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If Windows Phone 7 numbers are silly, then Android and iPhone numbers are crap
One of the subjects that Paul and I were talking about recently on Daily Brief; before Skype died on us, was the fuss being raised around the released numbers for Windows Phone 7 Sales. At this point, the number being floated around is 1.5 million units. This of course has brought out the naysayers and ...
Microsoft continues its marketing experiments with Windows Phone 7
From the Metro UI to the “Really” ads, the Windows Phone 7 team seems to be able to operate outside of the typical Microsoft marketing department rules and regs that have ruined more than their fair share of the company’s products, often turning them into jokes. This outsider trend appears to be continuing with an ...
Retailers being told 250GB Xbox 360 is in short supply
Who would have thought, even a year ago, that one would see a headline like the one for this post. The fact is though, according to a post at Fudzilla, Microsoft is warning retailers not to expect any new shipments of the 250GB size Xbox 360 in time for Christmas. Apparently, the spike in sales ...
Don’t split the company, split the brand
Over the past few weeks, we have heard people calling for everything from taking Microsoft private to splitting up the company, and for the most part those ideas have been shot down. I will admit at one time that I thought that the idea of splitting up the company into three divisions, Consumer, Corporate, and ...
Holy Cat! This Kinect hacking is getting downright awesome
I just stumbled across the work being done by Robert Hodgin as he videoed his manipulating of his Kinect data realtime with Cinder. The more I see being done with Kinect, and with Microsoft’s blessing, the more I think we are in for some pretty incredible times ahead. Kinect in Cinder, Hello World from flight404 ...
Top picks from a honkin’ big list of Windows Phone 7 tips
I don’t have a Windows Phone 7 handset yet, but I am really hoping for one in the new year so I’ll be bookmarking this list of 72 tips from Pocket-lint for future reference. In the meantime, here’s my top picks of their tips. Removing apps from the Start screen You like the app, but ...
Is there a new Zune HD on the horizon?
“The big brown brick”. That is what the first Zune media player was often referred to as. Then when the Zune HD was released it was generally well received, even by tech pundits who had previously discounted the original Zune. Either way, the tech world has been more than willing to proclaim the Zune and ...
The Pros and Cons of Microsoft’s Embracing HTML5 While Ignoring Silverlight
Mary Jo Foley created a little bit of a firestorm in the Microsoft world. Especially the developer community, when she quoted Bob Muglia, Microsoft President of Server and Tools Business division, saying that the company was shifting it’s attention from Silverlight to HTML5. Apparently it seems that even while Muglia feels that Silverlight will continue ...
Could Microsoft have bought itself a Windows 7 tablet user interface?
Before I begin Let me make this perfectly clear – this post is pure unadulterated speculation on my part. Now that that’s out of the way… One of the big problems that Microsoft could have when trying to bring a Windows 7 tablet to market, is that the general opinion from the world of tech ...
The risky world of Windows
Steve Ballmer set the tech blogosphere alight this past week when he said that Microsoft’s riskiest bet would be the next version of Windows. Where many tech pundits would have suggested that Windows Phone 7 would have been the more appropriate answer I would have to agree with Ballmer’s assessment. To understand why Ballmer feels ...
