Windows Phone launch was a dud in the US â€" Is Nokia worried?

Release Date ‎Apr 12, 2011‎ in FierceWireless

 
   

Snarky accusations about Microsoft's app store for Windows 8 copying Apple's ...

Dallas Morning News (blog) - Victor Godinez - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
"J'accuse!!!," cried the Apple fanboys, sneering at what they perceived to be the latest example of Microsoft's shameless theft of Apple's ideas. Before Apple introduced its Mac app store last year, it was already widely rumored that Microsoft was ...

Sneak peek: Is this Windows 8 App Store?

msnbc.com - Todd Bishop - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Microsoft's early planning documents for Windows 8, the next version of the PC operating system, suggested that the company was creating its own Windows App Store â€" a central place to find, buy, download, update and manage software. ...

Nokia Releases Two New Symbian Phones

Barron's (blog) - Miriam Gottfried - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Nokia (NOK) said Tuesday it is releasing two new smartphones, which will operate on an updated version of its Symbian operating system. The announcement follows an agreement between Nokia and Microsoft (MSFT) in which the Finnish ...

Nokia Board Bets on Windows Phone Success

infoSync World - Sindre Lia - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
The Nokia board bets on Windows Phone success. Will HTC and Samsung have any sleepless nights moving forward? As competitors are expanding their mobile experience to capacitive tablets and HDTVs, Nokia has decided ...

Windows App Store Screenshots Surface

Techtree.com - Samir Makwana - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Microsoft had an objection to Apple's trademark of the words App Store and claimed that the term was too generic. Soon after that, Apple released Mac OS X platform based Mac App Store which provides digital downloads of all free as well as paid ...

Boot up: Android activations rocket to 350000 smartphones a day, and more

The Guardian (blog) - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
"Just a year and a half ago, t[Gartner] made similar bold predictions about the smartphone industry that suggested the same dramatic turn around for Microsoft. In fact, the only real similarity between the company's 2009 predictions and its 2011 ...

Leaked Shots Of Rumored Microsoft 'Windows App Store' Surface

PC Magazine - Damon Poeter - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
Leaked screenshots of what could be a "Windows App Store" from Microsoft had tech wags chortling Monday over supposed similarities to Apple's Mac App Store which launched in January. Microsoft is reportedly planning an online store for ...

First Look at New Windows App Store Via Leaked Screenshots

PCWorld - Lisa Greim - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
A leaked set of screenshots gives us the first look at the Windows App Store being integrated into Windows 8. Leaked screenshot of Windows App StoreThe screenshots posted Monday (in Chinese) by CNBeta.com ...

Is This the Windows 8 App Store?

TIME - Jared Newman - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
Rumors of a Windows 8 app store have resurfaced, with a website posting what it claims are leaked screenshots. The screenshots, posted by Chinese-language website CNBeta, show a store that looks awfully similar to the ...

No, Microsoft didn't rush IE 9 into Windows Update

ZDNet (blog) - Ed Bott - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
Did Microsoft really rush Internet Explorer 9 into Windows Update in a desperate move to catch up with Firefox? Nope. The release schedule and rollout strategy are just like IE 8 and IE 7. ...

Microsoft To Woo Windows Phone 7 Developers

InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
Redmond executives will make the case for their nascent smartphone OS at MIX 11 conference this week in Las Vegas. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Microsoft this week will attempt to convince software developers that it's worth their time and effort ...

More Windows 8 leaks: Windows App Store screenshots

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
As previously reported, Microsoft seems to be taking a page from Apple's playbook and building an application store into the next version of Windows. Today, we've got some purported screenshots of the Windows App Store, from Taiwanese news forum cnBeta ...

Microsoft Warns Against Windows Phone Update Shortcuts

InformationWeek - Ed Hansberry - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
You can see that the AT&T's phones, the Surround, Quantum, and Focus, are still in the testing phase. Internationally, Spain's Telefonica still has their phones in testing and most of Deutsche Telekom is also in testing. ...

MIX11: Microsoft hosts Windows Phone 7 developers in Vegas

The Seattle Times - Sharon Chan - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
This story ran in the print edition of The Seattle Times on April 11, 2011. -Sharon Pian Chan Microsoft is the mobile world's child with lots of unrealized potential. Its smartphone software has only a sliver of the market, after the company redesigned ...

Microsoft's Windows App Store Revealed In Leaked Screenshots (MSFT)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
Microsoft is planning to build an app store into Windows, according to leaked screenshots on a Taiwanese online news forum. A Microsoft spokesperson refused to comment on the screenshots, and said the company has nothing to share about future versions ...

