This weekend has had lots of little bits of news, nothing I thought needed a single post about them but now there are so many bits of news I thought I should write up about them all.
Windows Live Wave 4 Mail
From Twitter it appears as though the next version of Windows Live Mail will support Gmail’s labels, archiving and stars, this comes from @fxshaw, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications, in reply to a tweet from @joshuatopolsky, editor in chief of Engadget.
More info from Liveside.
Zune to have more formats than just XviD
It transpired about 2 weeks ago that the Zune HD would soon have XviD support and now it looks like it could well gain OGG and MOV support in an up coming update. If this is true I wonder what else could be coming soon to Zune that we don’t yet know about.
More info from Zunited.
Windows Mobile 7 Tested
Well apparently at least one person, Eldar Murtazin, outside Microsoft has used an early build of Windows Mobile 7 and found that apps from the previous versions of the mobile OS aren’t compatible with the newer OS. For me its not surprising that older apps weren’t working on the build of Windows Mobile 7 as its very likely the new OS has a completely different back end from the older versions. But because old apps didn’t work does not mean they wont, I wouldn’t be surprised either way with allowing older apps to run on the new OS. However, Microsoft would be rather silly to fracture their mobile OS ecosystem in such a way; I expect that when the mobile OS comes to market it will be possible to run older apps, maybe not all but certainly some. We know Microsoft like their compatibility modes and legacy support, through XP Mode, on Windows and I think a lesser version could well work on powerful phones with a 1 GHz processor or better.
More info from Engadget.
LG give a more precise release date for Windows Mobile 7
Again it is LG stating when Windows Mobile will be on the market, first it was by the end of 2010 and now they say they will be releasing devices in September running the new mobile OS. Of course this could well be wrong but its always interesting to hear such things, its also a surprisingly early date as I was thinking by the end of 2010 meant very late in the year.
More info from Engadget.
Windows 7 SP1 screenshots
Not sure why this made it on to quite a few sites, its only a couple of screenshots that show nothing interesting to me but such is the unquenchable thirst for tech news.
If you want to see the pictures then head over to MuyWindows.
