We’ve seen Microsoft’s next generation operating system Windows 8 a few months ago, featuring a brand new “immersive” interface that makes it really intuitive to use on touch-based devices such as tablets. As mentioned during D9, they designed Windows 8 …
Here we go again, Bing changes spotted in the wild
Looks like the on again off again Bing HTML5 rumors may be on again, along with some other quite interesting changes some are reporting seeing to the Bing home page.
First, the home page changes. Rafael Rivera posted today on …
Devs getting lots of love today: Azure, Mango, Windows Live announcements
A trio of announcements for developers (and developer wannabes) today coming from various parts of Microsoft, all intending to make it easier to write and deploy your apps. We’ll start with Windows Live, because, well, we’re LiveSide!
Microsoft talks more about Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango”
We reported a few weeks ago that Microsoft had been testing Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango” and Windows Live internally. Today, the Windows Phone team posted several new videos on their YouTube account, with various program managers talking …
ITC ruling against HTC’s Android may push OEMs to adopt Windows Phone; Huawei now interested
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recently ruled against HTC that it had infringed two patents belonging to Apple Inc., according to reports from AllThingsD.com. At least one of the patent, 5,946,647, appears to be related to Google’s …
Nokia WP7 Sea Ray video emerges
The guys at WPCentral have spotted a Youku (a Chinese version of YouTube) video showing Nokia’s first Windows Phone device, code named Sea Ray. The video shows a little unboxing ceremony, (note the actual hardware buttons for home, search, and …
Games for Windows Marketplace now on Xbox.com; wild rumors on Xbox and Windows 8 integration, and more
Two weeks ago we reported that Games for Windows Marketplace is slated to be migrated to Xbox.com, potentially being the first step for the convergence of Xbox LIVE across the Xbox 360, Windows Phone, and the Windows PC. Today, …
Twitter and Microsoft: What’s the deal?
A post at All Things D yesterday revealed that, after Twitter and Google parted ways (at least temporarily) recently, things maybe aren’t going so well in negotiations to renew the relationship between Twitter and Bing.
Bing, like Google, signed a …
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