Microsoft mobile services

Microsoft mobile services are a set of proprietary mobile services created specifically for mobile devices; they are typically offered through mobile applications and mobile browser for Windows Phone platforms, BREW, and Java. Microsoft's mobile services are typically connected with a Microsoft account and often come preinstalled on Microsoft's own mobile operating systems while they are offered via various means for other platforms. Microsoft started to develop for mobile computing platforms with the launch of Windows CE in 1996 and later added Microsoft's Pocket Office suite to their Handheld PC line of PDAs in April 2000. From December 2014 to June 2015, Microsoft made a number of corporate acquisitions, buying several of the top applications listed in Google Play and the App Store including Acompli, Sunrise Calendar, Datazen, Wunderlist, Echo Notification Lockscreen, and MileIQ.

Mobile service	App	Web	SMS	Exchange ActiveSync	Description	Status
Calendar Mobile		10px	10px	10px	Web-based version of Windows Live Calendar designed for mobile devices to view, schedule and manage calendar appointments and events. SMS service for users to query today and tomorrow's appointments in their Windows Live Calendar	Final
Contacts Mobile	10px	10px	10px	10px	Web-based version of Windows Live Contacts designed for mobile devices for access to contact information. Client-based version allows integration of the Windows Live contact list with the mobile device's address book. Also allow users to query contact information via SMS	Final
Groups Mobile		10px			Web-based version of Windows Live Groups designed for mobile devices	Final
Outlook Mobile	10px	10px	10px	10px	Web- and client-based version of Outlook that targets mobile devices, and allow new email alerts via SMS	Final
Windows Live Messenger Mobile	10px	10px	10px		Web- and client-based version of Windows Live Messenger that is designed for mobile devices, and allow users to send instant messages via SMS	Final
Profile Mobile		10px			View and update user's own Windows Live Profile information using a mobile device	Final
OneDrive Mobile	10px	10px			Web-based version of OneDrive designed for mobile devices for accessing documents stored on the cloud. Client-based version allows upload of photos directly from a mobile phone camera.	Final

Bing Mobile

Bing Mobile is a mobile website and collection of applications that serves as a central hub for Bing services and websites in the form of "cards" that present information in a similar manner as Google Now and enables Bing Rewards for US-based users. The Bing Mobile homepage shows the most popular search results in the form of a card, and can be personalised to show headlines based on the user's personal settings.

Bing for mobile browser - m.bing.com

Mobile browsing allows users to access Bing on their mobile devices through WAP or GPRS connection. The interface is optimized for viewing on mobile handsets. Users can:

Search the web for information
Get news information
Find local businesses in the user's local area
Get maps and driving directions
Get answers to questions
In the UK and Japan "Find My Location" to pinpoint a user's location

In the US on HTML-ready mobile devices such as iPhone, Android, and touch-screen Windows phones, further features are available:

Automatic location detection
Suggested local listings based on location and time of day
Save listings to Favourites, and send that list to friends
Movie listings with clips and trailers
Sports scores and stats, with real-time updates during games

The Bing for mobile browser is available in 31 markets worldwide.

Bing for mobile application

The Mobile Application is available as a Java ME application for non-Windows phones, as a richer.NET Framework application for Windows Phones, and as an application for BlackBerry OS, Android, iOS, and Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless. It provides local listings, maps, driving directions, and traffic conditions. Other features include:

Predictive text input
Browse and search through business categories
Image search and image exploration
Speech recognition search input
Search results include a phone number and address; users may click to call for an immediate connection
Send search results to others using SMS
Find maps for specific addresses
Get directions to and from a destination
Get turn by turn directions using a GPS receiver
View traffic information for major roads in selected cities
Get weather forecasts
View movie showtimes and theatres
Turn-by-turn navigation for Windows 6.x phones.
A hub in Windows Phone 7.x and later devices.
For Android it includes a built-in browser
Bing Rewards
The ability to set the device's lock screen based on Bing's daily images

The Bing app for iOS includes these further features:

Barcode and cover art scanning
Enhanced product listings
Social updates from Facebook and Twitter
Social search see results from social network alongside web results
Share search results on Facebook, Twitter, or through email

The Bing app is available in the US on a variety of Windows phones, Android platform devices, all BlackBerry devices, several BREW devices, iPhone and iPod Touch, and Sidekick devices.

