newly developed app combines the power of ubiquitous mobile computing, Bing Maps, and Bing’s location, along with relevant and available government online services to make cities and towns a better, safer, and healthier place to live in. Citizen Next app has presently been leveraged by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), and has plans to extend its wings across rest of the India.
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