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Microsoft’s Belfiore Sorry for Appearing Insensitive with Windows Phone Statements
n a Channel 9 interview on March 25, Joe Belfiore made a few statements regarding the whole update mess that is plaguing Windows Phone 7 that saw quite a bit of backlash right across the tech blogosphere, including my post on the subject. It turns out that Belfiore has been reading many of those posts ...
Microsoft Launches a “Where’s My Phone” Page for Windows Phone 7 Users
Where’s My Phone Update page -select local (click for bigger view) For as much promise that Windows Phone 7 held for both Microsoft and consumers, the smartphone platform is facing a lot of negative feelings when it comes to its update process. First we had the pre-update update that either didn’t get sent out by ...
Microsoft Goes on the Offensive, Shuts Down the Biggest E-Mail Spam Botnet
30 million spam emails a day. That is how many that the Rustock email spamming network was putting out until it suddenly went dark, and Internet security experts didn’t have a clue as to why. Well it turns out that Microsoft, along with the U.S. Marshal Service, was responsible. It was all a part of ...
Talk About an Update Dance – All Versions of Internet Explorer in 8 Minutes
A few weeks ago we saw the video of Andrew Tait as he upgraded every version of Windows from DOS to Windows 7 go viral on the web. Well he’s back folks and this time he takes us through the upgrading of every version of Internet Explorer and how they each did in the web ...
Zune Desktop and Podcasts: A Bit of a Mess
I am a big fan of the Zune Desktop application, and for the most part it works pretty flawlessly. For the most part. Except when it comes to podcasts for some reason. I have been using Zune Desktop for the better part of six to eight months, and it has totally replaced my use of ...
Microsoft Ups its Donation to #SupportJapan
Over the weekend there was a big kerfuffle following a tweet posted by Bing where they were willing to donate $1 for every retweet of their original message up to a maximum of $100,000. In the mess that followed, the social media dweebs got their panties all up in a bunch and accused Microsoft, and ...
Nevermind that Silly Sheen #tigerblood, Bing’s Bringing #kittenblood to SXSW
For those of you that have been hiding out under a rock, you might not have heard that there is a really big tech event going in Austin Texas this coming week. It’s something called SXSWi (otherwise known as South X SouthWest interactive) and it has become a the tech geek pilgrimage. This year though, ...
Microsoft Still Accounting for Workers in Japanese Earthquake Aftermath
The earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 has been devastating for the country on the whole, and as it tries to pick up the pieces, companies like Microsoft are assessing the damage done to their offices as well as trying to account for the whereabouts of their Japanese employees. In reaction to the ...
Microsoft to Keep IE Developer Previews Flowing until Internet Explorer 10
This is definitely a change of pace for Microsoft, but according to Tom Warren at Winrumors Microsoft plans on keeping up with the developer previews of their future work on Internet Explorer even though IE9 is being released on March 14. In the past the company has gone into stealth mode once a product has ...
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Trial Apps proving to Be Successful
On March 8, 2011 the Windows Phone Developer Blog posted about some changes that have been made when it comes to the Marketplace policies as well as some regional access info and general tips. There were a couple of things that caught my eye in the post that I found rather interesting. The first one ...
