Windows Phone 7 is set to outgrow Android and IOS over the next few years

Inquirer - Dean Wilson - 9 Jun, 2011
WINDOWS PHONE 7 (WP7) is set to outgrow the rival mobile operating systems over the next few years, according to a report released by the International Data Corporation (IDC). Microsoft's late-comer smartphone OS is expected to grow its ...

Microsoft adds new Bing social features for iOS, Android and RIM devices

ZDNet (blog) - Mary Jo Foley - 9 Jun, 2011
Microsoft is adding new social-search features to Bing for users with Apple iOS, Android and RIM devices company officials said on June 8. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years for a ...

Apple bars WinXP users from iCloud

Register - 9 Jun, 2011
Apple will not give PC users access to iCloud â€" its great digital locker in the sky â€" if their machines are running Microsoft's aging but still popular Windows XP. Tucked at the bottom of the iCloud announcement, Apple says you'll need a PC running ...

Microsoft Planning its Own Tablet for 2012?

PC Magazine - Damon Poeter - 9 Jun, 2011
Microsoft could be coming out with its own branded tablet with the Windows 8 operating system in 2012, according to a DigiTimes report citing unnamed supply chain sources. The software giant would partner with Texas Instruments, ...

Free Windows Phone 7 Development Webinars by DevExpress.com

Newsday (subscription) - 9 Jun, 2011
By AP (Marketwire) -- 06/08/11 -- DevExpress.com is proud to announce a free seven part webinar series on Windows Phone 7 development. Presented by Chris Williams -- XNA MVP -- these webinars explore the Windows Phone 7 platform in detail and offer ...

Microsoft Had A Mobile Service Like iCloud Almost Two Years Ago, But Now It's ...

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 9 Jun, 2011
Like iCloud, it automatically backs up contacts, calendar entries, photos, and other items. Once backed up, users can get those items from any other Windows Mobile phone or from the My Phone Web site. The only problem: My Phone didn't use Windows Live ...

Microsoft to Sell Branded Tablet PCs, Report Says

Fox News - 9 Jun, 2011
June 1, 2011: At the AllThingsD conference in California, Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky showed off a revamped, tablet-friendly Start screen for Microsoft Windows 8 that borrows heavily from the company's designs for Windows Phone. ...

A Microsoft-branded Windows tablet PC? An unlikely rumor

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 9 Jun, 2011
The technoblogospherecircle is going nuts today about a report from DigiTimes that Microsoft is planning its own branded tablet PC for Windows. Citing sources from the supply chain, DigiTimes reports the strategy would be similar to Microsoft's current ...

Windows Phone Mango Gets New SkyDrive Features

infoSync World - Sindre Lia - 9 Jun, 2011
Windows Phone Mango will bring a range of new SkyDrive features to smartphone users, including photo and video sharing. The Windows Phone Mango upgrade to be released this fall will offer more than 500 new features. ...

Why Microsoft cannot make its own Windows tablet

ZDNet (blog) - James Kendrick - 9 Jun, 2011
Pundits responding to rumors that Microsoft will build its own tablet indicate the company shouldn't do so. I would even take it a bit further and put forth that it cannot make a tablet without dire ...

Microsoft-branded Windows 8 tablet reportedly under consideration

Los Angeles Times - 9 Jun, 2011
Microsoft is reportedly considering selling a Microsoft-branded tablet running Windows 8, in a move to challenge Apple's iPad and the growing field of tablets using Google's Android operating system. The move would be a bit out of step for Microsoft, ...

Smartphone OS Preview: iOS 5 vs. Android 2.3 Gingerbread vs. Windows Phone 7 ...

PC Magazine - William Fenton - 9 Jun, 2011
iOS 5 wowed the friendly WWDC crowds, but how will it fare in the real world when it releases this fall? We pit iOS 5 against its likely competitors, and the results may surprise you. By William Fenton Sure, Lion and iCloud are big news, but, ...

Microsoft May Build Its Own Windows 8 Tablet

PCWorld - Ian Paul - ‎Jun 8, 2011‎
Microsoft is reportedly considering plans to build its own Windows 8-based tablet in partnership with Texas Instruments and hardware manufacturers in Taiwan. The rumored Microsoft-branded tablet would be ...

A Really Bad Idea: Microsoft Making Its Own Windows Tablets (MSFT)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Jun 8, 2011‎
Citing unnamed "sources from the upstream supply chain," Taiwanese news source Digitimes says that Microsoft is considering building its own branded tablet computer using Taiwanese white-label manufacturers. It might have made sense for Microsoft to ...

Report: Microsoft-branded Windows 8 tablet in the works

The Seattle Times - Sharon Chan - ‎Jun 8, 2011‎
A report from Taiwanese tech site DigiTimes says that Microsoft is considering making its own branded tablet to compete with the iPad. A Wednesday DigiTimes story reported that Microsoft is working with Texas Instruments and Taiwanese electronics ...

