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New official wallpapers for your Windows Phone
- Mon, 21 May 2012
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Our fans have created some fantastic Windows Phone wallpapers over the years. Today we’re unveiling a new nature series from Windows Phone fan and London-based graphic designer Levi Freeman.
What’s unique about these is that they’re the first to carry our design team’s official seal of approval. We also hope they’re the first of many collaboration efforts with artists to come.
Visit Levi’s site to grab the entire set of eight for your lock...
The Wrap: The Focus 2 arrives, “Dear Windows Phone,” new 99 cent Xbox games
- Fri, 18 May 2012
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Here are my favorite Windows Phone highlights of the week. What about you?
The Samsung Focus 2 arrives on Sunday
Heads up that the Samsung Focus 2 makes its AT&T debut this weekend. With a $50 price tag, solid spec sheet, and 4G LTE network support—not to mention classy looks—I’m betting Samsung has another Windows Phone winner on its hands. The critics agree. CNET’s Jessica Dolcourt reviewed the phone this week and...
Students - Buy a PC, get an Xbox 360! #GetAnXbox
- Fri, 18 May 2012
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The school year is wrapping up for many but for those who are graduating high school - thoughts are already on the upcoming school year this fall and starting college. Starting college can be a big adjustment and we’d like to help with that. Starting May 20th in the U.S., students who buy a qualifying Windows PC worth $699 or more at participating retailers can get a 4GB Xbox 360 console for free, just like last year! Starting May 18th in...
Have you updated to Windows Phone 7.5?
- Thu, 17 May 2012
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For the past few weeks I’ve been mentioning that you’ll soon need Windows Phone 7.5 installed on your phone to buy, download, or update apps from Marketplace. (This applies to both the phone and web storefronts, by the way.)
We’re now doing the final work needed to turn on this new requirement, so I thought it would be a good time for another friendly reminder. If you’re just tuning in, my earlier post has all the details on why we’re doing t...
Shorter, more useful links with SDRV.MS
- Thu, 17 May 2012
SOFTWARE Windows Blogs
If you’re like most people, when you share files via SkyDrive you typically do so directly via email. This is one reason we built the connected address book, bringing together your friends’ addresses across Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn. Another benefit: when you share photos via email, your friends get a beautiful email with thumbnail previews.
Back in December, we added another way to share. You can get a link to any file or folder on...
Using a VPN to protect your web use | Ask Jack
- Thu, 17 May 2012
SOFTWARE Windows Blogs
Dave Null is looking for a good free VPN (virtual private network) to ensure his privacy while using open Wi-Fi hotspots
Lots of us surf using unsecured Wi-Fi networks, and where I live in the US, Starbucks doesn't require a pass code and the Wi-Fi is up 24/7 regardless of whether the shop is open. Are there any good free VPNs for privacy in such a situation? I'm using Cocoon with Firefox, but I don't have the means to compare it with...
Listbox, Why Art Thou Blanking?
- Wed, 16 May 2012
SOFTWARE Windows Blogs
One of the biggest performance changes for developers using Silverlight in Mango (WP 7.5) is off-thread input for ListBox. In a nutshell this basically means that all any flick or pan a user makes on a ListBox is handled by a dedicated thread, the Direct Manipulation (DM) thread, instead of the UI thread. By connecting the DM thread to the Compositor thread (that’s the one that does all the drawing to the screen independent of the UI thread) we h...
Now Recruiting for Weyland Industries: Internet Explorer Partners with Fox for “Prometheus” Movie
- Wed, 16 May 2012
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NOW HIRING. In preparation for the upcoming film Prometheus (in theaters on June 8), Weyland Industries is accepting applicants to join the crew of the Project Prometheus spaceship. Today, the Internet Explorer team is proud to announce our partnership with Fox Studios to create the Project Prometheus Training Center — designed entirely in HTML5 — giving fans the chance to demonstrate they are capable of being a crew member on the Prometheus shi...
Windows Phone designer is named one of country’s most creative
- Wed, 16 May 2012
SOFTWARE Windows Blogs
The June issue of Fast Company carries the magazine’s latest picks for its annual 100 Most Creative People in Business, which celebrates “innovators who dare to think differently.” This year one of our own made the coveted list: Windows Phone designer Jeff Fong. Check out his write-up.
Fong, 43, joined the Windows Phone design team three years ago and has been one of the leading thinkers behind Windows Phone’s signature...
Look What is New With Lenovo: Introducing the Latest Laptops in the ThinkPad Line
- Tue, 15 May 2012
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Today, Lenovo is announcing updates to their line of laptops that are built to handle all the work that you can throw at them. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a leader in the business category of Ultrabooks and the ThinkPad Classic L, X, T, and W Series laptops have all had refreshes that build upon the performance, great battery life, and productivity that Lenovo’s laptops are known for.
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon weighs less than three pounds and beats...