It’s easy to forget sometimes (especially living 40 miles from Redmond, like I do) that the whole world doesn’t work, or live, quite the way you think it would from reading Techmeme headlines.  In a number of markets Windows Live …

Windows Mobile 6.5 demo:

• Simple lock screen with clock, appointments, and notifications
• Same IE engine for PC and phone
• Full Flash support
• All Windows phones will have Windows Start button
• Start screen icons are configurable
• New home screen

My Phone…

Innovation is important in this global economic downturn

Smartphones will soon comprise 50% of worldwide mobile phones

Windows is the single platform for PC and mobile

Today we’re calling them simply “Windows Phones”

Today we’re announcing 3 things:

• Windows Mobile

One more for today, to round out our Windows Mobile/Windows Live coverage, this one thanks to a tweet from Loke Uei via Eileen Brown

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😉…

(all emphasis mine)

Just came across this job posting on HireDiversity.com for a Director of Brand Marketing for the Premium Mobile Experiences team (and no, we’re not looking for work – looking to avoid it, more like).  This “rare and …

Well that didn’t take long!  At just about 6pm pst this evening I got an email from Microsoft:

WooHoo!  Off to the download page, which sends a text message to the phone, and from there its a 557kb download.  At …

7 year old Alexa is quite a photographer.  In just a few moments she snaps some photos of her “fort”, creates a panoramic photo in Windows Live Photo Gallery, and somehow manages to get them all lined up vertically!  Either …

Monday February 16th at 3pm Central European Time (GMT +1), Steve Ballmer will conduct a press conference broadcast live via webcast from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and you can watch it here:

(Here’s the current Central European …

Official news of Microsoft My Phone won’t come until Steve Ballmer’s keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but you can pre-register to get in on the beta of the new service now.  The service, code named “Skybox”, …

Outlook Live is the new name for an updated set of services under the Live@Edu banner, offering free email services for students and now faculty and staff for educational institutions that sign up.  Aside from the name change, a number …