How Microsoft Can Win the Developer War
Yesterday I was lucky to be the guest yet again on the Windows Phone Dev podcast, a show that is kind enough to have me just about every month. During…
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This Week at Microsoft
Did you miss this post last week? I had my feet up on my desk, pretending that vacationing at home in the Chicago winter is glamorous (protip: it’s not). But I’m back, and that…
Microsoft Working to Bring Kinect to Laptops?
Microsoft knows it is on to a winner with its Kinect accessory, having sold 18 million of them in a year since its launch, recently announcing that it would soon…
No Personal Images for Windows 8 Start Screen
According to TechRadar, Windows 8 is not going to be as customizable as we might have thought. In an entry of various Windows 8 news, it paraphrased Microsoft’s Chris Flores as…
Microsoft Expands Windows Phone Ad Solution
Every new platform has a phase of ‘ramping up,’ during which it slowly expands its reach and, therefore, its potential. Ad platforms nearly always go through this sort of thing,…
Windows 8 Inches Towards Beta
According to the sieve-like WinUnleaked.tk, Windows 8 has hit reached its final pre-beta build. The timing of this is not surprising, if slightly early. The full Windows 8 public beta…
Nokia Subsidizing the Lumia 900 With MSFT Cash?
As we learned today, Microsoft is paying Nokia some $250 million (USD) a quarter to use its Windows Phone mobile operating system. At a rate of one billion dollars a…
Microsoft Paid Nokia $250m for Windows Phone Use
Finnish mobile giant Nokia today released its fourth quarter financial results, posting a €1.07 billion ($1.4 billion) loss as sales declined by 21% year on year with smartphone sales and mobile…
Microsoft, Not Apple, Will Rule Smart TV
For Christmas this year, I was finally able to shed the cash to pick up an Xbox 360 along with a Kinect. While I do enjoy playing the games, what…
The HTC Titan II is DOA
According to BGR, the HTC Titan II, a LTE Windows Phone handset, is set to launch on the AT&T network on March 18th, along with Nokia’s Lumia 900. We feel…
A $99 Lumia 900 is Terrible for Android
If you had asked me what price point the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone handset would retail for (on contract) here in the United States, I would have said $199.99…
Will Microsoft Subsidize the Xbox 720?
News came out today that essentially confirmed what we all knew to be true already: the next Xbox — the Xbox 720 — is coming this year, and it will…
Official Hotmail app now available on Kindle Fire
Microsoft has been unafraid to create apps that run on devices made by competing companies, and the latest official app to arrive is Hotmail for Kindle Fire. Previously, Hotmail could…
Microsoft Fingers Antivirus Employee Over Kelihos Botnet
This is right out of the ‘oh come on, really’ department. According to Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (we love that name), The creator of the short-lived Kelihos botnet worked for an…
Nokia's Lumia 800 Performing Strongly in Denmark
If you read TNW with any regularity, you know that we spend a nearly unconscionable amount of time trying to figure out which smartphones sell the best, and how many total units they…
