A few observations on Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”

By tim, on September 28th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I received a Windows Phone running version 7.5 “Mango” for review yesterday. Here are some initial observations; I am not going to call it a review after such as short time.

There is still no screen capture utility – well, there is this one but it requires a developer accounts. So no screens, sorry.

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September 28th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: apple, cloud computing, iphone, microsoft, mobile, professional, windows | 2 comments

The Adobe Flash and Windows Phone 7 mystery

By tim, on September 27th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I attended Microsoft’s Mix event in March 2010, where Microsoft gave us the first detailed preview of Windows Phone 7 from the developer perspective. At that time, Microsoft made it clear that the Adobe Flash plug-in would not be supported in the first release, but implied that it would follow.

Did Microsoft ever announce

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September 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: adobe, flash, microsoft, mobile | 2 comments

Windows Phone at Mix 2011: what Microsoft said and did not say

By tim, on April 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore (phone VP) and Scott Guthrie (developer VP) took the stage at the Mix 2011 conference in Las Vegas to tell us what is new with Windows Phone.

The opening part of the keynote was significant. Belfiore spent some time talking about the “update situation”.

This is all to do

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April 14th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: .net, microsoft, mobile, nokia, professional, silverlight, software development, visual studio, windows | Leave a comment