Microsoft unveiled the world’s largest Windows Phone yesterday at NYC’s Herald Square, and it stands a massive 55-feet tall. This behemoth is comprised of “enormous tiles [that] display video feeds transmitted from a control room, and move out of place to accommodate live stage performances.”
You’ve seen what the offices of Blizzard and Google look like, now here’s a sneak peak at some parts of Microsoft’s Redmond campus. The “grounds comprise over 300 acres, with about 40 buildings housing nearly 14,000 offices.” Videos after the break.
Inspired by the Windows Phone 7 “NoDo” update trick making the rounds this week, Chris Walsh and I have come up with a way to get something even better, an early in-development version of the Mango update. Read and act quickly before Microsoft wises up.
The hack, albeit extremely simple in retrospect, involves overriding the update [...]
Microsoft’s fledgling smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 7, has just hit an important milestone: over 10,000 apps are now available from the Marketplace. Microsoft has managed to reach this impressive target in just four and a half months, faster than both Apple’s iOS App Store and Google’s Android Market managed, adding about 1,000 apps a [...]
We heard it was coming, and as foretold, Windows 7 SP1 was released yesterday for download via Windows Update or direct from Microsoft. Appearing in beta form last year, it’s not the smallest of updates, weighing in at up to just under 2GB in size for the full dual disc image, but SP1 brings with [...]
If the screenshot above seems a bit grainy, it’s because I snapped it off a live video Microsoft has just finished streaming. It was a 30-minute event announcing Office 365, which is a very bold foray into the cloud for Microsoft. Some of the highlights of the announcement:
Sure, Apple’s been stealing most of the blog headlines this afternoon, but Microsoft has some pretty big news of their own. Today, Windows Phone 7 was officially released to manufacturing — and the boys in Redmond are pretty stoked about it.
Microsoft’s Terry Myerson certainly sounds pumped in the official blog post. “We’ve had thousands [...]
Researcher Mark Micire at the UMass-Lowell Robotics Lab developed a custom interface that enables utilizes Microsoft Surface technology for commanding and controlling robots. In the first video, you’ll see him use “Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio to simulate his soldiers and environment.”
The researchers use multitouch to send the robots scurrying around to execute commands, but also [...]
“More information is being revealed about the next iteration of Microsoft’s Live-branded products. We know when the new programs are going to start rolling out, we know that Windows XP won’t be supported, and we know a lot about the features of the next Windows Live Messenger…Now Windows Live Hotmail is in the spotlight. The [...]
Microsoft continuously improves Windows 7® and Windows Server® 2008 R2 by providing ongoing updates while working with software and hardware vendors to deliver application compatibility and hardware compatibility improvements. Service Pack 1 (SP1) is another vehicle through which Microsoft provides operating system improvements to customers.
