{"id":182482,"date":"2016-01-18T08:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T08:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=182482"},"modified":"2016-01-18T08:02:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T08:02:04","slug":"microsoft-making-keyboard-app-for-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=182482","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft making keyboard app for iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ever since Apple began accepting third-party keyboards in iOS 8, we\u2019ve seen a huge influx of alternatives, including Android mainstays like SwiftKey. But now iOS is getting a keyboard from something of a surprising source: Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to The Verge, the company recently sent out an email to Windows Insiders (members of its beta-testing program) looking for iOS users who\u2019d want to try out the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s an interesting move by Microsoft, as it\u2019s hard to imagine the app \u2013 which would likely be free \u2013 being a significant source of revenue for the company, unless it ends up featuring some sort of Bing integration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That said, I personally think the Windows Phone keyboard is better than Apple\u2019s and perhaps better than Google\u2019s stock Android keyboard too. One of my favorite features is an integrated cursor for precisely navigating through text.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There\u2019s no word if Microsoft is planning on bringing the keyboard to Android too, but given the company\u2019s recent penchant for developing apps on both platforms, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There\u2019s no public release date for the keyboard yet. Microsoft tends to move from beta to public pretty quickly though, so it\u2019s likely only a matter of a few months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Thenextweb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Apple began accepting third-party keyboards in iOS 8, we\u2019ve seen a huge influx of alternatives, including Android mainstays like SwiftKey. But now iOS is getting a keyboard from something of a surprising source: Microsoft. According to The Verge, the company recently sent out an email to Windows Insiders (members of its beta-testing program) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}