Windows Phone sales early returns: eh, not so much

While Microsoft has been quick to tout its early sales of the Kinect gaming controller for Xbox (update: right on schedule, Microsoft announced today that 2.5 million Kinects have been sold),  we haven’t heard a peep really about Windows …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
November 29th, 2010 at 11:36 am

VB support for Windows Phone developer tools RTW

In September we saw the CTP version of Visual Basic for Windows phone Developer Tools, today the team announces the RTW version:

Back in September, we released the CTP of Visual Basic for the Windows Phone Developer Tools. Today

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By Sunshine in Developer Mobile
November 29th, 2010 at 7:17 am

Windows 8 and Windows Live Wave 5 to offer cloud-based identity and roaming settings?

Windows 7 just had its first birthday, and Windows Live Wave 4 was fully released not long ago, but the Windows and Windows Live division at Microsoft had already started its planning stages for the upcoming Windows 8 and Windows …

By damaster in Featured News
November 27th, 2010 at 10:25 pm

FUSE Labs brings new projects – Spindex, Project Emporia, SocialGadgets, and Montage

FUSE Labs is best known for their Docs.com project bringing Office Web Apps to Facebook users, and for those readers who had been following, they also started up Kodu, a very simple-to-use game programming language, as well as Bing …

By damaster in Featured News
November 27th, 2010 at 9:14 pm

A first look at Office 365

More than a month ago, Microsoft announced the new Office 365 – the cloud-based version of its Office, Exchange, SharePoint and Lync solutions, which is intended to replace the current BPOS, Office Live Small Business, and Live@EDU offerings. While most …

By damaster in News
November 26th, 2010 at 11:14 pm

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

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By Sunshine in Mobile
November 25th, 2010 at 11:54 am

The Vail debacle: Why Microsoft still doesn’t get the consumer

Yesterday’s announcement on the Windows Home Server blog about the decision to pull Drive Extender functionality from Vail/Aurora/Breckenridge is just yet another example of how Microsoft, while perhaps doing the right thing in the short term for their business, continues …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
November 24th, 2010 at 10:45 am

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 …

By Sunshine in Bing
November 24th, 2010 at 3:02 am

Windows Home Server kills “Drive Extender” for Vail: users not happy

windows-home-serverWindows Home Server has been a much appreciated but perhaps under-used product, and its fans have been anxiously awaiting Version 2 of the product, code-named “Vail”.  Well, maybe now not so much.  A blog post this morning on the Windows …

By Kip Kniskern in News
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:33 am

Bing Movies updated: more to come?

A blog post on the Bing Search blog this morning points out some new features in Bing Movies (although not, apparently, a way to embed MSN Video files into WordPress), offering up a pretty seamless experience from searching for a …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
November 23rd, 2010 at 10:28 am
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