Windows Phone Mango has been finalized and is all ready to be implemented by smartphone manufacturers on new devices. Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile is the first manufacturer to step up to the plate by launching the first ever Mango-powered smartphone to Japanese customers, and perhaps soon in other countries all across the world.
Currently, moving files around using Windows can be a rather painful experience, especially when merging folders or handling duplicates. Microsoft is working hard to fix all of that with Windows 8, at least according to a blog post on the company's brand-new Building Windows 8 blog.
If you're a regular reader of this site, you're probably aware that HP has recently decided to put its line of webOS hardware to rest, leaving all of the platforms developers wondering what to do next. In response, Microsoft has been offering extensive help to all of the platform's developers develop apps for Windows Phone 7, which has received a phenomenal response.
Shortly after Internet Explorer 9 was released back in March, Microsoft began releasing Platform Previews of Internet Explorer 10. These "previews" don't include a user interface beyond a menu bar with a few essential options and therefore can't be used as a standard browser, yet there's a way to bring the engine from the Internet Explorer 10 developer previews to Internet Explorer 9's user interface.
If you're a regular reader of this site, there should be no need to tell you that webOS is on its way out as HP has decided to discontinue all webOS hardware, such as the Pre and the TouchPad. The developers who were developing software for the platform will likely feel the pinch, unless they take Microsoft's offer and start developing apps for Windows Phone 7 instead.
Its no surprise that Apple is setting the standards when it comes to design and innovation of smartphones and tablets, whilst rivals continue to imitate!
When using a phone, many of us expect to be able to know where our friends are. Sure, it's easy to give them a call, but in a world when touchscreens and the Internet are at our fingerprints (quite literally, in the case of smartphones), there are better options which are being explored by Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 app, "We're In".
Microsoft today has updated their Bing app for Android which features revised design and a handful of other little updated features.
If you're a Windows enthusiast, you've likely spent the greater part of the last year scattering the Internet for information about what Microsoft is planning for the future of the platform. Today, we're all getting to learn a little bit more, since yet another build of Windows 8 has surfaced, or should we rather say, leaked.
If you're an Xbox 360 user, you're likely always striving for added features and enhanced software, and so far Microsoft hasn't treated its users badly at all, with new updates coming up fairly often, including a major user interface redesign in the past years. Now, it seems as if Microsoft is gearing up for a another new Dashboard update for the Xbox 360.
