Microsoft releases its first iPhone app (flag)

news.cnet.com — Is it possible some at Microsoft find the iPhone a more attractive platform than the software giant's own Windows Mobile? Microsoft's Seadragon on Apple's iPhone. (Credit: Microsoft) Engineers in the company's Live Labs have released the company's first application for Apple's popular ...

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Microsoft releases its first iPhone app
textually.org — ... Live Labs have released the company's first application for Apple's popular smartphone--even before making it available on Microsoft's own mobile platform, reports cnet news. ...

Seadragon Mobile: First Microsoft App for the Apple iPhone
PR News: — ... reports that Live Labs will not stop there, and have a host of other apps already in development. Microsoft’s Tellme unit was thought to be working on a voice activated search on a number of phones including the Apple iPhone; this should be due for launch soon. You have to wonder why there is not a Windows Mobile version of Seadragon yet; one of the reasons is because the iPhone uses accelerated graphics, many cell phones running on Windows Mobile does not. Read full article

Apple iPhone gains Microsoft Seadragon app before Windows Mobile?
Phones Review — ... Mobile, a free Apple iPhone app which was added to the Apple iTunes App Store on Saturday. Seadragon Mobile for the iPhone allows iPhoners to rapidly zoom in on images whilst online. Seadragon is also the mainstay of Microsoft’s Photosynth that allows users to gather a group of images and stitch them together into a faux 3D environment. So the thing is, why has Microsoft launched this app for the iPhone before their own platform? Any ideas? Source – cnet ...

Microsoft rolls out first iPhone app
Coolest Gadgets — ... showing off to users the possibilities of a mobile platform. A little bit of history class first - Seadragon is known as the backbone for Microsoft’s Photosynth, where the latter enables users to take a group of photographs while stitching them together later on into a faux 3D environment. Word on the street also has it that Seadragon won’t be the first or last iPhone app by Microsoft, as they might be working on a voice-activated search engine as well. Source: CNET ...