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Analyzing Windows Store tidbits
Here’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.

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Analyzing Windows Store tidbits
Analyzing Windows Store tidbits
Here’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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Tellme on Windows Phone vs Siri on iPhone
In a Forbes interview with Microsoft’s Craig Mundie , Chief Research and Strategy Officer, he contended that comparing Apple’s Siri on the iPhone 4S and Tellme on Windows Phones At least a technological capability you could argue Microsoft has had a similar capability in Windows Phone for more than a year… All that is already there, fully functionality for years.
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MIX11: Windows Phone 7 app wall
Microsoft took the liberty at MIX11 conference today to honor the work of Windows Phone 7 application developers today with an “app wall”, or to be more precise three walls, to showcase the number of applications in the Marketplace. Undeniably inspired by Apple’s App Wall from WWDC 2009 , Microsoft covered three walls of a cubicle (although it might be hiding a surprise for tomorrow) next to the Windows Phone booth in the “Commons” exhibition hall with a print of thousands of icons from apps on the Marketplace. Obviously a static image is not nearly as cool as an interactive visualization that animates when someone actually purchases an application, developers were visibly just as much excited spotting their own application

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Bing Japan’s condolence image of the day
As someone who pays a lot of attention to the Bing websites’ image of the day , the picture for Bing Japan today grabbed my attention. Unusually, there was no photograph, but just a humble block of text on a plain background.

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Bing Japan’s condolence image of the day
Microsoft Australia’s sketchy developer evangelism portal is #winning
We have some pretty awesome Microsoft developer evangelists down under.

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Microsoft Australia’s sketchy developer evangelism portal is #winning
Chain of Fools: a video experiment to upgrade every version of Windows
As a huge Reddit fan, I just had to share this awesome Windows-related video shared on the site that’s becoming popular. The premise of “Chain of Fools” , although simple but extremely fascinating, is an experiment to upgrade from each major version of Windows to the next
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Chain of Fools: a video experiment to upgrade every version of Windows
Microsoft Sputnik concept boxshot makes me wish it was so much more
Sometimes the deadpool contains a few unpolished gems too. Thanks to a tip from Stephen Chapman of MSFTKitchen , we now have a concept image of what might have been the packaging and boxart for the ill-fated Microsoft wireless webcam product cleverly branded Sputnik . Although it’s not very productive to speculate on dead projects, I think this project missed an opportunity to evolve the webcams industry once and for all.

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Microsoft Sputnik concept boxshot makes me wish it was so much more
Apple shows how Shadow Copy is suppose to be done
Once again, Microsoft may have implemented the technology first, but Apple has turned it into a compelling end-user experience. Credit where credit is due for both parties.

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Windows Phone 7 update gets a release date – News – Know Your Mobile
The Windows Phone 7 update has a release date – it’s expected to land on February 7 . ..
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