According to a report from The Street, first day sales of Windows Phone 7s reached “a mere” 40,000 units. Multiple reports were quick to point out that this is a far cry from Google’s claims of selling 200,000 units …
It’s official: full session SSL for Hotmail, more
We’ve been telling you about full session SSL coming for Hotmail, and today an announcement on the Inside Windows Live blog makes it official: full session SSL is available for Hotmail, although it won’t work if you use a …
Windows Live/Bing Photo Contest winner!
The winner of the Windows Live/Bing Photo Contest is……
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 …
WP7 1st day report: enough phones to go around?
Nobody chalked the sidewalks for the US Windows Phone 7 launch (or at least they didn’t get in trouble for it), and indeed my experience was similar to Leo Laporte’s when I visited my local AT&T store in Southcenter Mall…
Tech•Ed Europe Keynote Live today
Tech•Ed Europe kicks off today, and you can watch the keynote live here.
Windows Phones available in US on AT&T website now
It’s still Sunday night here on the West Coast, early Monday morning in the east but still far too early for AT&T stores to open for the first day of Windows Phone sales in the US, but the AT&T website …
T Drive: MSR to Follow That Cab for better driving routes
At this week’s 18th annual ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, one of the submissions from Microsoft Research may provide better driving directions for Bing Maps, by following taxis to learn the best routes around …
Full-session SSL for Hotmail is here!
Last week we told you about certain limitations with the full-session SSL feature for Hotmail, and told you that it will be coming very soon. Well, today, thanks to a tip from John S., we were told that the new …
Microsoft Live Labs projects lives on – Seadragon Ajax and Silverlight PivotViewer
While we know that Microsoft Live Labs was shuttered almost a month ago – and the team was “transitioned” into Bing, it appears that not all the incubation projects went under Bing’s control (and it would make sense not to). …
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