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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…