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Student-created “Bing Automatic” app concept augments desktop with search engine
First and foremost, “Bing Automatic” is a completely conceptual idea envisioned by what appears to be a team of marketing students for a college coursework assignment, so apply a generous coating of salt.
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Short: Smoked by Windows Phone got too big too quickly
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challenge, highlights, house, laptop, marketing, microsoft, microsoft-store, microsoftstore, offer-the-prize, opportunity, prize, table, windows, windows-phoneA somewhat unfortunate story unraveled today surrounding Microsoft’s “ Smoked by Windows Phone ” challenge which started at the show floor of CES 2012 and has recently become a US-wide advertising campaign. I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost “Just Because” I headed down to the Santa Clara Microsoft Store this morning after hearing about the Windows Phone challenge last night. For those not familiar, anyone who completes a task faster than a Windows Phone on their own smart phone can win a $1000 Special Edition Laptop assuming they meet some standard terms and conditions.
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Short: Smoked by Windows Phone got too big too quickly
Nokia firing all cylinders for Windows Phone marketing in Australia
Since the Australian launch of the Lumia range earlier this month, Nokia seems to have done more Windows Phone marketing in Australia than any other device manufacture and Microsoft combined. If carrier sell-outs are any indication, it’s working. For most of this week I’ve been traveling to the Melbourne CBD and it’s been surprising just how much Lumia advertising I see day to day – on several bus shelters, train station displays, tram stops and even on the back page of MX – a popular free metropolitan newspaper.
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Giveaway competition for 3 HP ProLiant MicroServers (Australians only)
Here’s the generous HP competition I alluded to last week where they’re giving not one but three HP ProLiant MicroServers to three lucky Aussies.
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Giveaway competition for 3 HP ProLiant MicroServers (Australians only)
HP ProLiant MicroServer: the neat little server for home & small business comes to Australia
Goodbye HP MediaSmart Home Servers.
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HP ProLiant MicroServer: the neat little server for home & small business comes to Australia
Short: IE9 ad explores a more beautiful web
Microsoft today released a new TV ad for Internet Explorer 9 to illustrate a more beautiful web. Even though the ad is for a browser, it’s also the big break for the UK sing-songwriter Alex Clare who Microsoft dedicated nearly the entire press release to promote
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Short: IE9 ad explores a more beautiful web
Segoe UI gets a subtle facelift in Windows 8
The hallmark Windows font, Segoe UI , has gone under the knife for its appearance in Windows 8 with a handful of changes and improvements. Some obvious – styling of particular characters of numbers, and others not so obvious – addition of OpenType stylistic sets, ligatures and international character sets. Thanks for a heads up from David Warner , Microsoft has been slowly bumping up the version number of Segoe UI from 5.01 in Windows 7 to 5.12 in Windows 8′s Developer Preview and more recently 5.16 in the Consumer Preview .
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Segoe UI gets a subtle facelift in Windows 8
Windows 8′s application SmartScreen: speed bump for desktop apps
kylecatarn Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8 2012-at-201-am, 2012-at-232-am, digital, istartedsomething, metrotwit, microsoft, reputation, smart, windows, Windows 7, windows 8After installing the Windows 8 Consumer Preview , one of the first things I tried was to install and run MetroTwit Loop . To my dismay, my screen darkened. “Windows protected your PC” it read
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Delivering on “Seamless computing” vision: presentation app for Surface, Windows & iPad
jameslogon32 Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8 australia, istartedsomething, metrotwit, microsoft, office, photo, power, video, visual-studio, Windows 7, windows 8, windows-038-ipadIt’s always nice to see conceptual software demos realized with shipping code. Half a year after the Australian software firm nsquared demoed their visionary “seamless computing” concept at Microsoft Teched Australia 2011, they’re now delivering on their vision with a solution that aims to make group collaboration easier. Their new presenter software allows people in a meeting room to collaboratively create, annotate and deliver presentations
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Delivering on “Seamless computing” vision: presentation app for Surface, Windows & iPad
Visual Studio 11′s secret weapon for designers: PowerPoint Storyboarding
OdryIZ19 Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8 design, enterprise, istartedsomething, metrotwit, microsoft, power, powerpoint, storyboarding, tool, visual, windows 8During today’s sneak peek announcement of the monochromatic Visual Studio 11 Beta to be released next week, Microsoft slipped in a new screenshot of the PowerPoint Storyboarding tool that will ship as part of Visual Studio 11. The tool which ships as an add-in for PowerPoint will allow designers and developers to quickly mock up wireframe-based prototypes of their application using familiar presentation tools and animations, along with a host of UI controls which they can drag and drop to replicate a real application experience. Windows desktop, Windows Phone mobile and web applications are all supported with a range of templates and controls suited to each scenario.
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