Monthly Archives: February 2011

There’s an interesting article, Moonlighting Within Microsoft, in Pursuit of New Apps, in the New York Times today. The premise is that Microsoft is allowing, even encouraging, its employees to moonlight (i.e. work in their own time) on Windows Phone … Continue reading →

In line with this blog’s previous user-based contribution to the Windows Phone community (the discovery of the infamous Windows Phone 3G data leak), I’d like to see how many of you are experiencing the following contacts-related issues, about which I’ve … Continue reading →

Sprint announced the HTC Arrive this week. You’d perhaps think that Microsoft’s Windows Phone PR team would have sent out some email announcement about this or something, but they didn’t. Which is weird, because I think this is a big … Continue reading →

Well, I can see Microsoft’s first (sort of) update for Windows Phone is off to a wonderful start. In the wake of several reports of what I’m calling the “pre-update” fouling up some phones–what some people are describing as “bricking” … Continue reading →

Sometime in the next two weeks, Microsoft will deliver its first Windows Phone update, codenamed “NoDonuts” (or just “NoDo”). But today, Microsoft began rolling out a sort of pre-update, if you will, that updates the phone’s updating mechanism so that … Continue reading →

Last August, I wrote about my experiences using a prototype Windows Phone in Germany in An American Windows Phone in Europe. This week, my family is visiting Madrid, Spain on vacation, which explains the quiet around here lately. But it’s … Continue reading →

As expected, Microsoft has fulfilled a few of my wishes for the day. :) Here’s the message I just received: Today in a keynote at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced several new features and capabilities … Continue reading →

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and various representatives of the Windows Phone team will be presenting a keynote address today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. You may recall that Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 at this show a year … Continue reading →

I’ve posted a lengthy examination of the Nokia Windows Phone announcement on the SuperSite for Windows that should be of interest. My conclusion works out to: This is a win for Microsoft and its new smart phone platform. It picks … Continue reading →