I am Microsoftie 4 ever (18+ years) working in Windows Services and Content team in the UK, my blog is mainly focused on the Windows family of products and trying to provide help pointers and resources for customers on our products.
Now this really is an easy way to find Windows Phone 7 apps using bing Visual Search
http://www.bing.com/visualsearch?g=uk_wp7&qpvt=Windows+Phone+7+Apps&FORM=Z9GE18#
Of course you can filter and search for apps as well by top rated, newest free/paid apps as well as most downloaded…
thanks to my colleague @richlane for pointing this out
Rob
Learn a little bit more about these 2 products and Windows 7…
Windows Live Photo Gallery
“With Windows 7 and Windows Live Photo Gallery, it's easy—and fun—to edit, organize, and share your photos and videos. Windows Live Photo Gallery is part of Windows Live Essentials, a free download that also includes tools for movies, instant messaging, email, social networking, and more. “
Windows Live Movie Maker
“With Windows 7 and Windows Live Movie Maker, it's easier than ever to create and share your own movies. It's part of Windows Live Essentials, a free download that also includes tools for photos, instant messaging, email, social networking, and more. “
Also you can find more details about how to Create, Connect and Share with Windows Live and see some great videos of using Windows Live.
Download Windows Live Essentials
A History of Microsoft – Highlights from the First 35 years.
Great new article on the Windows Online site that covers the history of Microsoft and our operating systems, with some great geek trivia in there as well.
1975–1981: Microsoft boots up
1982–1985: Introducing Windows 1.0
1987–1992: Windows 2.0–2.11—More windows, more speed
1990–1994: Windows 3.0–Windows NT—Getting the graphics
1995–2001: Windows 95—the PC comes of age (and don't forget the Internet)
2001–2005: Windows XP—Stable, usable, and fast
2006–2008: Windows Vista—Smart on security
2009–Today: Windows 7 and counting...
A History of Microsoft – Highlights from the First 35 years. Rob Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Windows
Remember the video from back in May about controlling Windows Media Cenrer from a Windows Phone well here is an even more impressive demo from Land Dolphin
Again thanks to my colleague Abid for the link
I love my Kinect (almost as much as my 5 year old). I got sent the following great video from my German colleague Christian that runs the German language WindowsZone blog of some interactive art using Kinect
“Germany's sweetheart Sylvie van der Vaart joined shoppers in Munich's famous Karlsplatz to create a breathtaking piece of interactive art inspired by Kinect. State of the art technology allowed shoppers to take control of the iconic Stachus gate; bringing the ancient medieval structure to life by jumping, dancing, waving and gyrating. Kinect - you are the controller.”
Get started with the cloud at http://www.windows.co.uk/cloud.
Learn more about how to create, share and connect with Windows Live
thanks to @robertepstein for the tip
I have always been a big fan of tablet PCs having had 3 or some in my time at Microsoft. So it is great to see this tablet from Dell which for me has the all important keyboard allowing me to actually justify the device as something I could, if I wanted to, work on. Plus of course it is running Windows7.
Would love to get my hands on one for a play.
Updated to say Watch the Latest Us Windows Cloud advert to see a little more - thanks @stevecla01
One thing you will notice using Internet Explorer 9 Beta is that there is no extra search box and you can search direct from the address bar which is great and helps declutter the design IMO. However this can cause a problem if you enter in an intranet address, as it will not find it and take you to a search results for that term:
If you are lucky the intranet name might be recognised and you will get the new Notification Bar pop up asking you if you want to go to the intranet site:
However you can get IE9 to go straight to your intranet site by simply adding a / onto the end of your address
IE9 then adds the additional http:// and you are sent direct to your intranet page.
You can of course add your sites as well to the Intranet Zone within the settings.
Choose Options - Internet options - Secuity tab - Local Intranet - Sites - Advanced
If you are looking at buying a new PC running Windows 7 you may want to check out the latest offers we have.
These include*:
Get the slim, unbelievably light HP Pavilion DM4 laptop and be rewarded with £150 back when you trade in your old machine.
John Lewis has a wide range of laptops available online all with 2 year guarantees . Choose from high performance wireless laptops, compact portable options or widescreen models to replace your home desktop PC.With a large range of top brand names including Toshiba, Acer, Sony, HP and more, the perfect laptop is waiting for you.
* check each offer for specific Ts & C’s
If you would like to run Windows 7 in any of these 5 South African languages then you can now download them from the Microsoft download center:
Please note that the South African Windows 7 LIPs can only be installed on a system that runs an English client version of Windows 7. They are available to download for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
You can also download these language interface packs for Windows Vista and some (Africaans, Setswana and isiZulu are available for to download Windows XP)