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Analyzing Windows Store tidbits
MikeWink 
Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8 
apple, application, canada, customer, istartedsomething, windows, Windows 7, windows 8, windows-storeHere’s just a few interesting and lesser-known tidbits about the Windows Store I found from various Microsoft documentation published today to coincide the announcement event held in San Francisco. From the “ Certification requirements for Windows apps “: 2.4 Your app must do more than open a website or mimic the behavior of a website Your app must provide a reasonable snap state; it shouldn’t be cut off when snapped.
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Analyzing Windows Store tidbits
WP7 Mango: tap-by-turn voice guidance a necessary evil
MikeWink Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8 istartedsomething, mango, microsoft, nokia, phone, screen, windows, Windows 7, windows-phoneAs PocketNow noted in their Windows Phone Mango preview, the new and much anticipated turn-by-turn feature in Bing Maps has a big asterisks that most people are probably not aware of – it requires constant tapping of the screen to activate voice guidance of the next turn. No, this is not a bug, and no, Microsoft isn’t trying to distract you while driving. What it looks to be is an artificial but necessary evil put in place to not breach a certain licensing restriction with Bing Maps, the provider of the routing data.
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WP7 Mango: tap-by-turn voice guidance a necessary evil
Radial menu love for Bing Visual Search prototype
MikeWink Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8 beauty, Concept, istartedsomething, june-28, microsoft, silverlight, toronto, visual-search, windows, Windows 7, windows 8Radial menus , otherwise known as pie menus, don’t get enough love and this prototype for Bing Visual Search proves it.
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Radial menu love for Bing Visual Search prototype
Microsoft Research demos “copy-aware computing”: source control with a twist
MikeWink Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8 australia, australian, desktop, flickr, istartedsomething, microsoft, phone, prototype, research, windows, Windows 7, windows 8Today, operating systems and software have made it exponentially easier to mash-up content, we’re likely to spend more time managing files than actually creating them.
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Microsoft Research demos “copy-aware computing”: source control with a twist
MIX11: Surface 2.0 continues the Metro trend
MikeWink Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8 explorer, metro, microsoft, security, silverlight, surface, windows, Windows 7, windows 8, windows-phoneAt the MIX11 conference today, Microsoft showed off a number of new user-interface controls for the upcoming Surface 2.0 SDK with hints of Metro, further cementing the “design language” as an universal design style spanning many Microsoft products moving forward. The presenter, Luis Cabrera, from the Surface team specifically mentioned “Windows Phone 7′ and the “Zune software” as inspirations for the refreshed set of UI controls for developers to use with the new Surface
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MIX11: Surface 2.0 continues the Metro trend
Hack to get early internal Mango update for your WP7
MikeWink Latest News, Windows 7 australia, california, directions, istartedsomething, life, mango, phone, windows, Windows 7, windows-phoneInspired by the Windows Phone 7 “NoDo” update trick making the rounds this week, Chris Walsh and I have come up with a way to get something even better, an early in-development version of the Mango update . Read and act quickly before Microsoft wises up. The hack, albeit extremely simple in retrospect, involves overriding the update server which the phone checks to a Microsoft staging server (-int) used for testing
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Hack to get early internal Mango update for your WP7
First Microsoft Signature PC comes to Australia with back-to-school Dell XPS 14 laptop offer
MikeWink Latest News, Windows 7 first-microsoft, image, intel, istartedsomething, microsoft, microsoft-signature, student, windows, Windows 7The newly relaunched Microsoft Signature brand has made the huge leap across the Pacific Ocean tonight as the first bloat-free and performance-optimized PC is now available on sale exclusively from the Australian online Microsoft Store .
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First Microsoft Signature PC comes to Australia with back-to-school Dell XPS 14 laptop offer
Microsoft Windows 7 AIO Final Mutil Brands Pre-Activated » Warez …
MikeWink Windows 7, Windows 7 Google Entries edition, enterprise, premium, professional, release-date, ultimate, windows, Windows 7Windows 7 Home Premium N Edition x64 &40;64bit&41; Windows 7 Professional N Edition x64 &40;64bit&41; Windows 7 Enterprise N Edition x64 &40;64bit&41; Windows 7 Ultimate N Edition x64 &40;64bit&41; RELEASE Release Date : 09/2010 …
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Zombies Begin to Invade Windows 7 Phone
MikeWink Windows 7, Windows 7 Google Entries featured, handhelds, microsoft-games, release-date, stories, sub-featured, twin-blades, windows, Windows 7, xbox-360-storiesPublisher: Microsoft Games Studios Genre: Board Platform: Windows Phone 7 . Release Date : Released Cost: $4.99
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Ford and Microsoft’s lead in car-infotainment
MikeWink Latest News, Windows 7 automotive, christmas, development, driving, istartedsomething, microsoft, microsoft-auto, silverlight, slideshow, technology, travel, windows, Windows 7As demand for more energy efficient cars has driven the development of car technologies in the past several years, another aspect of the driving experience, infotainment, is also rapidly changing and Microsoft with partners like Ford is clearly leading the way. Ford’s second-generation SYNC with MyFord Touch included in the newly announced Focus Electric, originally based on top of the Microsoft Auto platform , offers an impressive range of functionality presented with a futuristic user interface both inside the instrument panel and center console
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Ford and Microsoft’s lead in car-infotainment
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