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Category Archives: Microsoft

Orange-UK Outs a Superphone Contender… Running Windows.
So, if you read the two posts I wrote out yesterday, you will have heard me ranting about how O2 was getting slightly greedy. Having both the iPhone and the Pre on it’s books, and how my money was on the Pre going to Orange. Well, today I found a... Read More...
Windows 7: Coming This Fall
Ever since taking the stage at this years CES, Windows 7 has been all over the media. From the time Ballmer announced a public beta of the new software, tons of people have flocked to download the new OS, reporting back that it’s stable, secure, and ready for release.... Read More...
Microsoft’s Project Natal for Xbox 360
When releasing the “next-gen consoles” back around 2005, companies like Microsoft and Sony planned out a ten-year life span for their new systems. Lets face it, Xbox 360 is approaching its mid-life crisis. Sure its powerful, has tons of great games, and an amazing online user base, but the experience... Read More...
The Zune lives on! Well, at least on other devices
Zune lovers, please, don’t fret just yet. In a recent interview with our good friend Steve Ballmer, the WSJ quoted Ballmer as saying they are “going to keep going with Zune” but “I won’t say full steam ahead, because that implies acceleration of investment, but we’re going to sustain our... Read More...
Windows 7 to get multi-touch in Explorer, among other fixes
Yeah that’s right; among the slew of changes announced in the Engineering Windows 7 blog, users are getting multi-touch in Windows Explorer (Note: this is not Internet Explorer). Along with multi-touch, beta users will find new changes in thumbnail view in the taskbar, a new control panel jump list, trimming... Read More...
Windows marketplace talks revenue, ‘transparency’, among other things
CNET’s Ina Fried gave us a heads up on what to expect from the pending Windows Marketplace, due to release with WinMo 6.5 around Q4 of this year. Details included such charges as $99 a year for app developers, and $99 for each app they release on the store. In... Read More...
No iPods or iPhones for the Gates’ kiddies
In a recent interview with Melinda Gates, the wife of the former Microsoft CEO, she mentioned that there are no iPods or iPhones allowed in the Gates’ household; ever. While the kids can run around and smash people on Xbox, iPods are forbidden. She comments “There are very few... Read More...
iPhone responsible for over 66% of all mobile web use; leaves competition in the dust
It’s no question that the Apple iPhone is an extremely popular handset; with millions sold within the first couple years of release, there was some notion that web browsing on the device would be high. However, I don’t think we were prepared to see how high compared with other competitors,... Read More...
Wait. Windows 7 shipping this fall? Really?
The amount of leaked and/or mis-information regarding Windows releases, as well as OSX ones, is appalling. Then again, I guess I’m only contributing to this problem. Compal president Ray Chen (the same company that builds Acer and HP systems) made the announcement that “the software should be available in either... Read More...
Stolen WinMobile 6.5 phone remotely wiped, sorry guys, no sketchy video in the future
While the news of a stolen HTC handset running WinMo 6.5 had our hopes up for a sketched out video, it seems that Microsoft let us down. Apparently, once the phone was jacked, Microsoft remotely wiped all the system info and user data on the device, making it utterly useless.... Read More...

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