Boston, MA 02/10/2014 (wallstreetpr) – For a trade journal writer one of the most resourceful areas to dig out information about the target company’s next moves is to drill into the job openings section of the company website. A similar cursory investigation of job postings placed by Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) gives away their plot. The next big app development move we can expect from the Redmond based tech major is with respect to developing a book reader app for its Windows 8 O.S.
Job Posting Throws Light On This Move
A recent job posting found in the open jobs section of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) lists out an opening for a software engineer who is skilled in building out a “groundbreaking interactive reading app on Windows, which incorporates books, magazines, and comics.” Long time watchers of the tech firm are of the opinion that candidates selected for this opening would end up working for the same group in the software firm, which developed the X box series of apps for Music, video and reading for the Windows 8 O.S which powers the company manufactured Notebooks, smart phones and tablets.
Mixed Signals
This move by Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) to build out a new book app has flummoxed analysts, since the IT giant already has a book reader in its portfolio, which is integrated to work with Windows 8. The speculation is gaining ground that the firm is working towards providing richer features and functionality to its existing reader by redesigning and rebuilding an app from scratch.
What gives credence to such commentary is the fact that the existing Reader app is a pretty rudimentary affair compared to other options available in the market like the Amazon and Android O.S based readers. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) reader is equipped to support only hand full of files like PDF, XPS, and TIFF files. If the latest moves being made by the firm come to fruition, then the new reader app will run on all windows hardware and O.S like “Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox 360, and Xbox One” just like the “Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps” currently do.
CEO Satya Had Foretold the Development
In a related development, it has come out in the press that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Office Suit team is also developing its own separate “Office Reader” app for Windows 8. This development ties in with statements alluded to company current CEO Satya Nadella had made in September last year, wherein he had hinted at the firm developing new applications which will have to co-exist and work seamlessly across the android, iOS and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s own Windows 8 platform.
