Windows Phone 8 details leak through video: Pocketnow.com

Windows-Phone-8Pocketnow.com has revealed a number of new details about Windows Phone 8, code named Apollo, after apparently getting their hands on a video featuring Microsoft Senior Vice President Joe Belfiore, and intended for partners at Nokia.

While Pocketnow doesn’t post the video (which would be sure to be taken down quickly if they tried) they do reveal quite a list of features … Read more »

Email campaign politics: Microsoft goes negative

Email campaign politics: Microsoft goes negative

Here in the United States, we’re in the early stages of a presidential campaign season, and, as usual, the ads are going negative.  Newt Gingrich just lost a big primary election in Florida, largely, ... Read more »
How “Metro” will Office 15 for Windows 8 be?

How “Metro” will Office 15 for Windows 8 be?

As Microsoft announced a few days ago that Office 15 has entered technical preview stage, interests (and rumors) are starting to pick up about the next version of the Office productivity suite, particularly around ... Read more »
Skype for Windows Phone app to begin beta testing soon, release imminent

Skype for Windows Phone app to begin beta testing soon, release imminent

Microsoft first revealed the Skype for Windows Phone app back in MIX 2011 last year, way before Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype. It had almost been a year without further news about the app, and ... Read more »
Bing out of beta in Germany, but what about those numbers?

Bing out of beta in Germany, but what about those numbers?

Finally, after two years as a beta product, Bing has officially launched in Germany, according to a press release ( Bing German to English translation) issued by Microsoft Germany last Friday, January 27th. The ... Read more »
Microsoft to replace Hotmail ads–with Deals

Microsoft to replace Hotmail ads–with Deals

In a post today on Marketing Land, Greg Sterling is reporting that Microsoft is replacing conventional display ads in Hotmail with ads for Deals, including Bing Deals and MSN Offers.  The switch, which is ... Read more »
Microsoft updates Bing Get Me There app

Microsoft updates Bing Get Me There app

Today Microsoft is announcing that it has updated its Bing Get Me There app for Windows Phone for use within London. The app now pulls in transportation data from District Light Railway (DLR), London ... Read more »
Office 15 Technical Preview announced

Office 15 Technical Preview announced

In a blog post today, Microsoft Corporate VP PJ Hough announced the beginning of a Technical Preview program for Office 15, with what he called “the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division”: ... Read more »
Windows Phone “Tango” will support 120 languages, C++ development support coming soon

Windows Phone “Tango” will support 120 languages, C++ development support coming soon

According to WPSauce (via WMPU), Microsoft revealed some interesting information during a Windows Phone developers camp in India today. According to Karthik Ragubathy, who had been attending this event, the on-stage speaker had confirmed ... Read more »
Leveraging the power of Microsoft… for Pizza!

Leveraging the power of Microsoft… for Pizza!

We received a tip yesterday about a very fun website, Centives.net,  run by a group of economics students at Lehigh University, who blog about interesting tidbits from around the web in their Daily Bulletins, ... Read more »