Yesterday Microsoft released a collection of excellent updates to the whole SkyDrive experience, it started off with some small updates to the iOS and Windows Phones apps bringing them up to version 2.0 and it concluded with the rollout of new desktop apps for the cloud storage service, tiered storage plans and the ability to [...]
Well what a week it has been. It kicked off quite explosively with Google announcing that it planned to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5. That was shocking enough, the worlds biggest search company and probably the biggest web company will now be branching out into hardware. There’s no doubt going to be teething problems for [...]
Well yesterday proved to be an interesting day. A few hours before Farsight, a Bing sponsored event to look into the future of search and was attended by Bing, Google and Blekko, Danny Sullivan of Search Engine published a story about Google’s “Bing Sting”. The story detailed how 20 Google employees had been tasked with [...]
Today Apple has a very low key event where they announced a few updates to their lesser known mobile device…wait what?! In case you weren’t aware Apple have announced the iPhone 4 which packs “over 100 new features” but most interesting for us Microsoft followers is that Bing is now to be featured on the [...]
Following a lot of thinking reaching a pinnacle yesterday when I had been thinking about how cool Windows Phone 7 Series could be only to have the ideas ruined by a post by Paul Thurrott, and amongst other things such as lack of copy and paste on 7 Series, I have decided that MyMicrosoftLife can’t [...]
As some of you may know I was at Microsoft’s London offices yesterday and was pleased to see so many Bing stickers and banners throughout the building. Then when I got back to my flat I saw several article stating that Microsoft will be advertising Bing in a big way in the UK on the [...]
So Google this week have been complaining about how Microsoft has been helping and pushing a few companies in Europe to complain to the EC about Google and start an anti-trust investigation into the company. I think my view on the matter can be easily summed up in this tweet I posted earlier: Heh, Google [...]
Seeing as there is hardly one else to follow on Google Buzz at the moment I though I would share with you some pictures of Buzz…just in case you haven’t seen any yet. Initial look of Buzz with a “buzz” which users can “like”, email and comment on. When wanting to add a new “buzz” [...]
Since the launch of the first iPhone people have increasingly disregarded Microsoft’s Windows Mobile seemingly mostly due to its unchanged appearance and UI. Windows mobile is actually a very capable mobile OS with one of the widest range of devices, the largest number of applications and the most functionality. But in the world of technology [...]
So HTC manufacture the HD2, the most powerful smartphone and Windows Phone current on the market they also produce many other high profile Windows Phones and without the company the Windows Phones would be in a far worse state than the platform currently is. HTC have also worked with Microsoft on the HTC Shift which [...]