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Windows Mobile 6.1 was just announced at CTIA yesterday. A bunch of us got together to record a video demoing most of the new features in Windows Mobile 6.1. Check out this 40-minute video that shows: Cool devices, including the T-Mobile Shadow, HTC Tilt,
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This morning Microsoft officially 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
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Everyone I know at Microsoft uses a Windows Mobile phone (well, except for 2 people...one is a guy that works in the Mac Unit and the other is Bill Gates who doesn't use a cell phone). Microsoft employees are often the first customers of our product.
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While you're working: Windows Mobile Library . This technical library contains resources that can help you deploy and operate Windows Mobile powered devices. While you're playing: The official Windows Mobile page on Facebook. Discuss, share photos, tell
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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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What are some ways the Zune player and a Windows Mobile device can work better together? I'm not referring to an imaginary "Zune phone", and I'm certainly not hinting or speculating about a converged device. Instead, I'm wondering if there are any opportunities
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On behalf of the entire Windows Mobile team, I'd like to wish all our customers, developers, partners, enthusiasts, bloggers, press and friends everywhere Merry Christmas, happy holidays and best wishes for the new year. We've got some exciting releases
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I heard someone say they wished it were possible to create a speed dial entry for text messaging in Windows Mobile. As most of you might know, text messaging is not a standalone app - it's just another account within the Messaging client, which also supports
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Are you on Facebook ? Do you use Outlook and Windows Mobile? If you answered yes and yes, get OutSync , a free app to sync your Facebook friends' photos with Outlook! It's written by Mel Sampat on the Windows Mobile team, and is free to use. Watch the
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Someone just pointed out this feature I didn't know existed in Windows Mobile. When you have a contact highlighted you can press the d-pad Left and Right keys to change communication methods for the person (work, home, mobile, txt, email etc). Watch really
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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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Our Device Management and Security (DMSec) team recently produced a series of security booklets. These were very well recieved at the MEDC 2007 event last week. So I'd like to point out that these are also available online. Among the topics you will find:
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Michael Howe, the all powerful Test Lead in Windows Mobile just got back from paternity leave to find a few small gifts in his office... Now you know where all those recycled monitors go... :) Have a great weekend everyone.
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Here's the spoof video that was shown at MIX '07 and MEDC last week. Behind the humor, there's a serious message - adapt your app ! Windows Mobile devices are coming in all shapes and sizes. If you're hard-coding things like screen sizes and coordinates,
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I recently sat down with Rory Blyth from Channel9 to talk about some of the new features in Windows Mobile 6 and cool developer features we're working on. Click here to watch the video (approx 28 minutes): I will be at MEDC in Las Vegas all of next week
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