Microsoft reveals iPhone one-handed 'word flow' keyboard with predictive text

It came from an internal project called Garage designed to allow small startup-like projects to flourish within the firm. 'Garage projects are crafted and cared for by small teams across the company who are hoping you'll find the next thing you can't live without,' it says, and Garage has already produced dozens of apps for different platforms. Apple at first banned keyboards other than their own, but this all changed with the release of iOS 8, which gave developers the green light to create outside versions and added more features into its original keyboard – including next-word predicting technology. With Word Flow Microsoft really has broken the mould for keyboards, at at first, the strange arc mode is incredibly disorienting. However, after a few minutes, it suddenly begins to make sense, and although iPhone users may be intimated at first, it quickly becomes second nature.