Could and should there be a Microsoft-branded Windows 8 tablet?

ZDNet (blog) - Mary Jo Foley - ‎Jun 8, 2011‎
Could there be a Microsoft-branded Windows 8 tablet coming to market next year? Sure. But should there be? I'd argue no. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years for a variety of publications, ...

Bootup: Microsoft rumoured to be prepping own branded tablet

National Post (registration) - ‎Jun 8, 2011‎
This Chinese-made replica of an Apple iPad running Microsoft Windows is a knock-off. The tablet Microsoft is rumoured to be building based on Windows 8, is not. Today in technology: Microsoft Corp. reportedly prepares to enter the rapidly expanding ...

Rumor: Microsoft planning own-brand tablet

ZDNet (blog) - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - ‎Jun 8, 2011‎
According to the reports, Microsoft is in talks with Texas Instruments and Taiwan-based OEMs/ODMs to produce the own-brand tablets. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology ...

Microsoft Secretly Looking At Releasing Its Own Branded Tablet To Fight Apple ...

San Francisco Chronicle - Jay Yarow - ‎Jun 8, 2011‎
Microsoft is planning on releasing its own tablet by the end of 2012, according to DigiTimes. It is working with Texas Instruments and Taiwanese manufacturers to make the hardware. Microsoft has not had a great track record with its own hardware. ...

Win8: A beginner's guide to FondleWindows

Register - Andrew Orlowski - ‎Jun 8, 2011‎
Microsoft has unveiled the biggest design changes to Windows in the past 15 years, and probably the biggest redesign in its 26-year life. There are also implications for Windows developers â€" many of you ...

Windows Phone Mango to deliver new SkyDrive features

CNET (blog) - Bonnie Cha - ‎Jun 7, 2011‎
Perhaps in response to Apple's little iCloud announcement yesterday, Microsoft posted new details about a couple of features coming to its cloud-based SkyDrive storage service with the Windows Phone Mango update. This includes: The option ...

Microsoft Adds Eight Xbox Games to Windows Phone

PC Magazine - Sara Yin - ‎Jun 7, 2011‎
Don't worry mobile gamers, Microsoft didn't leave you out of the mix during its Monday keynote at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), taking place all week in Los Angeles, Cali. Microsoft has announced eight new Xbox Live games coming ...

Microsoft 'Flattered' By Apple iOS 5

PC Magazine - Sara Yin - ‎Jun 7, 2011‎
Well if you can't stop them with a patent lawsuit, drown them in sarcasm. Shortly after Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled iOS 5 at the Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) on Monday, a Microsoft exec tweeted that he was "flattered" that so ...

Windows 8 developers: Silverlight/.NET/XAML are MIA, MIA, MIA

Computerworld (blog) - Richi Jennings - ‎Jun 7, 2011‎
Microsoft (MSFT) continues to dodge the question of whether its third-party developers (developers, developers) will be able to use XAML, .NET, and Silverlight. Sure, they can write classic Windows apps, ...

Microsoft is flattered by IOS 5 features

Inquirer - Chris Martin - ‎Jun 7, 2011‎
SOFTWARE HOUSE Microsoft has said it is flattered by the features found on Apple's freshly announced IOS 5 that it claims have been inspired by Windows Phone 7 (WP7). Jobs announced various updates to the Apple's IOS for its mobile ...

Playing with a Windows phone

Sydney Morning Herald (blog) - ‎Jun 5, 2011‎
It was five years ago that Bill Gates made his first ever appearance at an Electronic Entertainment Expo to declare that Microsoft would bring its acclaimed Xbox Live online service to Windows and mobile phones. It took an awfully long time for ...

New Windows 8 Prompts Review of Microsoft's Top 5 Inglorious and Glorious Products

Christian Post - Simon Saavedra, Christian Post - 9 Jun, 2011
Microsoft recently unveiled its new operating system Windows 8 (not out in stores yet) with remarkable and bold changes tailored to cater the rapidly increasing tablet market dominated by Apple's iPad. ...

Microsoft rumoured to be launching own-brand tablet

Utalkmarketing - 9 Jun, 2011
Plans have leaked that Microsoft is to launch its own rival to Apple's iPad, in the form of a Windows 8 operated tablet device, next year. Currently, Windows 7 is available on a number of tablet devices, but to date Microsoft has failed to unveil its ...

Windows XP users, no Apple iCloud for you

Mobile Burn - Michael Oryl - 9 Jun, 2011
While it went largely unnoticed in the official press release, Apple states that its new iCloud service will require Microsoft PC users to be running Windows Vista or Windows 7. That means that untold millions of Windows XP users will not be able to ...

Microsoft Windows 8 Tablet in the Works?

DeviceMAG - Sanjeev Ramachandran - 9 Jun, 2011
It is a known fact that the dominance of Apple in the tablet market is so annoying for other players. Now, confirming the chances of more action as if to challenge this dominance, we hear that Microsoft has decided to take the fight to Apple's court by ...

 

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