“My name is Brandon Watson, and I am currently responsible for the Developer Experience team for Windows Phone 7. That means I work on developer marketing, our developer platform products, and have a real focus/passion on new opportunities, specifically around developer enablement and mobile” That was his role and he was great at it. A [...]

Out of all of the things that came out of the leaked Joe Belfiore was this tidbit: Windows Phone 8 won’t just share a UI with the next-generation desktop and tablet OS, apparently: it will use many of the same components as Windows 8, allowing developers to "reuse — by far — most of their [...]

Ed Bott from ZDNet put together pie charts that show where each Microsoft, Apple and Google make their money based on their latest filings. This is amazing stuff: Microsoft: Apple: Google: So Microsoft actually has a somewhat balance offering with business, server, Windows and Entertainment each taking large chunks of the company. Apple is iPhone [...]

What do you do after a video starring you talking about Windows Phones becomes the talk of the blogosphere? Laugh it off: No denials or backtracking…I like it.

Holy crap. What a score!  PocketNow got their hands on a video intended for Nokia partners where Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore talks about Windows phone 8. Let’s just break it down for you: Multicore processors are supported 4 screen resolutions will be supported removable SD cards NFC support and a “wallet experience’” so Microsoft is coming [...]

A video is worth a billion words: Nice right? It seems to have all of the elements you’d expect from a full studio game. And before I go further, here’s the link in iTunes and here’s the Windows Phone link. It’s $2 for iPhone and $3 for Windows Phones and sadly there’s no trial (and [...]

Balloon Gunner is an awesome game for Windows Phones. Almost a year ago I bought it after trying the trial and needing more. Let me just be lazy and quote myself: The game itself is a 3D plane (ok fine balloon) shooter where you tilt the phone to control your balloon and have to complete [...]

I recently splurged and bought myself a Kindle, in part because on Craigslist you can nab one for about $65 NIB and at that price I was able to justify it and hopefully motivate myself to read a little more.  After spending a little time with it I’m shocked at how great a device it [...]

Sharing videos is an absolutely basic function for a smartphone, one that even Windows Mobile easily handled. In Windows Phones, Mango introduced the ability to upload videos to SkyDrive and Facebook but that was it. When I saw the feature list for the official Windows Phone Vimeo I was excited to see “Easily upload your [...]

This is only a big deal because had MS lost it would have been a massive loss. That and it means that the fees that MS is charging and their methodology for seeking royalties from manufacturers of Android devices is permissible. Foss Patents notes (in part but read it in full for a lot more [...]