May, 2011

The one where we gather up all the Mango news in one post

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While there were few surprises in today’s Mango announcement if you’ve been following the news, it was fun to see everything presented at once, officially.  It’s a pretty impressive showing, and if Microsoft can keep its promises, all current Windows …

Windows Phone Mango live webcast

OK while we sort out our Romanian translations (Google pegs the release as this “summer”, and Bing as “autumn”, for example), we’re getting set to watch the webcast, and you can too:

Here’s the url for the Microsoft News Center

Official Microsoft PR release leaked ahead of Windows Phone “Mango” VIP Event

It’s less than an hour away from the Windows Phone "Mango" VIP Event, and Microsoft had spilled the beans on the via the Microsoft Romania Press Center (translated version). Update: The proper English version of the press release …

Tune in on the Windows Phone Press conference

You can follow the Windows Phone press conference, to be held in New York today, live in the Windows Phone News Room.
Windows Phone Press Conference

Time in your Country.

Will the rumors become truth?

Steven Sinofsky to appear at All Things D’s D9 conference

sinofskyIn a somewhat rare appearance outside of Microsoft environs, Steven Sinofsky has just been announced to appear at next week’s D9 conference, put on by the Wall Street Journal’s All Things D blog.

Sinofsky, President of Windows and Windows …

Wild Rumor Department: Zune to become Xbox Live, more, announcement coming May 24th?

We’ve been hearing lots of rumblings about the future of Zune services, and a couple of tweets from @MSNerd has brought some new, although totally unsubstantiated (read: wild rumor) bits of “information”.  MSNerd tweeted a “wee little rumor” that Zune …

New Bing-Facebook ads debut on Bing’s Facebook page

Today saw the “premiere” two new Bing ads, posted on Bing’s Facebook page.  The ads, of course, celebrate Bing’s new relationship with Facebook “Likes”, which itself debuted earlier this week.  The first one has a group of Facebook …

No more Silverlight for Bing Webmaster Tools?

webmaster-toolsBarry Schwartz at Search Engine RoundTable has noticed something interesting, although there doesn’t seem to be any official news about it (although Webmaster Tools PM Duane Forrester retweeted the news): Bing Webmaster Tools, which up until recently required …

Angry Birds, a “Must Have Game”, but not until June 29

angry-birdsAt Mix, Joe Belfiore announced that the popular birds vs. pigs game Angry Birds would be coming to Windows Phone on May 25th (a week from today).    However in what can’t be much of a surprise, Angry Birds, like seemingly …

Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” to get Linked Inbox – a better version of unified inbox

More details are leaking about Microsoft’s next major update to its Windows Phone platform codenamed "Mango". Earlier today, a Twitter user @WindowsPhone8 tweeted the following:

[blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/WindowsPhone8/status/70675300970795008″]

And soon after, Neowin posted a screenshot which shows off the new "Linked …