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WP7 Mango RTM? Not So Fast
It turns out that everyone who had been reporting on this (myself included) got it wrong. From the Windows Phone Developer Team Twitter stream: It was a nice idea while it lasted but my point about the carriers is still valid in my opinion. [Cross-posted at Winextra]
Windows Phone 7 “Mango” Released to Manufacturing: The Wait Begins
Microsoft has finally released the next update to Windows Phone, otherwise known as Mango, to manufacturing. Now, before you start getting all excited and everything, this doesn’t mean you are going to see it anytime soon on your Windows Phone. This just means that the update is now in the hands of the carriers so ...
Kinect Brings a World of Gaming for the First Time to Disabled Kids
Say what you will about Microsoft, but without Bill Gates and his dream our world probably wouldn’t look the same, and now another Microsoft product is looking to forever change the world for a whole new group of people in our society. Kinect has been a runaway success from the moment it was released, and ...
Microsoft Drops Out of Hulu Bidding (Maybe)
One of the worst kept secrets is that Hulu, the TV streaming service, is out looking to sell itself, and at one point it was speculated that Microsoft was one of the companies bidding for ownership. Well, according to Bloomberg Microsoft has decided to drop out, or so says the “person in the know”; but ...
A“Small Tiles” Concept for Windows Phone?
The team over at WPCentral had an interesting post up earlier today talking about an idea from a Windows Phone fan at the XDA forums about being able to “halve the size” of the Windows Phone tiles. Over at XDA, forum member tiny17 has come up with an interesting idea for a future Windows Phone UI design: ...
Spotify Coming to Windows Phone
For those of you hiding under a rock for the last week or so, the big news was the arrival of Spotify in the US, which of course lead to a massive number of all proclaiming that heaven had arrived on Earth and the music business would never be the same. On launch those of ...
So,What Went into Making SkyDrive’s Web Page So Fast?
One of the more interesting things that Microsoft has been doing lately is providing some nicely detailed background on the work that has gone into re-designing some of its web services. The latest one to get this treatment is SkyDrive’s web page with some background on how it was built previously to the newest refresh, ...
Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference Previews Upcoming Hardware
While much of today’s keynote on the second day of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference was about some pretty dry subjects, mainly targeting the enterprise market space, some time was taken show off some of the hardware that will be sporting Windows in all its various flavors. Much of the hardware like the new Samsung Windows ...
Microsoft to Show a Pre-Beta Windows 8 on July 10
Anticipation for Windows 8 is building, and Microsoft apparently is going to be using its Worldwide Partners Conference from July 10 to July 14 to show off a pre-beta build of Windows 8. There is also a rumor that not only will Microsoft be releasing this pre-beta to Microsoft gold partners, but that the company ...
Microsoft Picks Up 7 IDEA Awards for Design Excellence
As you are undoubtedly picking yourself up from the floor from laughing so hard at the thought that Microsoft would get any kind of award for design excellence, let me fill you in with the details of this momentous occasion. The annual International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) are handed out each year around this time by The ...
