Windows Phone 7.5: Microsoft's Overachieving Underdog

Release Date ‎Nov 24, 2011‎ in TIME

 
   

Microsoft: We've Had Siri-Like Tech for More Than a Year

PC Magazine - 25 Nov, 2011
Is Microsoft jealous of Siri? No, according to chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie, because Microsoft has had its own version of Siri available for over a year. In an interview with Forbes tech writer Eric Savitz ...

Siri: Your wish is its command

Hindustan Times - 25 Nov, 2011
Siri, the all-understanding-sometimes-reprimanding personal digital assistant is definitely the star performer and the major reason for any sale of the iPhone 4S. If you grew up in the eighties and nineties like me, almost all your science fiction is a ...

What's Craig Mundie Been Smoking?

Forbes - 25 Nov, 2011
You had Siri's technological capability already? The only thing you can learn from Apple is marketing? You've had Siri for a year because you can speak your search query to Bing? Every stereotype you've ever had about Microsoft just came true when you ...

Windows smartphones a joy to use

USA Today - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎
When buying a new smartphone â€" or adding one to a holiday gift list â€" there's just one question: iPhone or Android? Models pose with the HTC Titan and Radar. Models pose with the HTC Titan and Radar. ...

Windows Phone 7.5: Microsoft's Overachieving Underdog

TIME - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎
The new update to this inventive mobile operating system is a real alternative to the iPhone and Android. By Harry McCracken | @harrymccracken | November 24, 2011 | + Once upon a time, the name “Windows” stood for something. Several things, actually. ...

After a month, Siri finds her voice

Computerworld (blog) - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎
By Michael deAgonia Computerworld - After a month of using Siri, the new voice-controlled "personal assistant" available on the iPhone 4S, I've decided it may be time to add voice control to the list of paradigm-shifting ways to interact with a ...

Android vs. iPhone vs. Windows Phone: Pick your smartphone OS

CNET - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
With a rush of amazing Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, this is a great time to buy a new phone for you or for someone else. There are excellent phones flooding the market (here ...

Microsoft's Craig Mundie: The Smart Phone Battle Is Just Starting (Video)

Forbes - ‎Nov 22, 2011‎
Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie thinks the global battler for smart phone supremacy is just getting off the ground. Mundie made the remarks in an interview last week at the Techonomy conference in Tucson. ...

Microsoft's Craig Mundie On Siri: Been There, Done That (Video)

Forbes - ‎Nov 22, 2011‎
Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie isn't nearly as impressed with Siri, the voice recognition interface for the Apple iPhone 4S, as a lot of other people. Mundie, in fact, contends that Apple has been stressing that feature on ...

Craig Mundie: What's Next For Kinect

Forbes.com - ‎Nov 22, 2011‎
Microsoft's Chief Strategy And Research Officer on the company's planned expansion of the company's new user interface.

Craig Mundie: Microsoft's Essential Mobile Strategy

Forbes.com - ‎Nov 22, 2011‎
Chief Strategy And Research Officer on where the company's taken its eye off the ball.

Microsoft: That Siri feature on the iPhone? Yeah, we've done it before

uSwitch.com (Tech) - 25 Nov, 2011
Microsoft has dismissed that Apple's claims that its Siri voice-guided personal assistant for the recently launched iPhone 4S is a new phenomenon, stating it already had similar tech on board its Windows Phone OS for over a year. ...

Free HTC Radar 4G, Trophy and Arrive offered by Microsoft

IntoMobile - 25 Nov, 2011
Apple can't be the only tech giant with great deals for Black Friday. Microsoft is joining the craze, offering three Windows Phone devices for free (with a two-year carrier contract) at their online store. Smartphones included in this special offer, ...

Microsoft exec: Windows Phone has had Siri capability for over a year

Examiner.com - 25 Nov, 2011
Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie is the latest executive at a rival of Apple's to put forth with what appears to be some sour grapes with regard to Apple'e Siri functionality. Speaking in an interview with Forbes at the ...

Windows 8 Might Come With Siri-Like Voice Recognition And Interaction

Windows 8 Beta - 25 Nov, 2011
Microsoft's Chief Research & Strategy officer Craig Mundie spoke to the Forbes magazine recently and stated that Siri â€" Apple's new voice activated digital assistant â€" is nothing new. Microsoft has been doing it for over a year now. ...

