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Microsoft Word Flow 2.0 has Bing-powered GIF search, contact and business lookup

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Jules Wang

It’s been four months since Microsoft struck on a keyboard for iOS that made typing with a single thumb’s arc a whole bunch easier. Now, if only there were a way to add a GIF to it.Well, Word Flow 2.0 is now out and it comes with a bunch of new, internet-powered features like a search function for emoji, images, GIFs, businesses, news, facts, videos, contacts, blah blah blah… all of it powered by Microsoft’s own

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Microsoft Word Flow keyboard brings its curved one-handed typing to iOS

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Stephen Schenck

Beta testing can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different developers. Some use it as a last once-over, exposing some pre-release software to a segment of the public in order to help uncover any not-yet-spotted bugs. Others seem to use it as a nearly perpetual testbed where new features make their debut shortly before hitting an app’s public build. So when we see an upcoming app make its beta debut, as happened with Microsoft’s Word Flow keyboard for iOS a couple weeks back, we ...

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Microsoft Word Flow keyboard enters beta testing on iOS with one-handed curved Arc mode

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Stephen Schenck

A good software company is inventing new roles for itself all the time, looking to connect with users wherever it can and deliver the software solutions they need. Recently we’ve seen Microsoft really stepping up its efforts with keyboard apps, delivering its shortcut-laden Hub Keyboard for both Android and iOS platforms. But the Hub Keyboard hasn’t been the only Microsoft software keyboard we’ve been ...

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Microsoft said to buy Swiftkey, but will the company take full advantage? [UPDATE: confirmed]

Posted on February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 by Jules Wang

The Financial Times is sourcing “people familiar” to report that Microsoft will acquire TouchType, the company that makes algorithm-assisted keyboard app Swiftkey, for $250 million.This is the Microsoft’s first acquisition of a mobile-centric services provider in 2016. It acquired the developers of the Accompli, Sunrise Calendar,

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Microsoft Word Flow keyboard on iOS has arced, one-handed config

Posted on January 26, 2016January 26, 2016 by Jules Wang

It’s been more than three years in the making and only now is it getting out to the public. Microsoft has been researching how to craft an entire on-screen smartphone keyboard fit for one-thumb use. The company sent out invitations for beta testers to try out the Word Flow keyboard on iOS just last week.We now have snaps of what’s going on ...

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