Details about developing your Windows Phone 7 apps and getting them on the Windows Phone marketplace.
After a no-event for Windows 7 launch, Microsoft India has been quite active on social media for Office 2010’s launch. Microsoft India has been quite generous and will be giving way two Office 2007 licenses via me (India only)
Giveaway Details:
What: Two licenses of Office 2007 Home and Student that can be upgraded to Office 2010 for free.
Why Office 2007: because Office 2010 isn’t available to general public till next month.
Where: One license via this blog and one via my podcast – Microsoft Talk.
How:
Microsoft Office has created a Facebook app for users to submit their names to create a custom dictionary for office 2010.
With Windows Phone 8 the chassis requirements will be refreshed to newer hardware specs thereby not allowing Windows Phone 7 devices to be compatible with Windows Phone 8.
Bill Gates is visiting India as part of his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and plans to adopt a village in India and has also pledged monetary support to the government.
The Office Labs team has updated the awesome powerpoint addon tool pptPlex that converts presentations into a canvas of slides allowing you to zoom and pan around.
Microsfot Live Wave 4 has a new icon. The icon is 4 superimposed on the Windows flag.
Microsoft Middle East has released a transliteration tool for Arabic called Microsoft Maren.
Windows Live Wave 4 is set to install a driver named Windows Live Display Driver that is likely to replace the Mesh Remote Desktop Driver.
Microsoft Research project TellTable allows you to create your own stories by including your own objects and characters using a camera and Surface’s multi-touch capabilities.
Microsoft India has launched an online and offline campaign by tieing up with technology magazine publishers called My Safe PC where some of Microsoft’s end user products are made available as a package.
Two demos shown at Tech Ed India highlighting the Silverlight’s capabilities on Windows Phone 7 – A 3D Cube browser and rotating vieos across the X-Y axis.
Looks like Apple is offering a feature for enterprises that Microsoft has applied a patent for.
A couple of annoyances in Hotmail and Windows Live Mail that make a user’s experience not so pleasurable.
54 wallpapers of 17 Microsoft products and 7 Windows themes of the wallpapers.
Patent explains the radial context menu as seen in Microsoft Courier’s promotional demo UI videos. The context menu is designed to suit touch interfaces by showing the frequently used options more prominently for quick access.
3 new videos from microsoft pitching Windows 7 to business users. Continuing from the ‘Windows 7 was my Idea’ to a ‘You spoke, We listened’ campaign And companies talking about their Windows 7 experiences.
Changes, improvements and new features in the recently leaked Windows Live Wave 4 Windows Live Mail.
Here’s a quick look at the changes in Live Writer Wave 4.
Some thoughts on Windows Phone 7 Series platform and comments made by Mozilla, John Gruber about copy/paste in Windows phone and the iPhone 4 OS
Patent shows possible Windows 8 interface with new categories for data like Libraries and a rich feedback driven drag and drop interface.
Some early screen shots of Bing’s design and the evolution of the Bing homepage and search results page shown at MIX 10.
Microsoft NUI guru Bill Buxton demonstrated what looks like Microsoft’s Courier tablet PC’s User Interface in action.
Hotmail’s sign in apge gets tweaked, Windows Live Wave 4 web apps to get segoe typography similar to Metro UI.
Microsoft patent shows pressure sensitive mouse, where interaction depends on the pressure applied when clicked. Classified as normal tap or hard tap.