"These live tiles are the heart and soul of the Windows Phone, " Belfiore said.
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Time and again Belfiore illustrated probelms with the real world, and how Windows Phone 8 would help them.
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"We wanted the software experience to fundamentally focus on what is most important to each individual user, " said Joe Belfiore of the firm at the launch.
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