Monthly Archives: January 2011

Microsoft this evening belatedly admitted that Yahoo! Mail was in fact the data leak culprit in Windows Phone, just hours after Rafael had already proven that to be the problem. Here’s the note from Microsoft, which also includes information about … Continue reading →

Update: Microsoft has confirmed this is the issue. See my newer post for more info. The reason Rafael is so valuable is because he can do stuff like this: Prove that Yahoo! Mail is the reason some people are experiencing … Continue reading →

Wait for it, wait for it… Pocketnow is reporting that Microsoft has posted a Knowledge Base article about the first Windows Phone 7 software update, suggesting the update is imminent. I hope so. But it’s not there yet. With regards … Continue reading →

Microsoft’s Greg Sullivan told Bloomberg and others today that the software giant shipped 2 million units of the Windows Phone 7 OS in the previous quarter. A little over a month ago, and about a week before the end of … Continue reading →

Rafael Rivera examines whether the feedback mechanism plays any role in the recently-reported Windows Phone 7 data usage leak. I’ve tagged this as one of a few possibilities (others include a bug that causes Wi-Fi to turn off when the … Continue reading →

I’ve received a number of emails from Larry Kuderick, who was trying to figure out why some listed app updates he had in Windows Phone Marketplace wouldn’t complete installing. But he’s found what he believes to be the answer to … Continue reading →

On a recent episode of Windows Weekly, I noted that I was considering making a table depicting all of the countries in which Windows Phone was available on one axis, and all of the possible online services on the other, … Continue reading →

Well, you gotta at least give Windows Phone some credit for keeping life interesting. A week after an LG official said that Windows Phone 7 hasn’t performed as well as expected, Deutsche Telekom says that, in Germany at least, Windows … Continue reading →

And if so, why hasn’t its PR department alerted anybody? Not newsworthy enough? Not important enough? Too busy advocating Windows Phone elsewhere, as they do day-in and day-out? OK, sorry. /sarcasm off. Responding to a direct question by the Seattle … Continue reading →