HTC Radar Still Offers Excellent Features

Planet Insane - 25 Nov, 2011
Although the specifications found on the HTC Radar 4G seemed outmoded, the device features a solid design, reasonable price and the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). The HTC Radar will be the second smartphone using Windows Phone 7 on ...

Amazon Kindle Fire: 10 things to do first

T3 - 25 Nov, 2011
On sale in the US now but will it be worth the wait for the UK? Designer, tough, solar powered and more. We've got your iPhone covered It's the Android-smartphone showdown. Who do you have your money on? Apple could well be launching their own HDTV as ...

Microsoft claims to have had a Siri-like application for more than a year

Online News Today - 25 Nov, 2011
According 9to5Mac, Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, claims the Redmond software giant has had Siri-like capabilities in its Windows Phone 7 platform for more than a year. He adds that Siri has been making waves in the ...

Microsoft Claims iPhone 4S Siri is Nothing New

ITProPortal - 25 Nov, 2011
Microsoft has claimed that its Windows Phone 7 platform has had Siri like capabilities for over a year. Apple launched the iPhone 4S with a new feature called Siri, which is a voice controlled virtual assistant, which allows users to compose and send ...

Microsoft: Siri's Doing What Windows Phone 7 Already Does, But With Better ...

Gizmodo UK - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎
Microsoft is a little sad and angry about all the publicity Apple's Siri app has been getting, because Windows Phone 7 has been doing the same sort of thing since launch. In a way. The claim comes from Microsoft's chief strategy and research officer ...

Apple iPhone vs. Android vs. Windows; which should you choose

Boosh Articles (press release) - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎
There are so many Smartphone's on the market these days that you might be wondering what you should choose. A couple of years ago when the iPhone was just being released, it was the most amazing phone that the world had ever seen and everyone wanted to ...

How to get Siri onto your Android device

InfoWorld - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎
Although I'm happy with my Samsung Galaxy S II Android phone, I've also got a bad case of Siri envy. I, too, would like a "personal assistant" that responds to natural language requests such as "Move my meeting from 3 ...

Microsoft had Siri for a year

TechEye - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎
Apple fans have been incandescent with rage after Microsoft's chief strategy and research officer Craig Mundie dared to say that nothing is new in Apple's Siri software. Mundi said that Microsoft users have had it for more than a year since Windows ...

Windows Phones already had iPhone 4S Siri-like features

Only Kent - ‎Nov 24, 2011‎
There had been much speculation as to what the new smartphone from Apple would look like, as we pretty much knew the hardware. You can imagine how surprised we were when the iPhone 4S was introduced, as it looked the same as the previous model. ...

In which, I use Siri to create in-app third party commands while taking a ...

tuaw.com - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
Earlier today, I had a brainstorm. Maybe I was just overthinking the whole custom Siri thing for third party apps. I didn't want to install a proxy server or jailbreak my iPhone. ...

Microsoft Officer: Apple's Siri Not the First of Its Kind

Experts Exchange (blog) - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
After putting up with almost two months of constant clamor over Apple's voice technology program Siri, which it introduced as a new feature of the iPhone 4S, Microsoft's Craig Mundie decided that he couldn't take it anymore. ...

Microsoft Says That Windows Phone Had Siri Before The iPhone

Cult of Mac - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
In a recent interview with Forbes, Microsoft's chief strategy and research officer, Craig Mundie, sat down to talk about the future of the “Kinect effect” and other aspects of the company's business. ...

Microsoft says Windows Phones have had Siri-like functionality for over a year

Apple Insider - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
Microsoft's Craig Mundie said that the iPhone's Siri voice recognition software is not new technology as a similar system has been available on the Windows Phone for over a year, and claims Apple marketed the capability to shift focus ...

Microsoft thinks Windows Phone has Siri's functionality covered

Geek.com - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
Whether you're a fan of Siri or not, few of us would claim that any non-Apple platform has anything quite like it. The Android loyal will correctly point out that their OS has had voice commands and dictation for ages, but even the most hardcore fanboy ...

Microsoft's Craig Mundie: Siri is unimpressive and a year late

The Next Web (blog) - ‎Nov 23, 2011‎
In an interview with Forbes at the Techonomoy conference, Microsoft's Craig Mundie, the firm's Chief Research and Strategy Officer, had some harsh words for Apple's popular Siri feature in its newest phone, the iPhone 4S. After vamping on the runaway ...

 

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