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Windows Phone 7 unlocker

Long Zheng, Rafael Rivera and Chris Walsh released ChevronWP7, a Windows Phone 7 unlocker.

This tool will allow you to deploy (sideload) any third-party Windows Phone 7 applications without requiring a Marketplace developer account. The unlocking process does

Bing Image of the Day desktop gadget

Who thought desktop gadgets were dead since the release of Windows 7 is wrong. Turns out Microsoft even released a new one on November 3rd.: Bing Image of the Day
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What is it? It’s a Bing Search box which utilizes …

Find Windows Phone 7 Apps with Visual Search [Updated]

We already told you that you can find and download iPhone apps via Visual Search. Now you can also find your Windows Phone 7 Apps the same way via the Bing Visual Search Gallery for Windows Phone 7 apps.

Windows Phone 7 development for beginners

No knowledge of C#, Silverlight or mobile development and developing Windows Phone 7 applications sounds appealing to you? No worries, you can still learn!

Channel 9 has just started a new series that teaches beginning developers with little programming experience …

Windows 7 + Windows Live: to the Cloud!

There’s a new Windows 7 + Windows Live website showing off Windows Live’s capabilities in the cloud.

There’s lots to explore on the site! As you can see the site is divided in 3 sections:
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Windows Live Photo Gallery

Games, games, games…

Coming today to Windows Live Messenger 2011 in the US, UK, France, Canada, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Turkey: The Messenger Game Tab. Games Tab
The games tab UI will be localized in all of these markets, but …

Windows Live/Bing Photo Contest winner!

The winner of the Windows Live/Bing Photo Contest is……image
Somana Konganda with this picture of Mount Rainier in Washington state.

Congratulations Somana!

There were so many stunning entries for this contest that the team has put some of their favorites …

Tech•Ed Europe Keynote Live today

Tech•Ed Europe kicks off today, and you can watch the keynote live here.

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The keynote in other time zones

Xbox Kinect brings Messenger Video chat to Xbox 360

Xbox Kinect is now available in the US – and soon, around the world. At Windows Live they are very excited about this because it gives our more than 300 million Messenger users worldwide a new way to stay connected …

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace open to all

imageThe Windows Phone 7 Marketplace is now open to all to submit your apps. Developers can do so at App Hub.

App Hub is the website created just for Windows Phone and Xbox LIVE Indie Games developers that provides …