May, 2011

Windows Azure Toolkits for iOS, Android and Windows Phone announced

Today, Microsoft announced Windows Azure Toolkits for Devices, consisting of assets for Windows Phone, iOS and Android. Using the toolkits, developers can use the cloud to accelerate the creation of applications on the major mobile platforms.

Windows Azure Toolkit

More Windows Phone 7.5 Mango consumer features revealed – Messenger in People Hub confirmed

Windows Phone 7.5 Mango with Chinese supportIt seems like today is “Mango” day, with several sources leaking information about the Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update. Earlier today via a podcast Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk revealed several consumer features coming in “Mango” – including Bing Vision, Bing …

New Windows Phone Mango consumer features revealed

A Windows Phone developer podcast hosted by Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk have some new good news for Windows Phone developers, and ultimately users.  Along with news about a new partnership between MetroTwit and Rowi, and an interview with Microsoft’s …

Bing Maps Part Two: is Streetside now Street Slide?

Just now when writing up the previous post on Bing Streetside coming to UK maps, we noticed something quite interesting: our Bing Maps Streetside has morphed into what Microsoft Research has called “Street Slide”:

seattle-streetslide

(You can click on the …

Bing Streetside coming soon to UK?

Bing Maps Streetside, which provides an “on the ground” look at mapping locations, allowing you to “walk” certain streets and see stitched together photographic images of the area, has only up until this point been available for certain parts of …

More on East Asian Language support on Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”

We all saw during the MIX 11 conference that Microsoft will be expanding language support to 16 different languages, including East Asian languages such as Chinese, Korean and Japanese:

East Asian Language support in WP7

It appears Long Zheng from iStartedSomething.com has more information about this …

Take the Microsoft Tour continues

This week Steve Clayton showed us a few places on Microsoft Campus. Pictures, videos, photosynth’s, all to satisfy your curiosity of what goes on inside those buildings at Redmond headquarters:

A tour of the Microsoft Home
A tour

New Bing Maps iOS SDK

Microsoft just released a new Bing Maps iOS SDK. This new SDK gives developers a set of Objective C classes to develop iPhone and iPad applications within Xcode, along with documentation and several sample projects to help them get …

Windows Experts Community: the Green Button evolved

TGBTwo years ago, Microsoft acquired TheGreenButton.com, at that time an independent site focused on Windows Media Center, with an active set of forums and users.  The Green Button, according to TheWayback Machine, was most active in 2005, but still …

Microsoft announces OAuth 2.0 support for Messenger Connect

oauthAt the Internet Identity Workshop today in Mountain View, Microsoft has announced that it will support OAuth 2.0 in the next version of Messenger Connect, according to a blog post by Dare Obasanjo on the Windows Live for Developers blog