Amazon Nabs Windows Phone's Developer Experience Lead
Brandon Watson, the leader of the Developer Experience team for Windows Phone 7, is leaving Microsoft for Amazon. Watson had worked for and left Microsoft in the past, and it isn’t…
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Microsoft May Not Kill Zune After All
Fresh off the leaked Windows Phone 8 news that seemed to signal the end of Zune as we know it, Microsoft has a new deal out that seems to paint…
This Week at Microsoft
While the rest of the tech world has had a singular focus this week (Facebook’s filing to go public), Microsoft has been busy stirring up all sorts of narratives. It…
Nokia Dominates Windows Phone Sales
Just two weeks ago we brought you figures that showed Nokia as controlling some 45% of second generation Windows Phone handset unit sales. New data out today confirms that early…
Skype for Windows Phone May Launch by Month's End
Microsoft could launch Skype for Windows Phone by the end of the month, after it was reported by The Verge that it has already begun seeding a test version of…
I Switched to Bing on the iPhone and It Didn't Kill Me
By the time that Microsoft announced its Bing search engine in 2009, Google had long since become a verb and several failed attempts at the search game were under the bridge….
How to Reserve a Lumia 900 in the United States
Do you live in the United States? Near a Microsoft store? Do you want a Nokia Lumia 900 as quickly as possible? If you answered yes to all three of…
Microsoft's New Game: Platform Unification
A massive dump of information just fell upon the tech world, detailing much of what Windows Phone 8 will eventually contain. This gave Paul Thurrott the green light to drop…
Windows Phone 8 'Apollo' Details Revealed
A trove of details about Microsoft’s next version of Windows Phone, code-named Apollo, have been revealed thanks to an internal video for partners uncovered by Pocketnow. The specifics of what…
Microsoft Takes its Gmail Spoof Live
Six months ago, an internal Microsoft clip that the company had shown to its employees at its Global Exchange sales conference leaked. We covered it at the time, as the video…
Nokia Uses Cupcakes to Boost its Lumia Phones
The Lumia launch continues. Yesterday, the Nokia Lumia 800 went on sale on Belgium, and to celebrate that fact, by which we mean to make it known, the Finnish company…
Apple Grabs Former Xbox Live Marketing Chief
Apple has named former Microsoft Product Marketing chief Robin Burrowes as the head of App Store Marketing for iTunes Europe, becoming the latest games executive to join Apple’s ranks. MCV…
IE Pulls a Chrome, Steals Share From Rivals
Consider us surprised. The January market share numbers are out for web browsers, and Internet Explorer not only failed to leak new market share, it gained over a point, seemingly…
Google responds to Microsoft's privacy policy criticism
Earlier today, Microsoft took the overblown controversy around Google’s privacy policy changes (which are mostly harmless) as as an opportunity to criticize Google and offer its own products as alternatives,…
Microsoft Must Detail Windows 8 ARM App Support
For a company that has worked so hard in recent years to curry favor with developers, Microsoft has certainly been annoyingly secretive about its plans for with Windows 8 and…
