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Are You a Professional Microsoft Hater? Here’s Your New Favorite Web App.
Just in time for the launch of Windows Phone 7 the folks at The Wolf Bytes brings you the Windows Phone 7 Failure Reason Generator. To get your anti Windows Phone 7 blurb hit the Spin button: Have fun. [Editor’s Note: A handy tool for anti-Microsoft bloggers is a post from: winextra. –mrh]
Microsoft’s Kinect Countdown
Looks like Microsoft might be looking forward to the day that Kinect hits consumers so much so that they have a great big honkin’ countdown timers keeping track of the days, hours, minutes left. [Editor’s Note: Microsoft counting down the days until Kinect launches is a post from: winextra. –mrh]
Windows Phone 7 to launch in Canada same day as US
Wow, this has to be a first. Canada is actually going to get something the same day that my friends in the US get to get their grimey mitts on some new toys. Yes folks, it is one of those rare moments in time where those of us in Canada who normally have to look ...
If this is the quality of games coming to Windows Phone 7 – WOW!
The first set of videos is from the game called Harvest and it is no wonder Microsoft has put its foot down when it comes to the handset specs. [Cross-posted at Winextra]
Nice IE9 image, but is this what we’ll see come September 15?
Much of the tech blogosphere is all a Twitter today over a discovery by Mary Jo Foley of a single image screenshot of Internet Explorer 9. This is the image making the rounds and subsequently taken down from the Russian Microsoft site where Mary Jo discovered it. Now I am not suggesting that this isn’t ...
Where are the Live Tiles for the Windows desktop?
When you look at the icons that many of us have littered around our desktop there is no denying that other than being program launching points they are pretty useless. In fact I dislike them so much that I don’t have a single program icon on my desktop because between Windows 7′s vastly improved taskbar ...
Microsoft on Social Media Marketing
Ran across this video on the Microsoft Advertising Blog where Kate Box the head of Social Media at Microsoft Advertising UK explains her role at Microsoft and why advertisers need to be engaged in social media as well as some possible future trends. Thanks to Charlie Anzman for sharing the original link. [Editor’s Note: Microsoft ...
Microsoft’s Bing heading to the sky to map the U.S.
Talk about all the luck. Robert Scoble takes an airplane ride somewhere and ends up scoring a couple hours with Eric Waldman who just happened to be sitting next to Scoble in the airplane. So who’s Eric Waldman? Well, Eric handles the licensing for Bing Maps and during the flight he shared some really cool ...
HTC Schubert: Windows Phone 7 Preview
In what will probably be only the first of many videos we will see over the coming months as more handsets start lining up to carry Windows Phone 7 the team over at WMPoweruser has a high quality video of the HTC Schubert, which we’ve embedded below. The interesting comment that they had about the ...
Community Blurt: From a Business Perspective
[Guest Post by By William Meloney, Created: August 7, 2010] In business we are holding our collective breath. The overall computing world is swirling about in new found clouds with Software as a Service (SaaS). Everyone is looking at thin clients, thin PCs, virtual desktops, virtual software and even virtual coffee (ok, I made that ...
