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This morning Microsoft announced Windows Mobile 6.1 and an upgrade for Internet Explorer Mobile. Windows Mobile 6.1 will start showing up in devices very very soon, and the IEMobile update will be available later this year. Windows Mobile 6.1 includes
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I was having dinner with someone when she pointed out the huge amount of Microsoft phrases some of us tend to use outside of work. It was amusing, so I wrote down a list of phrases I catch myself using. For those of you who are friends with, or dating,
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The hallways and elevator entrances in most Microsoft buildings are always covered with posters announcing internal betas, promotions, new initiatives etc. Every once in a while I'll see a poster that's incredibly funny, witty or effective. I just noticed
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You thought txting coworkers is iffy. My good friend and popular Windows Mobile blogger Loke Uei Tan is starting a trend at Microsoft. He's making "Poke me" a mainstream, accepted means of corporate communications - at par with "call me", "email me",
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This video has been shown at internal Microsoft events a few times. It always draws a great response from the audience, followed by internal email aliases flooded for days with requests for a link or high bandwidth version. I finally found it on MSN Soapbox
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Scott Hanselman and I sat down last week to talk about writing Facebook applications. I share my experience developing Facebook apps such as OutSync and "I Love My Phone" . If you're new to Facebook or writing Facebook apps, take a listen. Our
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Windows Home Server hit RTM. Wow, I need this product today for my huge collection of photos, media and documents! Can't wait to see all the cool hardware coming from HP and others. Check out this Channel 10 video for more information. 2 reports out this
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Mobile Search v2 has just been released with improved navigation, caching, movie listings, restaurants, GPS, traffic reporting and more! This is one of my all time favorite apps, and not just because I work in the Windows Mobile team. It is extremely
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Someone from Recruiting recently interviewed me about what it's like to work at Microsoft. You can download the audio interview here (16 MB), and hear some of the ups and downs of working here. Speaking of work, here's some news for those of you that
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As Microsoft employees, we take great pride in our software products and commitment to customers. Microsoft decided a long time ago that we would take a holistic approach and make sure that all our products talk to each other. The integration you see
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Microsoft ranked #12 in Fortune's list of America's Most Admired Companies 2007 . And we're #4 in the Computer Software category. I'll add a little internal spin on that: Windows Mobile is the #2 most admired place to work at within Microsoft (purely
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If you prefer to use Internet Explorer instead of the Windows Live client to locate your nearest Starbucks, there's good news: Starbucks now has a mobile friendly website at http://mobile.starbucks.com ! Honestly, there are very few things prettier than
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I recently sat down with Laura Foy from Channel 10 to demo a cool project I've been working on. Click the image below to watch a video of the prototype in action. What do you think?
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Windows Mobile 6 has just been officially announced . Lots of early reviews already floating around the Web and there will be a many more coming in the days ahead. As a member of the Windows Mobile team, I'm extremely proud of this release. At first glance
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If you read the Windows Mobile Team Blog , you've probably seen posts from our brilliant Software Design Engineer Luis Cabrera . He's one of the smartest people in the team. In fact, Luis is so smart that he uses complex mathematical patterns for his
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