Microsoft launches Guardian, a new app for Windows phone for women's safety

After the successful deployment across Microsoft India’s employees and their families, the IT giant on Thursday announced the availability of ‘Guardian’, a new safety application (app) exclusively for its Windows phone users, to the community at large.

Guardian enables users to switch on a ‘track me’ feature in the app that lets friends and family track them in real-time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map APIs or application programming interface.

Guardian was developed over six months by a group of Microsoft India employees within the Microsoft Garage. Guardian users can call for help through an ‘SOS’ alert button and also connect to security agencies, police and hospitals via this app in times of distress.

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