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Supersite Turning my attention to the more pragmatic issues of missing and incomplete features in Windows Phone 7, I present the first app pick that is designed to overcome one of these limitations: The ability to find, download, sync, and enjoy podcasts, over-the-air, from your handset. And this week's pick, BringCast, is a great solution for doing just that. ... View the full article

Supersite Turning my attention to the more pragmatic issues of missing and incomplete features in Windows Phone 7, I present the first app pick that is designed to overcome one of these limitations: The ability to find, download, sync, and enjoy podcasts, over-the-air, from your handset. And this week's pick, BringCast, is a great solution for doing just that. ... View the full article

Supersite In the first of what will be a long series of co-posts unveiling specific new Windows 8 features, Rafael Rivera and I present the new Windows 8 Welcome screen. ... View the full article

Supersite In the first of what will be a long series of co-posts unveiling specific new Windows 8 features, Rafael Rivera and I present the new Windows 8 Welcome screen. ... View the full article

Supersite In the first of what will be a long series of co-posts unveiling specific new Windows 8 features, Rafael Rivera and I present the new Windows 8 Welcome screen. ... View the full article

Supersite In the first of what will be a long series of co-posts unveiling specific new Windows 8 features, Rafael Rivera and I present the new Windows 8 Welcome screen. ... View the full article

Supersite Ribbon usage is accelerating again in Windows 8, with Microsoft's next major OS including this UI in the most visible of all possible places, Windows Explorer. In early builds of Windows 8, this Ribbon UI is only half-finished, however, and it's unclear at this time how it will eventually look. ... View the full article

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Supersite Ribbon usage is accelerating again in Windows 8, with Microsoft's next major OS including this UI in the most visible of all possible places, Windows Explorer. In early builds of Windows 8, this Ribbon UI is only half-finished, however, and it's unclear at this time how it will eventually look. ... View the full article

Supersite In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss Microsoft's antitrust complaint against Google, Windows Phone 7 software updates in the wild and how you can get yours now, Windows Phone 7 predicted to beat iPhone by 2015, Paul Allen writes a tell-all book and blasts Bill Gates for greed, Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, and a call for information from IT pros about the consumerization of IT in their businesses. ... View the full article

Supersite Turning my attention to the more pragmatic issues of missing and incomplete features in Windows Phone 7, I present the first app pick that is designed to overcome one of these limitations: The ability to find, download, sync, and enjoy podcasts, over-the-air, from your handset. And this week's pick, BringCast, is a great solution for doing just that. ... View the full article

The March edition of my free Microsoft Codetracker is done and ready for download. This month includes “Broadway,” among other new Microsoft codenames. View the full article

Supersite In the first of what will be a long series of co-posts unveiling specific new Windows 8 features, Rafael Rivera and I present the new Windows 8 Welcome screen. ... View the full article

Supersite LogMeIn lets you remotely control a PC, similar to the Remote Desktop Connection (software included in Windows. And with the LogMeIn Ignition mobile client for iPad, iPhone (and iPod touch), and Google Android, you can access your Windows desktop, and its files, while on the go. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including ex-employees weighing in on Microsoft, Craig Mundie's controversial but not-so-crazy comments about the iPad and the future of mobile computing, IE 9 usage with Windows 7 users and the renewed browser wars, third party developers are at fault for most security vulnerabilities now, Windows Phone 7 not resonating with users, but is resonating with developers, and we don't need a crisis expert to know that Microsoft bungled WP7. ... View the full article

I love IE9. Much faster than IE8 was for me and all the websites render as they should. Full css3 support is great.

Supersite Amazon Cloud Drive is a new consumer-focused cloud storage service that is particularly well-suited, for now, to storing digital music. And when combined with the associated Cloud Player, Amazon is providing a near-complete replacement for iTunes and Windows Media Player. ... View the full article

Microsoft is filing its first ever official antitrust complaint on March 31. Not too surprisingly, it’s against Google. More surprisingly, Microsoft’s chosen the European Union antitrust courts — which have proven more foe than friend to Redmond — as the venue for the action. View the full article

Windows IT Pro Microsoft today will formally launch an antitrust complaint against Google in Europe, alleging that the Internet giant has worked unfairly and illegally to prevent competition in online search. ... View the full article

Who is bringing the NFC technology to Windows Phone? How/when will it be rolled out? So many questions, so few answers…. View the full article

Mich Matthews, a 22-year Microsoft veteran and head of the company’s Central Marketing Group, is leaving the company this summer. View the full article

In the past few days, rumors of a possible leak of one of the newer Windows 8 internal builds have been gaining steam. View the full article

Microsoft will begin pushing Internet Explorer (IE) 9 to users in earnest starting at the end of June 2011, using its Windows Update mechanism, officials said this week. View the full article