Microsoft's marketing chief confirms new 'breakthrough' phone, talks Windows 10 upgrade push

Flanked by Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft veteran Chris Capossela appeared on Windows Weekly via Skype to provide insight into the company’s activities over the past year. Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer and former speech writer for Bill Gates offered tantalizing details around Redmond’s phone hardware efforts, yielded no concessions on the relentless and unclear upgrade push in Windows 7 and 8, and spun Azure as being light years ahead of Google and Oracle’s business cloud efforts. Surface Phone In the interview, Foley pressed Capossela about Microsoft’s lagging mobile efforts, saying she’s “abandoning ... Read the source article at Neowin