Whoa, Microsoft! Big spender! Nice cufflinks! And are you wearing $108 sweatpants from Lululemon? You must be doing really well for yourself.
The backstory: Microsoft and Nokia struck a partnership wherein Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 mobile platform will be used on Nokia’s many, many smartphone handsets that ship all over the …
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An angel of a saint of a man on YouTube has documented the installation of Windows 1.0 followed by an upgrade to every subsequent version of Windows thereafter. He opts for Windows 2000 instead of Windows ME, …
Microsoft isn’t one to be left too far behind, tacking daily deals onto its Bing search product. Bing Deals for the desktop and mobile gives thousands of unique offers spanning 14,000 cities and towns in the U.S.
Being a search engine, the new Deals section aggregates offers from top providers, including Groupon, Living Social and …
Should Apple own the exclusive rights to the term “App Store”? Microsoft sure doesn’t think so, and Apple’s latest trademark filings couldn’t resist taking a jab or two at its biggest, longest-standing competitor.
(More on TIME.com: Top 10 Consumer Tech Rivalries)
On Monday evening, Apple filed its newest round of …
If you enjoy subtle jabs between Google and Microsoft, this round goes to Google. Per a company blog post:
“Many of you already use Google Docs for editing your documents, but there are still many people that are tied to desktop applications and haven’t experienced the numerous benefits cloud applications bring.”
Translation: …
Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 platform is preparing to expand to another carrier. Starting March 20th, Sprint customers will be able to purchase the HTC Arrive for $200 after a $100 mail-in rebate and two-year contract.
Here in the U.S., Windows Phone 7 devices are currently available on AT&T and T-Mobile. Verizon plans to add the …
There’s a big software update coming for Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 devices next month but the company’s rolling out some sort of minor pre-update in order to grease the wheels, so to speak.
That update has been gradually rolling out over the air to certain users this week, and people have been reporting that some Samsung …
Microsoft’s made history with the record-setting launch of the Kinect sensor for their Xbox 360. While the games released at launch were generally a bit twee, much of the buzz around the device came from hackers who made Kinect useful in ways that weren’t necessarily intended. Everything from holography to Super Mario interoperability to …
You may have to pack up your Zune and say goodbye to your Zune-related products soon. Since Microsoft is refusing to say the Z word as of late, some have said they may be getting rid or rebranding the music-based device and related products. Unfortunately, the statement made to All Things D only fueled the rumors:
We’re not
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Funny story: When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 back in the fall, the splash page on its website featured a bunch of icons for apps that’d be available in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
One of those icons was the Angry Birds logo.
Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, swiftly responded via Twitter:
“We have NOT committed to
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Nokia and Microsoft have announced a partnership wherein Nokia will build handsets running Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 operating system.
There aren’t any hard-and-fast dates for when the first Nokia-branded Windows phones will hit the market, but some of the highlights of the partnership are as follows:
– Nokia will use the …
Former head of Microsoft’s business division, Stephen Elop is now the CEO of Finnish cellphone maker Nokia. While he’s been in place since late last fall, Elop’s latest company-wide memo portrays a hard, cold, long look in the mirror at a company that once dominated the cell phone industry but is now “not even fighting with the right …
