A Month in Review: Windows Phone 7 Series

Release Date 18 Mar, 2010 in SBIndependent

 

April Fools a little early: Windows Phone 7 Series will have copy and paste

ZDNet (blog) - Joel Evans - 18 Mar, 2010
I was going to cover the rumors earlier that had surfaced that were stating that Windows Phone 7 Series wouldn't have copy and paste, but they just seemed ...

MIX10: What developers are saying about Microsoft

Seattle Times - Sharon Chan - 18 Mar, 2010
LAS VEGAS -- The MIX conference for Web developers wrapped up Wednesday afternoon but here is what a random sampling of attendees had to say about Microsoft ...

MIX10: How to make money with Windows Phone from Microsoft

Seattle Times - Sharon Chan - 18 Mar, 2010
LAS VEGAS -- Todd Brix, senior director of mbile platform product management at Microsoft, sat down Monday to answer some questions about how Microsoft and ...

The Windows Phone 7 app platform: One slide says it all

ZDNet (blog) - Mary Jo Foley - 18 Mar, 2010
There's been a lot of new (and sometimes conflicting/confusing) information shared this week about Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform at the Microsoft Mix ...

Windows Phone stars at Mix

CNET - Ina Fried - 18 Mar, 2010
reporter's notebook LAS VEGAS--Microsoft's Clint Rutkas was sent a rather intriguing e-mail a couple weeks back. ...

Hands On: the T-Mobile HTC HD2

PC Magazine - Sean Ludwig - 18 Mar, 2010
Much has been written about the HTC HD2, which looks to be the best Windows Mobile 6.5 device ever conceived based on its specs alone. ...

No copy and paste, multitasking for Windows Phone 7 Series

Independent - 18 Mar, 2010
The latest generation of Microsoft's mobile phone operating system will not have a copy-and-paste function. Nor will it be able to multitask. ...

Microsoft Displayed Modded Omnia HD at MIX10

Techtree.com - 18 Mar, 2010
We are sure you might have seen the Samsung Omnia HD lookalike running Windows Phone 7 at yesterday s MIX10 conference. A day later, Samsung has confirmed ...

T-Mobile HD2, CLIQ XT Get Prices, Ship Dates

PC Magazine - Jamie Lendino - 18 Mar, 2010
First, T-Mobile has announced a price and release date for the long-awaited, Windows Mobile 6.5-powered HTC HD2 (pictured): March 24th, ...

Windows Phone 7: Too Much Like the iPhone?

PC World - Ian Paul - 18 Mar, 2010
Windows Phone 7 Series will not come with cut-and-paste functionality, according to a wide number of reports citing information Microsoft reportedly ...

Windows Phone 7 Gets Developer Tools

InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - 18 Mar, 2010
Microsoft has modified familiar packages like Visual Studio for use with its new mobile device platform. By Paul McDougall Microsoft unveiled a number of ...

Microsoft to Trim Cut and Paste in Win ...

PC Magazine - Jamie Lendino - 18 Mar, 2010
It took Apple over two years to finally add copy and paste to the iPhone line, a feature that Microsoft (among others) has offered forever ...

No cut/copy/paste for Windows Phone 7

Baltimore Sun (blog) - 18 Mar, 2010
iPhone users moaned for a long time that their phones didn't have that feature, until OS 3.0 last year. Bringing cut/copy/paste to the iPhone was seen as ...

No copy and paste for WinMo7

Xinhua - Rob Welham - 18 Mar, 2010
BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Copy-and-paste functionality, a fixture in modern computing, will not be incorporated into Microsoft's mobile ...

Microsoft "photocopies" missing iPhone Cut/Copy/Paste feature

ZDNet (blog) - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - 18 Mar, 2010
Following in the footsteps of the iPhone, it seems that Windows Phone 7 OS won't be support Cut/Copy/Paste. We just super-double-ultra-plus-confirmed this ...

Microsoft cuts out paste

Register - Bill Ray - 18 Mar, 2010
Windows Phone 7 Series won't be able to cut and paste, as Microsoft continues to create something with all the ...

Why Microsoft Is The New Apple

InformationWeek (blog) - Eric Zeman - 18 Mar, 2010
Earlier this year, Microsoft whipped up a lot of excitement over Windows Phone 7 with its splashy launch at the Mobile World Congress trade show in ...

Windows Phone OS will not have cut and paste

Inquirer - Nick Farrell - 18 Mar, 2010
WHILE MICROSOFT'S Windows Phone 7 Series is being touted as the best thing since sliced bread, reviewers are starting to find holes in it. ...

Is this rocket science? Tech giants struggle with copy and paste

ZDNet (blog) - Tom Foremski - 18 Mar, 2010
When I first got my iPhone which was on the day it was released, I was surprised that I couldn't search its contents, but I was even more surprised when I ...

No Copy And Paste For Windows Phone 7

InformationWeek (blog) - Ed Hansberry - ‎Mar 16, 2010‎
Engadget posted the info from the Q&A session where Microsoft revealed this key feature was missing. As the article points out, Windows Mobile has had a ...

HTC, T-Mobile Mum on Windows Phone 7 Plans for HD2

PC World - ‎Mar 16, 2010‎
Phone maker HTC and wireless carrier T-Mobile announced the highly anticipated HD2 smartphone in the US on Tuesday, but also said that no plans were in ...

Windows Phone forgets how to copy and paste

CNET - Ina Fried - ‎Mar 16, 2010‎
LAS VEGAS--The new Windows Phones have a lot of things that prior versions of Windows Mobile haven't had, most notably a cool factor. ...

Does Microsoft thinking copying the 2007 iPhone is a good idea?

ZDNet (blog) - Matthew Miller - ‎Mar 16, 2010‎
We were expecting to hear a lot about Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10 in Vegas this week and while there has been some interesting news for developers, ...

Silverlight to underpin Windows Phone 7 apps

ZDNet UK - Simon Bisson - ‎Mar 16, 2010‎
Microsoft has unveiled the release candidate of its Silverlight 4 browser plug-in and outlined its developer strategy ...

Windows Phone 7: What You Need to Know

PC Magazine - Sascha Segan - ‎Mar 16, 2010‎
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 could make a big splash when it comes to market later this year. Here are some of the top things you need to ...

Report: Windows Phone manager starting own app company

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - ‎Mar 16, 2010‎
Microsoft Program Manager Mel Sampat, of the Windows Mobile/Windows Phone 7 team, reportedly has left Redmond to start a new company developing . ...

MIX10: Twitter by Morse code coming to Windows Phone

Seattle Times - Sharon Chan - ‎Mar 16, 2010‎
LAS VEGAS -- A developer built a Windows Phone app overnight that enabled tweeting by Morse code on Twitter. Bill Buxton, principal researcher at Microsoft, ...

MIX10 Liveblog, Day 2: taking the covers off of IE9

ZDNet (blog) - Ed Bott - ‎Mar 16, 2010‎
And we're back at the Mandalay Bay Hotel Conference Center in Las Vegas, waiting for the keynote address for Day 2 of Microsoft's MIX10 conference. ...

MIX10: Day 1 of Microsoft Web conference summed up

Seattle Times - Sharon Chan - ‎Mar 16, 2010‎
LAS VEGAS -- To woo developers to build applications for its upcoming mobile phone, Microsoft scattered technology catnip throughout the MIX tech conference ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sees employee using Apple iPhone, pretends to ...

New York Daily News - Catey Hill - ‎Mar 16, 2010‎
It's no secret that Microsoft and Apple are far from BFFs - a fact that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made pretty clear at a recent company ...

 

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