Microsoft Pulls Chevron Windows Phone 7 Updater Ahead of Mix11

PC Magazine - Sara Yin - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
As Microsoft prepares to court developers this week at the Mix11 developers' conference in Las Vegas, the company has convinced the team behind the popular homebrew ChevronWP7 updater to disable its application. ChevronWP7. ...

IE9: Microsoft is back in the browser game

CNET - Stephen Shankland - ‎Apr 11, 2011‎
After a three-week IE9 immersion, I've concluded that Microsoft once again has a competitive Web browser. And even though Internet Explorer remains the most-used browser on the Net today, convincing me that Internet Explorer 9 is a ...

Gartner's Smartphone Forecast Attacked

msnbc.com - Kurt Bakke - ‎Apr 10, 2011‎
It really was a matter of time until someone would question the value of market forecasts that aim to predict the shipment volume of a product segment that has not left its disruptive phase yet and is likely to change ...

No More Microsoft Stores, Thanks

PCWorld - Harry McCracken - ‎Apr 9, 2011‎
5 reasons why Microsoft shouldn't copy Apple's retail model with (more of) its own brick-and-mortar outlets. By Harry McCracken, Technologizer Microsoft StoreAgreeing with me is not a prerequisite for Technologizer contributors. ...

App store in works for Windows?

SmartCompany.com.au - Madeleine Heffernan - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Window's new operating system could contain an app store, simply titled Windows App Store, according to screen shots from Chinese site cnBeta. Engadget says there's talk the new store has passed internal tests and will soon go beta. ...

Windows App Store Could Counter Apple's Mac App Store

eWeek - Nicholas Kolakowski - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Microsoft could be prepping a Windows App Store, according to purported leaked screenshots, which would directly counter Apple's Mac App Store. Microsoft's next version of Windows could include an applications storefront similar to the one already ...

Windows App Store screenshots leaked

The Loop - Jim Dalrymple - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
It's hard to keep secrets these days. The design of Microsoft's new Windows App Store is the latest project to be leaked on the Web. TechCrunch posted supposed screenshots of the company's Windows App Store ...

Windows 8 app shop screenshots appear

TechEye - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Early screenshots of what is being reported as Microsoft's Windows App Store, for Windows 8, have appeared online and they are truly underwhelming. If the shots are to be believed, and we stress that perhaps they shouldn't, Redmond has plumped for the ...

Nokia pushes ahead with Symbian, but uncertainty remains

FierceWireless - Phil Goldstein - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Nokia (NYSE:NOK) touted its commitment to the Symbian platform with two new smartphone announcements and a software refresh, even as it braces for a market share decline as its shifts to Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone 7 as its primary ...

The Missing Windows 7 Fear Factor

IT Business Edge (blog) - Michael Vizard - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
By date: Try as Microsoft and its PC manufacturing partners might, they are having a tough time scaring IT organizations to wholesale upgrades to Windows 7. Even with threats of cutting off support, most IT organizations remain largely unmoved. ...

Windows Phone launch was a dud in the US â€" Is Nokia worried?

FierceWireless - Mike Dano - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
The latest numbers from research firm comScore show that Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone launch late last year in the US market was largely a non-event. This raises the obvious question: Does Nokia (NYSE:NOK) know about this? ...

Enterprises That Say 'No' to Windows 7 Migration

Redmondmag.com (blog) - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Analyst firm Gartner has been telling IT pros for a while now that they have to migrate to Windows 7, and the "danger zone" for getting that done will be 2013. It can take a year or more to get ready, and organizations will start feeling the pressure ...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone 7 Spec Change?

eMoneyDaily - Dallas Rayner - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
WinRumors has reported that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) may announce new low-end Windows Phone 7 specifications. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone 7 Spec Change? According to a report that appeared in WinRumors, ...

Microsofts Bringing Windows 8 with an App Store

Tech2 - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Windows 8 screenshots are out and they seem to show a reason we're going to have another lawsuit soon. Windows 8 seems to come with a built in App Store. The lawsuit's most likely going to be between them and the on going suit with Apple and Amazon ...

Windows 8 App Store screenshots leak

Geek.com - Matthew Humphries - ‎Apr 12, 2011‎
Apple has made the app store both a popular way to shop and something users now expect to have access to on a new device. Google has followed by creating the Android Market, and Amazon has its own app store for Android. Even Ubuntu has a Software ...

 

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