Bing 411

In the United States, Microsoft operated a toll-free number for directory assistance called Bing 411. This service used voice search technologies powered by Tellme. Users are able to find and connect for free to local shops and restaurants and obtain driving directions, traffic reports, sports scores, stock quotes, weather reports through this service. These numbers were discontinued on June 1, 2012.
As a replacement for the above numbers, a non-toll-free number was set up at 330-247-7411. This number has also since been discontinued, with callers directed to dial 408-752-8052 instead.

Cortana

In 2014 Microsoft launched Cortana with the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, Cortana is a digital personal assistant with music searching capabilities and has the ability to tell jokes, show the latest headlines, predict sports events, enable "quiet hours" and show relevant local data using Foursquare.

Groove Mobile

Groove Music was launched with Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 as Xbox Music, a rebranded version of Zune, in Windows Phone 8 the service was included in the Music + Videos Hub and allows users to download the content they've bought via the Xbox Music Pass and stream it to their PCs. Originally Xbox Music was a Windows and Windows Phone exclusive application, but was launched in iTunes and Google Play in 2013 though the Windows Phone application did have more features than its counterparts but was criticised for unbundling several core features from the service such as podcasts and FM radio with the launch of Windows Phone 8.1.
In 2015 Microsoft enabled OneDrive integration that allows users to stream the songs they've stored on OneDrive via Groove Music. The service works only if the files are in a OneDrive folder named "Music" and otherwise can't detect any other songs. It currently only supports MP3, M4A, and WMA files.

JobLens and Internships Lens

JobLens, Boston University JobLens and Internships Lens are augmented reality applications, JobsLens was originally launched in 2013 and largely features the same user interface as the CityLens application, it uses the Here maps' LiveSight technology to visualise the possible employment options of the user, JobLens offers filters for specific jobs based on the user's preferences and jobs recommended by people in the user's social networks. JobLens gathers data from LinkedIn, Salary.com, and Zillow. JobLens users may use Microsoft OneDrive to store their CVs on.
Internships Lens is an augmented reality application developed by Microsoft Mobile in cooperation with Internships.com and works similar to JobLens. It also uses the Here Maps' LiveSight technology to augment possible employment information. Unlike JobLens, Internship Lens offers the ability to research employers. It has over 75,000 internships by over 40,000 but is largely limited to geography and offers mostly American information. The service doesn't function outside of the United States. Like JobLens, Internships Lens is powered by Nokia's HERE Maps service and can be launched from both the Microsoft Camera's lens feature and from the app launcher. Despite most Here powered services being owned by Nokia, Microsoft got the JobLens and Internships Lens after the acquisition.
Microsoft announced that they will retire the applications on June 1, 2015, from the Windows Phone Store.

Lumia Beta Apps

Lumia Beta Apps facilitates beta applications being developed by Microsoft or select 3rd party developers for Lumia products. The applications are of reasonably good quality, but may have rough edges and occasional service breaks, not commercialized yet, not guaranteed to be published, not officially supported, under active development, free of charge, not be used for commercial purposes.
Applications may graduate to become commercial offerings, or they will be archived along with the lessons learnt based on user feedback. Microsoft collects feedback through UserVoice and has since launched several new applications such as Cinemagraph Beta and Gestures. Originally the site was operated by Nokia but Microsoft moved the development to a more feedback-orientated design in August 2014 to allow more users to add their feedback rather than just Nokia-developers. Microsoft has discontinued the Nokia Camera Beta trial and re-released the Beta app as "Lumia Camera Classic" while implementing the new features in the Lumia Camera app, and has added OneDrive integration to Lumia Cinemagraph after first trialing it in the Lumia Beta Apps site. On 25 February 2015, Join Conference was made public for all Windows Phones but republished under the Microsoft Garage, and reduced the number of markets it was available in.