Today Microsoft have decided their Microsoft Tag no longer needs the beta name and in doing so given the website and service a makeover and added new features. In their blog post about Tag being launched they claim some impressive figure, the most impressive being that over 1 billion Tags have been printed to date, [...]
Last week Microsoft Advertising launched a new service for advertisers to use aimed at making adverts more engaging by adding rich media to them. Microsoft have currently teamed up with Sprint in the US to provide the adds which can be seen on MSN, FOX Sports and CNBC but only on the iPhone and iPod [...]
So there I was sitting in my apartment one Thursday evening in late April, my desk lamp casting shadows around the room whilst I reviewed the news from the day with Microsoft announcing a competitor to Facebook’s Open Graph and Steve Jobs openly attacking Adobe’s Flash. When all of a sudden I heard a great [...]
Just a short post to let you know that we can expect the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 2 to be released in the third week of May so in about three weeks which as promised is 8 weeks after the original platform preview was released. It will be interesting to see what improvements have [...]
The New York Times have word on Microsoft’s Courier device from a employee “who has seen the device” who has said that the device is about the size of a paper back book when closed and to expect the device in 2011 although no date has been confirmed. Microsoft are said to be indecisive about [...]
I have just seen a post on WMPowerUser.com about Microsoft investing in n-trig a company that “develops and produces multi-touch systems”. The interesting thing about these screens is that not only does the company work on good multi touch finger support but also pen input through its DuoSense Technology. Need I point out what Microsoft [...]
A few weeks back I told you I was working on a Metro dedicated site that will hopefully keep you up to date on the latest Metro UI news and will have information about the latest Metro inspired apps and themes, well today the site is now live. Metro UI, for those of you who [...]
By the end of the year Microsoft will be offering at least 2 new major consumer products in the way of the Kin devices and Windows Phone 7 devices which make both feature Zune and the Zune Pass and Windows Phone 7 features Xbox Live. There is also the possibility that there will be a [...]
Read more MML’s Kin coverage – What is it? – My View The Kin devices have taken the same approach as the Windows Phone 7 team in that they are making sure as many other Microsoft services are integrated into the device as possible such as the obvious ones Windows Live, Zune and Bing search. [...]
In this article I will keep you updated with the major announces from before, during and after Microsoft “Its time to share” announcement about Project Pink. // Following a leaked image of what appears to be two new phones from Microsoft on Verizon’s database it has been suggested that the launch names of these devices [...]