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Screenshots: Windows Phone Marketplace on the Web
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By Paul Thurrott As part of its launch of Windows Phone 7.5 this week, Microsoft also launched a web-based version of its Windows Phone Marketplace. This service is somewhat limited in that it provides access only to apps and games, but it does offer two major features that are missing from the other ways in which you access the Marketplace on the phone and PC. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft Takes Down Another Botnet
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By Paul Thurrott Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it has successfully taken down the Kelihos botnet. This is the third botnet the software giant has taken down a botnet in the past two years, and while Kelihos is not as large as its predecessors, Waledac and Rustock, this one comes with a twist: It’s the first time Microsoft has named a defendant in a botnet civil case. Source: Win Super Site
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Google drops its suit over alleged Microsoft bias in government bid for hosted-cloud platform
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Google has dropped its suit against the U.S. Department of the Interior, claiming that the agency has changed its stance to allow the company to bid against Microsoft for a $49.3 million cloud-hosted apps contract. Source: All About Microsoft
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Amazon is relying on its cloud to optimize the performance of its coming Silk browser. Microsoft, despite its cloud chops, isn’t going the browser-as-a-service route. Source: All About Microsoft
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How will Windows 8 tablets fare against Amazon's Kindle Fire?
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Windows 8 tablets, expected out in 2012, have some new and formidable competition from Amazon’s newly announced Kindle Fire tablet. Source: All About Microsoft
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Windows 8 tablets, expected out in 2012, have some new and formidable competition from Amazon’s newly announced Kindle Fire tablet. Source: All About Microsoft
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Amazon Announces Kindle Fire, Setting iPad Market Ablaze
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By Paul Thurrott Amazon announced its Android-based Kindle tablet, the Kindle Fire, on Wednesday as expected as well as two touch-based Kindle eBook readers and a low-end Kindle eBook reader without touch. But Amazon thoroughly undercut even the wildest estimates for the cost of the eagerly anticipated Kindle Fire, which will retail for just $200. Source: Win Super Site
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Samsung signs Microsoft patent licensing deal to cover Android devices
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Microsoft has signed yet another patent-protection deal with an Android phone/tablet maker. This time it’s Samsung which is paying Microsoft an undisclosed amount for licensing undisclosed patents. Source: All About Microsoft
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Windows Phone 7.5 Screenshot Gallery #2
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By Paul Thurrott My first collection of Windows Phone 7.5 screenshots exceeded the limits of our content management system, so here’s a second screenshot gallery with the remainder of shots, again courtesy of Microsoft. Source: Win Super Site
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Windows Phone 7.5 Review, Part 3: App-by-App Rundown of Other Changes
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By Paul Thurrott Beyond the big ticket items mentioned in the previous part of this review, Windows Phone 7.5 includes several hundred other smaller new features and updates. I can’t list them all here, of course, but as you move from app-to-app in Windows Phone 7.5, you’ll notice many changes and niceties. Here are some of the updates I think are most interesting. Source: Win Super Site
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Windows Phone 7.5 Review, Part 4: Conclusion
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By Paul Thurrott In addition the software itself, there’s a lot more going on around the Windows Phone 7.5 release. In this final part of my review, I’ll examine some exciting but caveat-laden additional features and services, when to expect the new software and Windows Phone 7.5-based handsets, and then provide a summary of this first major update to Microsoft’s innovative smartphone platform. Source: Win Super Site
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when installing office 2010 pro. at the end of the cycle I get a error 1907 could not register font. I am installing as the administrator with full rights. I have checked the registry properties for rights as well. still when I open one of the applications, I get the saame error. View this thread
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Microsoft has signed yet another patent-protection deal with an Android phone/tablet maker. This time it’s Samsung which is paying Microsoft an undisclosed amount for licensing undisclosed patents. Source: All About Microsoft
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Building Offline Experiences with HTML5 AppCache and IndexedDB
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Users expect their Web sites and apps to work well even when the network isn't available. With data increasingly stored in the cloud, developers want to enable fluid experiences that allow access to data when there is no connectivity when devices are disconnected from the network or when they encounter dead spots in coverage. In this post, we show how to create well-behaved offline sites and apps using the following HTML5 features: [*]AppCache to store file resources locally and access them offline as URLs [*]IndexedDB to store structured data locally so you can access and query it [*]DOM Storage to store small amounts of text information…
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Windows Phone 'Mango': One user's view of the features that matter
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Microsoft has started the rollout process for its Windows Phone Mango update for existing Windows Phone users. Here’s what I’ve liked and haven’t about Mango since I’ve been using it for the past couple months. Source: All About Microsoft
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Windows Phone 7.5 Review
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By Paul Thurrott Windows Phone 7.5 arrives today as an upgrade for existing customers and will be rolled out with new handsets in the coming weeks and months. In this multi-part review, I’ll examine Microsoft’s latest mobile OS, which I still feel is superior to the iPhone and Android competition. This is a smartphone that puts people first, and doesn’t force you to work the way it does. Source: Win Super Site
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Windows Phone 7.5 Review, Part 2: Major New Features
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By Paul Thurrott Windows Phone 7.5 consists of hundreds of new features, spread out across the system. As such, many of these changes are relatively minor, which is to be expected. But Windows Phone 7.5 does include a number of big ticket items as well. And in this second part of my Windows Phone 7.5 review, I’d like to focus on the major new features in "Mango." Source: Win Super Site
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Windows Phone 7.5 Screenshot Gallery
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By Paul Thurrott Microsoft doesn’t provide a way to capture screenshots on Windows Phone, but the software giant gave me permission to use its internally-created screenshots. So here’s a bonanza of screenshots of the just-released Windows Phone 7.5, courtesy of Microsoft. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft Announces the Availability of Windows Phone 7.5
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By Paul Thurrott Microsoft on Tuesday announced that the next version of its smart phone OS, Windows Phone, is now available and has begun shipping to customers around the world. Windows Phone 7.5 is a free update to existing customers and will appear on new hardware in the coming weeks, the company says. Source: Win Super Site
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Here Comes Windows Phone 7.5
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By Paul Thurrott Windows Phone 7.5 is now released
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Microsoft has started the rollout process for its Windows Phone Mango update for existing Windows Phone users. Here’s what I’ve liked and haven’t about Mango since I’ve been using it for the past couple months. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft readies a Facebook 'Game Theory Lab'
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Microsoft Research has launched its first Facebook game and is working on developing a more complete Facebook game-theory platform. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft sets the stage for its Windows Phone Mango rollout
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Microsoft is prepping to begin pushing out the Mango update to Windows Phone, possibly as soon as September 27. Source: All About Microsoft
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How Microsoft's Windows 8 will sync users' settings and apps
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Microsoft will be giving Windows 8 users the option to log into their PCs and tablets using their Windows Live ID. Here’s what you’ll get if you do so. Source: All About Microsoft
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Amazon Set to Unveil Kindle Tablet This Week
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By Paul Thurrott Amazon is holding a mysterious press event Wednesday in New York, but the open secret is that the online retailing giant will use the event to announce its eagerly anticipated Kindle tablet. Source: Win Super Site