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February 14, 2011  Microsoft answers back with Windows Phone 7
Microsoft during its Mobile World Congress event showed a trio
of major updates, among others, that will come to Windows Phone
7 later in the year and which it hopes will challenge Apple. The
platform will finally get multitasking and is using a system
heavily reminiscent of HP's webOS cards: jumping out shows all
of the running apps as thumbnails of their current state and
allows switching with simple flicks. Battery issues have
reportedly been tackled, and third-part apps now have a wide
range of privileges that includes background audio, among
others.  The company used a browser upgrade as an opportunity to
take a shot at iOS. WP7 will upgrade from the Internet Explorer
7 engine to the much faster and more accurate Internet Explorer
9 engine. Pages now load more accurately through graphics
acceleration and, in some case