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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
March 24th, 2011 at 11:46 am

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
March 24th, 2011 at 10:03 am

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 (…

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:53 pm

Bing for Mobile browsing gets better for iPhone and Android: Windows Phone support coming “later this year”

Bing has updated its m.bing.com mobile browsing experience again, iterating for every platform but Microsoft’s apparently, as browsers with HTML5 support (Windows Phone 7 not among them) get fresh and new content while the built in Bing experience in Windows …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
March 23rd, 2011 at 10:09 am

Bing adds Shopping Mall maps

Last week our friend PicturePan2 was here from Shanghai, and I spent more time in shopping malls (looking for the elusive iPad2, long story) than I had in years.  We could have really used Bing’s Shopping Mall maps!  For those …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
March 23rd, 2011 at 9:52 am

NoDo updates begin (again)

simpsons_donuts-lMicrosoft started out touting its “NoDo” updates on a page with the overly optimistic name of http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/features/january-update.aspx, which was quickly changed back when we noted the name on January 5th to “whats-next.aspx”, and ever since then it’s …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:48 pm

Is this NoDo week?

sprint-arriveWe won’t go through all the long and exhausting history of the Windows Phone NoDo update, except to say that we don’t know if Microsoft could have taken the excitement out of a system upgrade any more thoroughly if …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
March 21st, 2011 at 8:56 pm

Programming note: the one where we pull the post

vector_black-zipperSorry that circumstances beyond our control (read: busy at real jobs) kept us from posting on this earlier, but we’ve had some recent comments regarding a post that appeared on LiveSide last weekend and then was removed, and we wanted …

By Kip Kniskern in News
March 21st, 2011 at 7:11 pm

Bing adds “Attractions”

Microsoft’s Bing continues to add features to its Travel vertical, this time announcing “Attractions” in a blog post on the Bing Search blog.  Attractions bring together a number of bits of information for some 52,000 attractions around the world, offering …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing Featured
March 17th, 2011 at 10:56 am

As Microsoft releases IE9, IE6 still dominates in China: here’s why

IE9 was just released this week (you can get it here), and for many there will be a rush to upgrade.  In China, however, it’s a different story.

In preparation for the launch of IE9, a few weeks …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
March 16th, 2011 at 10:58 am
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