November, 2011

“Lost” your SkyDrive OneNote files on your Windows Phone? Here’s the workaround

Shortly after yesterday’s post on the new updates to SkyDrive on Inside Windows Live, reports started coming in about “lost” OneNote files when trying to access them from the Office Hub on Windows Phones.  According to a new blog post …

Lenovo confirms plans for Windows Phones in second half of 2012

LenovoBack in October, President of Microsoft’s Windows Phone division Andy Lees mentioned that new OEMs will be coming on-board with Windows Phone in 2012. Shortly after we saw leaks of a Lenovo-branded smartphone running the Windows Phone OS, suggesting that …

Nokia Lumia 900 to hit US stores in early 2012 with Windows Phone “Tango”?

Nokia Windows Phone PrototypeEver since Nokia first revealed its first two Windows Phone devices – Nokia Lumia 710 and 800 – there had been various rumors about upcoming Nokia Windows Phones. In fact, a few weeks ago images of an alleged Nokia Lumia

Office 365 upgraded with new features and new markets

Office 365Office 365 received a major update today since its release back in June this year. According to the official Office 365 blog, over 40% of the top 100 brands are now using Office 365 or related cloud productivity …

Twitter comes back to Windows Live Profile, but feed access still limited to Windows Phone only

A few more updates came as part of today’s Windows Live update (version 16.2). One of this includes Windows Live Profile, which received some clean-up to its Connected Services page. Services that you connected through Live Connect no longer shows …

Windows Live Service Status page gets an update, now tracking Live ID and Family Safety

As part of the latest SkyDrive update today, as we predicted earlier, the rest of Windows Live web services received an update too, up to Wave 5 M2 (version 16.2). As part of this update, Windows Live Service …

Questions and Requests: SkyDrive reminder

Last week I announced Liveside’s new campaign to pass on your questions and requests directly to Microsoft and we kicked it off by asking for your questions and requests for SkyDrive. I plan to collect up all the responses to …

SkyDrive gets an update: better sharing, file management

A new post on the Inside Windows Live blog today brings us news of some new features for SkyDrive, including file upload and file management changes, expanded “right-click” functionality, HTML5 support for file uploads (meaning drag and drop file uploading …

Watch the Nokia Lumia consumer launch from London, Live: featuring deadmau5 and the Millbank Tower

In just a few hours, Nokia is taking over the Millbank Tower in London for an over-the-top UK product launch for Nokia Lumia Windows Phones.  The production, set to begin at 9pm GMT tonight (November 28th, [countdown date=2011/11/28-21:00:00 offset=0]in [timer][/countdown]), …

Yandex replaces Bing as the default search engine for Windows Phones in Russia

YandexAccording to a press release from Russia’s most popular search engine Yandex, their search product will be replacing Bing as the default search engine on Windows Phones sold in Russia. Below is an excerpt from the press release:

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