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The implications of Microsoft’s partnership with Kayak
Microsoft recently struck a deal whereby travel results on Bing will be powered by KAYAK, a niche travel-centric search engine that helps users find attractive deals for flights, hotels, cruises, and rental cars by scouring the net and finding the best possible deals from an assortment of sites. It’s a useful travel booking search aggregate, […]
Continue reading...Microsoft Kinect confirmed as fastest selling consumer electronic device in history
Thursday, March 10, 2011
To date, Apple has sold over 14.8 million iPads, a staggering figure that makes Apple’s tablet device one of the fastest selling consumer electronic devices of all time. By way of comparison, the iPhone moved 6.1 million units in the first 12 months after its initial release while the Sony PSP moved 14.5 million units.
Continue reading...Microsoft still struggling to come up with a tablet to compete with the iPad
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Yahoo reports that Microsoft is working hard on its efforts to port Windows to ARM chips so that it can deliver a tablet OS with decent battery life and a new UI, hopefully by June. But with developers still not in the mix with respect to app development, the report notes Microsoft most likely won’t […]
Continue reading...Microsoft offers employees 70%-cut to code apps for Windows Phone 7
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
It’s no secret that Microsoft is desperately trying to become a third player in what has clearly become a two-man race between Apple and Google. With the release of Windows Phone 7 and a huge advertising campaign, coupled of course with Redmond’s recent deal with Nokia, Microsoft is pulling out all the stops. But it […]
Continue reading...What it’s like working at Microsoft
Monday, February 28, 2011
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Windows development manager Richard G Russel has an extremely interesting post up detailing what its like being a coder at Microsoft on a day to day basis. I quite often see assumptions on the inter-tubes that writing software at Microsoft is a mind-numbingly boring, tedious, manual, excruciating, soul-crushing bureaucratic exercise. This couldn’t be further from […]
Continue reading...What Google’s VIc Gundotra thinks about the Nokia/Microsoft partnership
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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Here’s what Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra thinks about Nokia’s decision to hitch its wagon to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS. Two turkeys do not make an Eagle. Nice.
Continue reading...Nokia, Microsoft’s “puppet government”
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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With former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop in place as Nokia CEO and former Microsoft veteran Chris Weber recently christened as the President of Nokia US, Matt Drance hits the nail on the head. I have absolutely no qualms about calling this new regime at Nokia a puppet government. This is far and away the most […]
Continue reading...Nokia uses iMovie audio loop to announce Microsoft partnership
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
You know what they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Hell, Apple fans have been saying that about Windows since back in the day. In the most recent incarnation of “flattery”, the audio loop in the video where Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced their strategic partnership is the […]
Continue reading...Concept photos of a Nokia Windows Phone 7 device
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Nokia’s decision to abandon Symbian and strike up a partnership with Microsoft was a huge move that brings with it the potential to shakeup the entire smartphone industry. Of course, there’s also the possibility that the Nokia/Microsoft partnership will create more of a wimper than a bang, but hey, that’s the inherent joy in watching […]
Continue reading...Backed into a corner, Nokia chooses Windows Phone 7
Friday, February 11, 2011
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Hot on the heels of Nokia CEO Stephen Elop’s lengthy letter detailing Nokia’s failed attempts to keep up with the staggering pace of smartphone innovation comes a huge coup for Microsoft. Abandoning Symbian and relegating MeeGoo to lord knows what, Nokia has thrown it’s full weight behind Microsoft’s next-gen mobile OS, Windows Phone 7. The […]
Continue reading...Microsoft shipped 2 million Windows Phone devices last quarter
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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Less than a month ago, Microsoft VP Achim Berg disclosed that Microsoft had shipped 1.5 million Windows Phone devices to carriers. As for how many people actually purchased a Windows Phone device, well, Berg wasn’t as forthcoming. Early last week, Microsoft released their earnings from the quarter gone by and announced that Windows Phone shipments […]
Continue reading...Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky takes shot at Apple
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
With CES now dead and gone like Justin Timberlake, NetworkWorld recounts a quip from Microsoft President Steven Sinofsky in which the Microsoft Prez criticized Apple. Sinofsky recalled sitting on a plane next to a passenger who used a succession of Apple devices during and after the flight. First the passenger texted and talked on his […]
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Friday, March 11, 2011
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