Microsoft may have used an unreleased HTC Mazaa device during its MIX11 Windows Phone demos. The HTC Mazaa is a CDMA Windows Phone device that will arrive on the U.S. Sprint network later this year. … read more
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Microsoft benchmarks Windows Phone browser against iPhone 4 and Android, wins
13th Apr 11 7:42 pm with 82 CommentsMicrosoft kicked off a HTML5 mobile browser war on Wednesday after demonstrating its Internet Explorer 9 mobile for Windows Phone. Joe Belfiore, Director of the Windows Phone program, demonstrated Internet Explorer 9 mobile against Apple’s iPhone … read more
Microsoft hands out free Kinect devices to MIX11 developers
13th Apr 11 7:20 pm with 2 CommentsMicrosoft announced on Wednesday that it will supply MIX11 developers with free Kinect devices. Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Platform, announced the news to excited audience members on Wednesday. Guthrie thanked developers … read more
Microsoft demonstrates Spotify for Windows Phone “Mango” [video]
13th Apr 11 6:13 pm with 3 CommentsMicrosoft revealed new features for its next-generation Windows Phone release on Wednesday. Codenamed “Mango” the release will include a number of new developer related features that third partys can utilize for their applications. Microsoft Spotify … read more
Angry Birds coming to Windows Phone 7 on May 25
13th Apr 11 5:49 pm with 7 CommentsMicrosoft confirmed on Wednesday that Angry Birds will be available for Windows Phone 7 on May 25. Rovio previously confirmed that Angry Birds was on its way to Microsoft’s new mobile platform in February. Rovio’s Peter … read more
Microsoft unveils Windows Phone “Mango” improvements for developers
13th Apr 11 5:17 pm with 13 CommentsMicrosoft unveiled a range of new features on Wednesday for its next release of Windows Phone. Speaking at the MIX11 developers conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft revealed that it’s planning a beta release of a … read more
Silverlight 5 beta now available to download
13th Apr 11 5:13 pm with 4 CommentsMicrosoft announced the first beta of Silverlight 5 on Wednesday. Silverlight 5 beta includes new capabilities such as Hardware Video Decode, for enhanced video quality and performance, and “Trickplay,” which provides variable-rate video playback with audio … read more
Kinect for Windows SDK beta sign-up now live, download in Spring
13th Apr 11 5:06 pm with 4 CommentsMicrosoft announced its Kinect for Windows SDK beta on Wednesday. Robust Skeletal Tracking for high-performance capabilities that track the skeleton image of one or two persons moving within the Kinect field of view Advanced Audio … read more
Windows “vNext” PDC 2011 scheduled for September 13-16
13th Apr 11 11:23 am with 7 CommentsMicrosoft revealed on Tuesday that it plans to hold its next Professional Developers Conference in September. Windows chief Steven Sinofsky revealed the date during a keynote appearance at Microsoft’s MIX11 conference on Tuesday. The company … read more
Windows Phone MIX11 sessions revealed, Sensor Access and New Data Access on the way
12th Apr 11 8:40 pm with 8 CommentsMicrosoft has taken the wraps off a number of Windows Phone related sessions at MIX11. Here’s the interesting ones, revealed by Microsoft on Tuesday, that were previously marked as TBD: What’s Coming Next to the … read more