The one where we gather up all the Mango news in one post

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While there were few surprises in today’s Mango announcement if you’ve been following the news, it was fun to see everything presented at once, officially.  It’s a pretty impressive showing, and if Microsoft can keep its promises, all current Windows …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
May 24th, 2011 at 9:17 am

Windows Phone Mango live webcast

OK while we sort out our Romanian translations (Google pegs the release as this “summer”, and Bing as “autumn”, for example), we’re getting set to watch the webcast, and you can too:

Here’s the url for the Microsoft News Center

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
May 24th, 2011 at 6:58 am

Official Microsoft PR release leaked ahead of Windows Phone “Mango” VIP Event

It’s less than an hour away from the Windows Phone "Mango" VIP Event, and Microsoft had spilled the beans on the via the Microsoft Romania Press Center (translated version). Update: The proper English version of the press release …

By damaster in Mobile
May 24th, 2011 at 6:23 am

Tune in on the Windows Phone Press conference

You can follow the Windows Phone press conference, to be held in New York today, live in the Windows Phone News Room.
Windows Phone Press Conference

Time in your Country.

Will the rumors become truth?

By Sunshine in Mobile
May 23rd, 2011 at 6:57 pm

Steven Sinofsky to appear at All Things D’s D9 conference

sinofskyIn a somewhat rare appearance outside of Microsoft environs, Steven Sinofsky has just been announced to appear at next week’s D9 conference, put on by the Wall Street Journal’s All Things D blog.

Sinofsky, President of Windows and Windows …

By Kip Kniskern in News
May 23rd, 2011 at 5:36 am

Wild Rumor Department: Zune to become Xbox Live, more, announcement coming May 24th?

We’ve been hearing lots of rumblings about the future of Zune services, and a couple of tweets from @MSNerd has brought some new, although totally unsubstantiated (read: wild rumor) bits of “information”.  MSNerd tweeted a “wee little rumor” that Zune …

By Kip Kniskern in News
May 22nd, 2011 at 5:40 am

New Bing-Facebook ads debut on Bing’s Facebook page

Today saw the “premiere” two new Bing ads, posted on Bing’s Facebook page.  The ads, of course, celebrate Bing’s new relationship with Facebook “Likes”, which itself debuted earlier this week.  The first one has a group of Facebook …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
May 20th, 2011 at 9:13 pm

No more Silverlight for Bing Webmaster Tools?

webmaster-toolsBarry Schwartz at Search Engine RoundTable has noticed something interesting, although there doesn’t seem to be any official news about it (although Webmaster Tools PM Duane Forrester retweeted the news): Bing Webmaster Tools, which up until recently required …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
May 19th, 2011 at 11:01 am

Angry Birds, a “Must Have Game”, but not until June 29

angry-birdsAt Mix, Joe Belfiore announced that the popular birds vs. pigs game Angry Birds would be coming to Windows Phone on May 25th (a week from today).    However in what can’t be much of a surprise, Angry Birds, like seemingly …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
May 18th, 2011 at 10:52 am

Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” to get Linked Inbox – a better version of unified inbox

More details are leaking about Microsoft’s next major update to its Windows Phone platform codenamed "Mango". Earlier today, a Twitter user @WindowsPhone8 tweeted the following:

[blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/WindowsPhone8/status/70675300970795008″]

And soon after, Neowin posted a screenshot which shows off the new "Linked …

By damaster in Mobile
May 18th, 2011 at 6:49 am