Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Windows Phone 7 Principal OS for Nokia

February 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Nokia and Microsoft just announced a strategic partnership in which Windows Phone 7 will become the principal smartphone OS for Nokia. Nokia is the first European device vendor to join Microsoft.

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Microsoft to Offer Operator Billing in Windows Marketplace

January 20th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Microsoft has closed an agreement with Mach to facilitate operator billing for the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. As you could read this morning, Operator billing is highly popular in countries like The Netherlands.

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Microsoft Questions ‘App Store’ Trademark

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

After being battled about the ‘Windows’ trademark being too generic, Microsoft is now chasing up Apple for the same thing. Microsoft believes the term ‘App Store’ is too generic.

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Microsoft Details Windows Phone 7 Update

January 6th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

To cut an end to the rumours, Microsoft has started to publish details about the upcoming updates to Windows Phone 7. The only thing the company didn’t detail yet is when we can expect them.

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Consumers Start WP7 Petition for Global Marketplace

December 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

As many know, Windows Phone 7 only had a full launch in several bigger markets while smaller markets do sell the WP7 hardware without having any WP7 services attached to it.

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1.5 Million Windows Phone 7 Devices With Consumers and Retail

December 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

In the first six weeks of launch, 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 devices have been shipped to retailers and operators (we assume most of them landed with consumers by now).

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Microsoft Developing ARM Branch of Windows 7?

December 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

If rumors are right, Microsoft is nearly ready with a special version of Windows 7 that is able to run on ARM-based processors. This would improve Windows 7’s scalability toward tablet based devices.

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Paramount to Release Enhanced Movie Apps on WP7

December 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

It seems Microsoft has found a way to leap forward when it comes to watching TV on the Windows Phone 7 platform. Paramount announced the release of enhanced movie apps that bring the DVD/Blue Ray experience to the consumer.

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Windows Phone 7 Payments Coming Early

December 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Though it was communicated in time by Microsoft, recently developers started complaining that reporting and payments had not been made available yet. It seems Microsoft has been working extra hard as payments will come one month ahead of schedule.

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Microsoft to Re-Lock Unlocked Devices

December 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

As it turns out, Microsoft seems to have implemented a little trick into their devices that re-locks devices that have been unlocked through the ChevronWP7 tool.

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