Celebrating Windows 7’s one-year anniversary, Microsoft Netherlands spilled the beans on the expected launch date for Windows 7’s successor. In a blog post on its Dutch website, Microsoft said that Windows 8 is roughly two years away from hitting the market.
Windows 7 has been a powerful success for Microsoft. As an evolutionary upgrade to Vista, it patched almost all of Vista’s glaring holes: broken driver support, sluggish performance and the horribly annoying User-Account Control. It sold more than 240 million licenses in one year and its next release will, according to Ballmer, be Microsoft’s riskiest product bet yet.
While iOS is the undisputed king of smartphone gaming, Windows Phone 7 seems to be all set to give it a run for its money. Gaming looks legitimately sweet on WP7.
Although Microsoft never released synchronization software for their Zune players on OS X, they have officially announced that Macs will get a tool which will allow users to sync some content with WP7 phones.
Officially speaking, HTC’s HD2 will not be getting a Windows Phone 7 upgrade. All because it doesn’t comply with WP7’s hardware specifications. And what hardware specs, you might ask? Not having three buttons! Yes, HD2 won’t get WP7 all because it has two extra buttons despite the fact that it meets all other specifications.
Microsoft is taking legal action against the company behind the popular Android-based Droid handsets - Motorola - for infringing nine patents that the company is allegedly using without licensing in their phones.
Neowin has received information that Microsoft is set to launch a wide range of Windows Phone 7 devices on October 21 in UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain (US 21st Oct release date is not confirmed yet).
Forbes recently updated their 400 Richest Americans list and well, let’s just say that a certain 26 year old iPhone-hating Facebook CEO is now worth more than you can ever be.
Brandon Miniman of Pocket Now has posted a very interesting video in which he compares the operating / homescreening system of Windows Phone 7 against iPhone 4 running iOS 4.x. Both have certain similarities along with places where WP7 and iOS completely take separate paths.
Folks at WMPoweruser have unearthed a schematic image of HTC’s enthusiastically anticipated HD7 (release date confirmed with price). HTC HD7 is the true successor of the Windows Mobile 6.5-based HD2. It is expected to have internals similar to the recently announced Desire HD which includes a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 786MB of RAM, an eyegasm-inducing 4.3” screen along with an 8MP camera(w/ flash).
