Yesterday we started delivering another round of hardware-specific updates to Windows Phones around the world. As I explained last week, these are being sent to specific models—not every phone—and are designed to make targeted improvements to things like battery life, call clarity, or touch responsiveness, depending on the model.
We’ll send these hardware-specific updates from time to time.
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When I say “Lenovo” to most PC users, their immediate response is “Oh, the guys who make ThinkPads?” That’s to be expected; Lenovo is world-famous for building some of the best business PCs on the market. What most people don’t know is that they also make some really beautiful consumer PCs as well. Today’s
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Hello everyone. Windows Phone user Tammilee Tillison of Tammilee’s Tips was featured on TLC’s Extreme Couponing earlier this year using her HTC HD7 to track coupons during a shopping trip. So, we asked her to share some of her favorite apps, tips and tricks for maximizing money savings with your Windows Phone.
Tips from Tammilee
My coupon journey
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Last month, we released Beta 2 of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1. Yesterday, Windows Phone Engineering CVP Terry Myerson announced Windows Phone OS RTM. Today, I’m excited to announce that we are offering a refresh of the beta tools to our registered developer community.
Starting this morning, you can download the Windows Phone SDK 7.1
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Microsoft currently has a nonprofit software donations program set up to help nonprofits gain access to the latest and greatest software from Microsoft. This program is available in over 100 countries across the world and since 1998 over $3.9 billion worth of software has been donated. Of that, Windows has accounted for nearly $450 million worth of donations.
Today, we
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I’ve mentioned before the strong commercial adoption we’re seeing with Windows 7 (a few companies we’ve talked about are GM, Spir-IT and Feeding America), and we couldn’t be happier to help our business customers make the upgrade to take full advantage of the enhanced security, manageability and performance that Windows 7
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An estimated 25 million cameras were sold in the US in 2010. Similarly, 81% of US homes own at least one digital camera. That means that roughly 100 million houses in the US already own a digital camera and almost ¼ of those people were buying a new camera. The long and the short
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This week on Windows Phone Radio, Matt and Brian invite Todd Biggs and JP Wollersheim to the podcast studio. Todd talks about some of the cool enhancements to the App Hub for our developer friends, and JP talks about photos and imaging. We had another run in with some mic technology fail, I was able to get our guest’s levels
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As of this week, the Games for Windows Marketplace has a new home on Xbox.com. When you now visit GamesForWindows.com you will be taken to Xbox.com. Now you can purchase and get details on your favorite Games for Windows and Xbox 360 games all in one place! Your Games For Windows and Xbox LIVE profiles are the
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Hey everyone. Greetings from beautiful (and scorching hot!) Toronto. I’ve been vacationing here with family this week—and putting my Mango-loaded phone through its paces. It’s been a great holiday helper, keeping the kids entertained and helping me quickly pinpoint nice places to eat and drink near our hotel. Given my focus on relaxation, I went heavy on game-related news this
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Just a geek who loves to make his computer run extremely fast and reliably :-)
