2012

Watch Steve Ballmer’s last keynote live from CES

This time we’re not in Las Vegas, and not live blogging, but we’ll still be watching the CES keynote and you can too:

(the press conference is over, but you can watch the video on Microsoft News Center)

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Nokia announces 900 for AT&T, available “in the coming months”

At a press event at CES in Las Vegas today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop took the stage to announce the Nokia 900, the widely anticipated first “re-entry” for Nokia into the US smartphone market.  The new phone, available “in the …

Can we get real about phone updates?

cardsYesterday Eric Hautala posted on the Windows Phone blog about the latest Windows Phone update, dubbed 8107, which, according to the Windows Phone website, addresses the disappearing keyboard issue, a Gmail sync issue, the location permissions issue, and a …

SkyDrive now supports geotags with Bing Maps

SkyDriveWindows Live SkyDrive was only recently updated back in November last year to Version 16.2 (Build 2955) with better sharing and file management functionalities (see the official change log here). Today we noticed that the SkyDrive team had released …

Xbox Live mobile gaming: coming to Android and iOS soon?

android-xboxIn early December, Microsoft released an Xbox Live app for iOS, along with an Xbox Companion app for Windows Phone, and now, according to a recent job posting on Microsoft Careers, they’re planning on bringing more Xbox Live …

Good news for Nokia and Windows Phone in the new year: will they sell 80 million phones in 2012?

nokia-logoThe beginning of a new year is always a hopeful time, and two reports coming out this week are buoying the hopes (and the stock prices) of Nokia and Microsoft.  First up, a report from Reuters that a Nokia handset …

Windows Phone update coming: can Microsoft leverage the 0.6%?

freepizzaOn the heels of news that Microsoft, Nokia, and the other hardware partners are ready to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising, promotion, and payola, Windows Phone is getting ready to roll out another update, this …

Filling in our 2012 Microsoft calendar

screenshot_startScreen_webHope you had an enjoyable holiday season, as we did, and are ready to launch into what may be Microsoft’s most pivotal, and by far its riskiest year.  So much is at stake, and everything is hinging on the launch …