2010

ChevronWP7 pulled

If you didn’t download ChevronWP7 unlocking tool, you are too late now! Today the team discontinued their tool after a discussion with Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7:

Through this discussion, we established a mutual

New on (US only) Bing.com: Music/overview

Bing continues to blur those 10 blue lines, creating subsites within Bing that are more destinations than portals.  The latest is an Overview page for music artists, containing on a single page a description of the artist, a list of …

Half a million former Spaces bloggers now on WordPress (plus half a million more)

Microsoft unleashed quite a bombshell last September when it announced that it would be shutting down its blogging platform, Windows Live Spaces, and making a migration to open source WordPress.com available to anyone wanting to continue their blogs.  Since then, …

Windows Phone sales early returns: eh, not so much

While Microsoft has been quick to tout its early sales of the Kinect gaming controller for Xbox (update: right on schedule, Microsoft announced today that 2.5 million Kinects have been sold),  we haven’t heard a peep really about Windows …

VB support for Windows Phone developer tools RTW

In September we saw the CTP version of Visual Basic for Windows phone Developer Tools, today the team announces the RTW version:

Back in September, we released the CTP of Visual Basic for the Windows Phone Developer Tools. Today

Windows 8 and Windows Live Wave 5 to offer cloud-based identity and roaming settings?

Windows 7 just had its first birthday, and Windows Live Wave 4 was fully released not long ago, but the Windows and Windows Live division at Microsoft had already started its planning stages for the upcoming Windows 8 and Windows …

FUSE Labs brings new projects – Spindex, Project Emporia, SocialGadgets, and Montage

FUSE Labs is best known for their Docs.com project bringing Office Web Apps to Facebook users, and for those readers who had been following, they also started up Kodu, a very simple-to-use game programming language, as well as Bing

A first look at Office 365

More than a month ago, Microsoft announced the new Office 365 – the cloud-based version of its Office, Exchange, SharePoint and Lync solutions, which is intended to replace the current BPOS, Office Live Small Business, and Live@EDU offerings. While most …

Windows Phone 7 unlocker

Long Zheng, Rafael Rivera and Chris Walsh released ChevronWP7, a Windows Phone 7 unlocker.

This tool will allow you to deploy (sideload) any third-party Windows Phone 7 applications without requiring a Marketplace developer account. The unlocking process does

The Vail debacle: Why Microsoft still doesn’t get the consumer

Yesterday’s announcement on the Windows Home Server blog about the decision to pull Drive Extender functionality from Vail/Aurora/Breckenridge is just yet another example of how Microsoft, while perhaps doing the right thing in the short term for their business, continues …