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Windows Phone Support Tool helps support early NoDo updates

In order to help out Windows Phone users that had problems with the early NoDo updates, perhaps even bricking their phones, last week Microsoft released a Windows Phone Support Tool (rev 2.4), which aimed to fix problems that prevent Windows …

Zune Update news: new apps, new markets

A couple of tidbits coming from our friend Travis at Entertainment Connected (www.enterconnected.com), looks like not only are there some new apps on the Zune Marketplace, but the Marketplace is showing up in more places, including India, …

Bing shows off HTML5: getting closer?

(note: no April Fool’s jokes here today, unless you consider the whole NoDo release one big Microsoft prank)

Microsoft Advertising held its “Imagine 2011” event in Redmond this week, bringing together advertisers and industry insiders to talk about …

ActiveViews: the future of Hotmail

Today at a session at the Web 2.0 Expo here in San Francisco, Dharmesh Mehta is taking the stage to show off Hotmail’s expansion of ActiveViews, its in-the-web-client solution bringing live interactive JavaScript directly into emails from participating partners.

We …

IDC: Windows Phone will be #2 platform by 2015

Apparently the recent snafus with the NoDo update haven’t soured IDC on the platform, as the internet research firm released a report this morning predicting that Windows Phone, with a projected 67% year-over-year growth rate, will eclipse Apple’s iPhone to …

The Windows Phone PR debacle: will Microsoft ever learn?

neroThere have been a number of incremental news stories regarding the Windows Phone NoDo update since we last posted on the subject – unfortunately none of them are either good or even have much to do with the update itself.  …

Twitter on Bing/News; Bing on Facebook-not so much

A pair of social networking tidbits featuring Bing – first, according to a tweet tipping Search Engine Land by Bing Program Manager Min John Lee, Bing Social is now surfacing  “Public Updates” on the news results page.  The streamed tweets …

Windows Phone: A “strong start” in Australia – IDC

hd7main-420x0We realize we’ve been hammering Microsoft and the carriers for the NoDo update debacle, but think of it as “tough love” – we really like our Windows Phones, we want very much for the platform to succeed, and like a

Microsoft blows more smoke with another “Windows Phone Update” update post: we cull the best comments

smokeAfter Microsoft posted two Windows Phone update charts, Eric Hautala, General Manager, Customer Experience Engineering (wait – they’re ENGINEERING this customer experience?  That explains a lot!) also posted on the Windows Phone blog, seeking to explain where the …

Microsoft releases “Where’s My Phone Update?” chart: we want to cry

Picture 8487Microsoft today, in what must be considered either an attempt at clarification or a perverse form of torture for Windows Phone owners, published a set of charts purporting to show the “status” of the NoDo updates by phone model (…