Homegroups and Workgroups are an integral part of any person's personal or professional network system. At the heart of the Windows experience since Vista, Microsoft have missed a trick by not incorporating this feature natively in Windows Phone 8. Android's Es File Explorer is one of the most downloaded apps and rightly so. For a device that is always on, I cannot see a better experience than lounging in your bed with your phone, and being able to play a video that is on the shared folder of you home PC without having to transfer it on via USB or installing any ridiculous software on either my PC or my phone. Such a tool would trump Android as I'm sure Microsoft can build a perfectly great file explorer that incorporates network file sharing. Get this done and it will also open up Windows Phone to be built on a phablet. But before that can even happen, WP8 must support higher resolution screens (1080p and above).

Please check out my post Homegroups and Workgroups are an integral part of any person's personal or professional network system. At the heart of the Windows experience since Vista, Microsoft have missed a trick by not incorporating this feature natively in Windows Phone 8. Android's Es File Explorer is one of the most downloaded apps and rightly so. For a device that is always on, I cannot see a better experience than lounging in your bed with your phone, and being able to play a video that is on the shared folder of you home PC without having to transfer it on via USB or installing any ridiculous software on either my PC or my phone. Such a tool would trump Android as I'm sure Microsoft can build a perfectly great file explorer that incorporates network file sharing. Get this done and it will also open up Windows Phone to be built on a phablet. But before that can even happen, WP8 must support higher resolution screens (1080p and above).

For a company that has built 2 decade's worth of software on the fundamental notion of the File Explorer, it is ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE this it is not included on Windows Phone (as of a matter of fact, nor in Windows 8's modern UI [formerly known as Metro]). Microsoft, if you do read this, please note that THERE IS NOTHING more UBIQUITOUS than the File Explorer and hence is one of the main reasons people switch from using iOS products to Android products. The File Explorer gives the smart phone, the heart of a PC, and its absence thereof is the reason WHY many have not bought an iPad. Having a digital device without a File Explorer, especially a Microsoft one, is unforgivable and should be corrected immediately.

Please check out my post: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/winphone/forum/wp8-wppersonal/to-the-higher-ups-who-can-influence-windows-phone/9111ac69-daa9-42d3-a968-ea99a87ccd0d

I would like the file explorer to comprehensive, so much so that you could access shared folders on other networked computers.

Please check out my post, and comment if you agree,

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/winphone/forum/wp8-wppersonal/to-the-higher-ups-who-can-influence-windows-phone/9111ac69-daa9-42d3-a968-ea99a87ccd0d