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Overview The announcement on October 11 from Microsoft about its Windows Phone launch came as no surprise to the mobile community. Ever since Apple launched the IPhone in 2007, the mobile arena has seen a Botox like face-lift. In the hardware front, keyboard-less phones have started to push out the QWERTY keyboard phones as uncool […]

And is now living in the past. Microsoft has a lot riding on their new technologies such as Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Bing, Kinect and other consumer based technologies grabbing a strong hold. As Apple prepares to dwarf over-all company sales in 2010, Microsoft is at a cross-roads in deciding if they will go by […]

Microsoft making strides in trying to compete in the rich internet-orientated space the new Expression Studio releases. Expression Studio 4 Web Professional is Microsoft’s latest page-authoring application. The new Expression Web 4 includes such features as advanced standards-compliant handling of HTML/XHTML, CSS, PHP and ASP.NET Ajax. The new Expression Web is in a league all […]

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is expected to be a big success and no doubt create a serious problem for both the Android and IOS. Europeans today are now enjoying the numerous innovations built in to the new smartphone OS on such devices as Mozart HTC, HTC Trophy, HD7 HTC, LG Optimus 7, Samsung Omnia 7.I

Today’s websites commonly exchange information between the browser and the web server using Ajax techniques. In a nutshell, the browser executes JavaScript code typically in response to the page loading or some user action. This JavaScript makes an asynchronous HTTP request to the server. The server processes this request and, perhaps, returns data that the […]

No you can take your iPhone music, videos, photos and podcasts from your iTunes and iPhoto with you on your Windows Phone 7 device using the newly released Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Connector Beta for Mac

Obviously Google Android has been around just a little longer than Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and we don’t have a tally on how many Pocket PC and Windows Mobile apps are out there but odds are, its already an impressive number. But the difference between those apps and the hundreds of thousands of Apple and […]

Even though Microsoft has their very own ad-network for their app developers to integrate with, but it does seem a little odd that Google has not yet announced any sort of ad-network for Microsoft Windows Phone 7. Of course you can modify AdMob ads to work on your Windows Phone 7 app but will there […]

Introduction Windows Workflow Foundation provides a simplified programming model, an in-process workflow engine and improved designer that can be used to design and implement workflows in .NET applications. This article discusses the new features in Windows Workflow Foundation 4 and shows how you can get started with it using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 IDE. Pre-requisites […]

Microsoft announced on October 22 that they will be partnering with Cloud.com to provide “integration and support” for Windows Server 2008 R2’s Hyper-V hypervisor with OpenStack. As one of the OpenStack contributors and participants, Cloud.com has an arrangement similar to other interoperability-focused partnerships Microsoft to Java, PHP and Eclipse support for Microsoft’s own Windows Azure […]

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 comes with some very strict design rules. If you want your phone to run on the new smartphone OS, then it must include a considerable camera on-board. A minimum of 5 megapixels and it must include video capture. And in typical Microsoft fashion, even if you do comply, you still can […]

Three weeks into the release of Microsoft Windows Live Essentials 2011 and with over 16 million downloads of the latest version, users are very excited about what Windows Live Essentials 2011 brings to Windows 7. The list is extensive, and its all for Free!