Microsoft has released apps for News,
Finance, Weather, and Sports on
Windows Phone 8.
The apps can be downloaded free of
charge through the Windows Phone
Store. Microsoft has detailed the apps
in a blog post.
The Bing News app features headlines
and videos of breaking news and is
customisable, allowing users to track
specific story categories, topics, or
news sources. It also allows users to
rearrange headline clusters to keep
news that's relevant to them at the
top.
Microsoft has partnered with editorial
and news agencies including Associated
Press, Reuters, Gizmodo, and The
Guardian, among others, in addition to
other local and regional sources. In
India, the app features NDTV, India
Today, IBN Live and Reuters for local
news. The app also supports Live Tiles
and users can also pin a favourite news
source or a personal topic to their
Start screen for quick access.
The Bing Sports app offers recent
scores, top sports headlines, videos,
photos, schedules, standings, statistics
and other content across most major
sports, including soccer, football,
baseball, cricket, racing, tennis, hockey,
and basketball.
The Bing Weather app offers up-to-
date current conditions including
temperature, precipitation and
wind.The app also dynamically updates
the live tile based upon the user's
current location. They can also save
other locations to get the weather.
The app offers weather with dynamic
maps for cities or regions in a number
of categories including satellite,
temperature, precipitation, cloud cover
and radar. Users can also check daily
weather conditions, historical data and
view charts for temperature and
precipitation through the app.
The Bing Finance app offers financial
news, market info, currency
conversions, stock updates for the US
and customisable interactive charts.
Users can set up a watchlist to track
their stocks and pin individual stocks to
their phone's Start screen for live tile
updates. Users can also track
performance of a stock, browse news
about the company, stock statistics
and an overview of the company. The
financial info is provided through tie-
ups with Bloomberg, CNBC, and Fox
Business.
Microsoft had also launched similar
apps on Windows 8 in October 2012.
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