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Backstory: Building the Office Blogs app for Windows Phone
I love behind-the-scenes stories about apps, which I find helpful as I work on my first one for Windows Phone. Today Microsoft’s Craig Kerwien provides the creation story for the official Office Blogs app, which hit Marketplace last week.
Acer Aspire S3 – A Busy Life Travelling PC Companion
As readers of this blog, you know that I like to travel. Some may even say I have a wanderlust; this new spin-word is German and breaks down to exactly what it means: a lust for wandering. It’s for people who don’t just like to visit places but need to wander through them – meander, grow and learn as part of a new environment. I love my job a bit too much to give it all up for a lifetime of wandering but I try to book in all the travel I can.
2012 Small Business PC Academy Award Nominations
The nominations have been announced, the red carpet is ready to be rolled out, and the film industry is prepping for their biggest night of the year. With the biggest night of movie awards this weekend, we thought it might be fun to look at star PCs, recommended for small businesses with Windows 7 Professional, that could also be good fits for the characters in the Best Picture nominated films. Like the movies, these nine PCs all deserve the award for style and function.
The war on graymail after 90 days: Over 100 million sweeps, cleanups and newsletters filtered
Hotmail introduced advanced features for fighting the war on graymail this past fall, and since then, customers have conquered graymail over 100 million times using features like Sweep and Schedule Cleanup.
Tech Tuesday Live Twitter Chat – Hotmail #win7tech
Living in Seattle, we see a lot of gray- gray sky, gray clothes, gray weather. So, they last thing we want to have overwhelming our inboxes is graymail. For those of you who don’t know, graymail is the mail that lives between spam and personal mail. It’s the catalogues you’ve signed up for, the school PTA letters, or the coupon buster newsletter. You want to get it; you just don’t want to read it all.
New “Minute of Mango” tips series begins
Microsoft’s Channel 9 kicked off a new tips & tricks video series for Windows Phone today called “Minute of Mango” that’s fun and worth watching.
The series, hosted by the always vivacious Laura Foy, is geared toward anybody looking to save time and do more with their phones. Check out the first episode on making custom ringtones below, then make sure to subscribe or share the series with friends or family. Trust me, they’ll thank you. Laura plans to broadcast 3 new tips a week for the next 10 weeks.
Best Buy Has a Hot New Offer
Have you ever had to switch data from an old to a new PC? It’s time consuming, often frustrating and can take all the fun out of having a brand new PC to play with. Luckily I have a smart friend who switches my files for me. If you aren’t graced with a bona-fide tech genius in your midst, you’re in luck. You have Best Buy and the Geek Squad.
SkyDrive and Windows 8
Mike Torres and I just shared a post and video on the Building Windows 8 blog that details a key step we are taking with Windows 8 towards our vision of personal cloud storage. The post describes how we plan to scale our services to billions of p
Working the Microsoft Booth at CES
Greetings from Microsoft’s campus here in Redmond, WA. My name is Leigha Anderson and this is my first blog post on the Windows Experience Blog. Here Microsoft, I work on the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturers) Product Marketing Team where I look after anything relating to Small and Medium Business. I joined Microsoft in July fresh out of college and I am so excited about the opportunity to share my experiences at Microsoft and provide some personal insight about being young and working in the crazy world of technology.
Come fiesta with us at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
Here’s your chance to mingle with some Windows Phone big wigs, pepper us with questions, and try out our phones.
Find My Champ
What do you think of when you hear the word “Champ”? Someone who is the best? A sports champion? How about someone who fights for a cause? Here at Microsoft we have employees called “Developer Evangelists”. Part of their job is to help get the word out about Microsoft products and technologies. The other part of their job is to champion our developers.
Windows 7 themes: festivity, silliness… and serenity
Here comes Fat Tuesday! It’s time to set a party mood with the new Masquerade theme, which features elegant and mysterious masks for celebrating Mardi Gras and Carnival.
Redesigning the Windows Logo
We have said that Windows 8 is a complete reimagination of the Windows operating system. Nothing has been left unexplored, including the Windows logo, to evaluate how it held up to modern PC sensibilities. The Windows logo is a strong and widely recognized mark but when we stepped back and analyzed it, we realized an evolution of our logo would better reflect our Metro style design principles and we also felt there was an opportunity to reconnect with some of the powerful characteristics of previous incarnations.
Browse Without Being Browsed
Privacy is in the news again today. Apparently, Google has been able to track users of Apple’s Safari browser while they surf the web on their Apple iPhones, iPads and Macs. This type of tracking by Google is not new. The novelty here is that Google apparently circu
Nokia Lumia 800 Entertainment Bundle hits the Microsoft Store
Looking to set yourself apart from the crowd? You can now get your hands on the stylish Nokia Lumia 800 Entertainment Bundle, available exclusively from Microsoft Stores, a bit ahead of its official Feb. 26 launch date. Just flag down a store rep and tell them to pull one for you from the back. Find a store near you.
Our Valentine’s Day contest results
A big thanks to everyone who participated in our Valentine’s Day contest and shared their love for Windows Phone on Twitter with the #ILoveWindowsPhone and #DumpingMyDroid hashtags. I saw tons of fun (and funny) responses.
Here are our two winners, chosen at random:
How do I love thee? Let me spell the ways.
You might not expect the creator of an app like Shoot Shag Marry to be much of a
Now in Marketplace: An improved Facebook app
App updates are always welcome events. But when the app is Facebook, it’s news.
I’m happy to report that version 2.3 of the official Facebook app just showed up in Marketplace, and it features many noteworthy tweaks and upgrades.
You’ll find changes across the board: Improved panorama and profile designs, better news feed performance and navigation, new filters, and much much more.
Happy Valentine’s Day from the IE team
In honor of the holiday, our engineering team decided to riff on our “Let it Snow…Faster” demo and create a Valentine’s Day version. You can read more about it here or see it for yourself. Enjoy!
Ben E. Keith Gets Rugged with Windows 7
Ben E. Keith is one of the largest beer wholesalers in the nation and the world’s second largest distributor of Anheuser-Busch products, selling more than 38 million cases of beer a year. They have always been a technology leader and strived to give their sales reps the best tools to sell and distribute more beer. As the company has continued to grow over the years, the pocket-type devices that sales reps previously used to take and send orders into the warehouse became outdated.
