Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates, said there was almost no mention at the Windows Phone 8 launch of enterprise capabilities.

"It disturbed me that Microsoft didn't mention business users and the enterprise and that the event was very consumer focused," Gold said. He said that a brief discussion about using Sky Drive as the repository for Office documents should have merited more attention.

He added that the concept of "Rooms" could be applied to a group of workers, as well as to a family, although Microsoft didn't clarify the use.

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