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Monday’s Bloomberg article claimed the demise of the media player stating unnamed sources however Microsoft today denounced the statement, instead insisting that information on the Microsoft Zune product line has not been released and according to a blog post by a Microsoft program manager, Dave McLauchlan who said “We were completely frank about this year’s […]

The offer will go to Microsoft Exchange Online hosted e-mail customers, most of whom already have and currently pay for this very service. Whats new is that the hosted BES product will now have free pricing to Microsoft’s Exchange 2010 Online customers. The BES product allows Blackberry users to relieve on the go access to […]

Internet Explorer 9 was just released this past Monday pulling in just over 2.35 million downloads in the first 24 hours alone and Microsoft’s senior director of Internet Explorer, Ryan Gavin would like to thank you all. And while the download rate was consistent and respectable, it in no way compares to other browsers release […]

Expanding their support for HTML5, AdMob released a new Software Development Kit for Windows Phone 7 developers. AdMob will also be updating their platform to HTML5 for both the Android and Windows Phone 7 OSs. Developers will now be able to embed AdMob’s advertising units in their Windows Phone 7 apps.

As we start to talk to a slightly wider audience, [we’re saying], ‘You can be fast, but you can also be beautiful,” says Chief strategy officer for Microsoft’s, Ben Carlson says their Internet Explorer can make the Internet both Beautiful and Fast by creating an immerseive web-experience by using IE9. Microsoft plans to assault the […]

Industry sources have reported that Microsoft has recently made the decision to discontinue Zune in place for other other Zune-type products in support of their Xbox Live and Windows Phone 7 platforms.

With a reported app list of 10,191, the Microsoft Marketplace also reaches a growth rate of nearly 500 new apps each week. With Apple and Google’s efforts to draw app developers into the smartphone community, Microsoft rides the wave of ambitious new developers, requiring much less effort to enticed developers to do what they do […]

Introduction The application tenure on mobile platforms is not very long. Frequently, users have to stop doing what they are currently doing on their mobile device and take that all important call. As a Windows Phone platform developer, if you do not account for such scenarios, your product will not appeal to the users if […]

Microsoft has promised that the Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1 will deliver more power, familiarity, and reliability to the Windows 7 operating system and allow developers to create new and advanced commercial and consumer devices running thousands of existing Windows applications and drivers.

Microsoft earlier this week advised the French PR site had just acknowledged that Microsoft will delay their first update to the Windows Phone 7 operating system. Microsoft General Manager of Customer Experience Engineering, Eric Hautala confirmed this last week and also validated what the French PR site had stated back on March 9th and that […]

Introduction In discussions about the C++ programming language, particularly about the differences between struct and class keywords, sometimes I have read or heard the following statements: A struct is a value type, while a class is a reference type. A struct contains only primitive data members and is designed for small objects. A struct cannot […]

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