Windows Phone 7 gives you the power to build complex, robust applications using consistent hardware specs, a comprehensive development toolkit, and the all-new, full-service Marketplace for selling your apps. To celebrate, we’re launching two day events all across the country. These events are packed with fast-paced learning that will help you stake your claim in this exciting new frontier. The
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The next video brings new meaning to the word deadly, although lethal is a more appropriate description of Tina. The auditions for this one were hilarious. We hope you enjoy it too!
There’s more to Windows Live Movie Maker than meets the eye. Let’s take AutoMovie for example. AutoMovie is a feature that allows the user to make a polished movie
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While Ryan and I were down in Long Beach competing with the Windows Project Phoenix Flugtag Team we took some time out of our week to hit the Microsoft Store in Mission Viejo, CA. The store is a pretty amazing place that’s packed with all of Microsoft’s latest technology – awesome PCs running
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In just over 100 days since Office Web Apps launched, more than 20 million people in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Ireland have used them – including Hotmail, Office 2010, and SkyDrive.
With more than 25,000 comments so far, we’re releasing more new features today, shaped directly by your
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Today I have big news about a little PC – Dell just announced that they are refreshing the Inspiron Zino HD mini-PC! If you’re not familiar with the the Zino HD, it’s a full featured desktop that’s packed with an impressive array of technology – like an AMD Athon II V140 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB
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Last week, Dharmesh discussed our focus on building great experiences for consumers as well as partnering deeply with other companies that create amazing services customers love to use. Today, we’re pleased to announce another of those great partnerships: LinkedIn. We love LinkedIn’s tag line, “Relationships Matter,” because at Windows Live, our goal is to
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We’ve kept ourselves busy this summer. A few months ago, we released a re-invented Windows Live Hotmail designed around what people said they wanted—a more efficient service to help them manage clutter with features like Sweep and one-click filters, save time with ActiveViews, share hundreds
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It’s been just one week since we went final with the Windows Phone Developer Tools. The uptake has been incredibly strong, and we have been so excited to hear how happy developers were with the additions of the Panorama, Pivot and Bing Maps controls. Well, that’s last week’s news.
Security is foundational to everything we do at Microsoft –small business owners tell me they want technology that not only improves productivity but equally important they want reassurance that their work is safeguarded.
With Windows 7 Professional, we made sure to include a breadth of security features to help our small business customers keep their PCs protected and secured. We
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As we continue to evolve security and privacy at Microsoft, we are doing more than securing our own products and refining our own processes – we are continually responding to the growing and changing threat landscape. Despite the proliferation and increasing impact of threats in the environment, many consumers and small businesses, both in mature and emerging markets remain unprotected.
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