report states that Cambridgeshire Constabulary believes that Windows Phone is the perfect replacement for their needs, and has already made the plans to switch public. In the words of Ian Bell, head of ITC at Cambridgeshire Constabulary:
“The security hasn’t been right with Windows Phone in the past, but it absolutely is now. Mobile device management providers have worked their socks off to be ready for 8.1 Phone release, and with the new encryption and new application VPN, it makes this platform become viable from a public sector perspective, while it probably never had been in the past. It is enterprise-ready as far as we are concerned.”It appears that the decision was made right after Microsoft made some announcements at BUILD 2014, and the department will be providing employees some 8,000 Windows Phone handsets in the next couple of months. And not just the most affordable ones too — the frontline staff will be getting the Nokia Lumia 1520 phablets, while executives are in line to get the Lumia 930 smartphones. A few Lumia 635 smartphones are also in the mix. All in a good day’s work for Microsoft, then, eh?]]>
This is the market they should go to first. Use their security to take over Blackberry’s share and then go from there. Good news for the Windows phone.
Microsoft have been slow to react here, but they are finally getting there. We can expect a lot more organizations to abandon Blackberry and make the transition to Windows Phone.
The amusing fact here is that they are not entertaining the thoughts of either Android or iOS here.
We will see more of this, the more Microsoft adds things to WP that make it a good business or enterprise phone. The feature gap has closed between other platforms, and now Microsoft can go on from there