Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Microsoft released 250 million dollars … on the keyboard – Gazeta.pl

SwiftKey is one of the most popular system keyboards for Android and iOS. Users of these OSes loved SwiftKey’a for comfort, great algorithm suggesting words and phrases and personalization. The keyboard SwiftKey is very complex, and at the same time does not adversely affect system performance.

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Not surprisingly, interest in the application Microsoft itself. The Redmond giant has been around for some time more boldly conceives itself on the mobile market. More recently, Microsoft acquired, among others, applications such as Wunderlist (task list) or Sunrise (calendar).

Interestingly, the Redmond company does not buy individual applications in order to develop them further as independent projects. All they have become (or will soon become) part of the ecosystem Outlook. It is no secret that the vast popularity of mobile email client Microsoft has made Outlook has become for the American company “pride and joy”.

Why Microsoft SwiftKey?

Is SwiftKey share the fate applications such as Sunrise? Perhaps. We can not forget that Microsoft already has in its portfolio the keyboard WordFlow, which eventually could be integrated into the SwiftKey’em.

What you need Microsoft is in fact not the application itself, but the algorithms that for it faces, as well as a powerful source of information on user behavior. Application developers recently estimated that thanks to built-in algorithms SwiftKey users “have saved” more than 10 trillion characters, which equates to approx. 100 thousand years written on the keyboard by one person.

Developers SwiftKey’a also ensure that the “join the family of Microsoft’s” SwiftKey will continue to live my life, and users Android and iOS and will be able to use it on their devices. Time will tell whether this statement will confirm the facts.

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​​Google Press Materials / Marta Kondrusik

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