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Photoshop Templates Divulge More About Windows Phone 7 User Interface
Written on Wed, 07/21/10 - 4:56pm
Microsoft's taking bold risks with Windows Phone 7, sporting the new "Metro" user interface that's designed from the ground up. No Windows Mobile 6.5 makeover here. While I'm pretty much holding back judgment on the new Microsoft phone OS, many are giving WP7 and Metro a thumbs up. (I'm still nursing...
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Microsoft Is Perfect Example Why Executive Pay Is Broken
Written on Fri, 11/06/09 - 8:34am
Text message this morning from CNN: Unemployment hit 10.2% in October. Microsoft announced earlier this week another 800 employee layoffs to the 5,000 previously announced employee layoffs. If you look at Microsoft's financials you see why, a 14% revenue and 18% net income drop for the last reported...
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Just How Much Is Riding on Windows 7 For Microsoft?
Written on Fri, 10/23/09 - 9:09am
In a word, Windows 7 means "everything" for Microsoft's future. We can all talk about the insane number of SharePoint licenses sold, how well Windows Server 2008 has been put together, Bing's surprising rise in the search market, and exciting moves by Microsoft into Online Services for hosted Microsoft...
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The Dawn of the "micro app" - Why Smartphone Apps Are Proving Google Wrong
Written on Mon, 10/05/09 - 9:17am
Apple iPhones, Google Android phones, BlackBerries, Microsoft Windows Mobile, and the Palm Pre all bring us mobile platforms that can do more than just make phone calls, check our calendars and do email. It's now all about "the apps", the mobile applications that come with and can be downloaded or synchronized...
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Microsoft... Coming to a New Store Near You
Written on Tue, 07/28/09 - 3:36am
Apple and Radio Shack are probably the two most successful electronics brands to have retail stores dedicated to selling their own products direct to the customer. Radio Shack of course is a much different business model, more of a commercialization of the hobby electronics store, where as Apple stores...
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Google's Still No Threat To Microsoft
Written on Fri, 07/10/09 - 3:55am
Someone was asking me, "just what is Google's strategy?" I had to describe Google this way, "Google's like this crazy uncle who is rolling in dough from his first business, and who likes to use his money to keep the rest of the world guessing as to what he's really up to." Google's like a chaotic-neutral...
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SkyFire Web Browser Rocks on Windows Mobile
Written on Tue, 06/16/09 - 11:56am
To say the Windows Mobile web browser is a bit long in the tooth would be as big of an understatement as saying Wall Street thrives on greed. Newer mobile OS's on the iPhone, Google Android and Palm Pre make Windows Mobile 6.x's web browser look as ancient as DOS text graphics. But, there's good news....
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Citrix Takes Microsoft Apps Mobile With New iPhone App
Written on Thu, 05/14/09 - 3:35am
You knew it was going to happen sooner or later. Citrix is taking Microsoft apps mobile but it’s not just on Windows Mobile, it’s Microsoft Windows apps on the iPhone too. Citrix launched the Citrix Receiver iPhone app, available now free for download from the iPhone App Store. I had a chance to...
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Storm Customers Left To Run Unsupported Software
Written on Wed, 04/08/09 - 4:05am
Seems like yesterday's rant about my Blackberry Storm kicked up quite a firestorm (pun intended.) One thing's for sure: taking sides about Smartphones (Blackberry, iPhone or Windows Mobile) and computer operating systems (Windows, OS X or Linux) will get you plenty of comment flames, and...
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Google Task Lists -- The economy must be bad
Written on Wed, 12/10/08 - 3:02am
Things are getting bad when Google's adding a Task List feature to Gmail is big news. My in-box is littered with Google Alerts about blogs and articles discussing Google's new task functionality. Is it the economy? Do we need a change of subject from all the layoff news? What is it? Maybe it's...
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Live Mesh on Windows Mobile Teaser
Written on Thu, 09/04/08 - 6:34am
"Somehow" a Live Mesh client running on Windows Mobile was demonstrated at the Australia Tech Ed conference. Things have been relatively quite on the Live Mesh front and it's good to see some progress revealing itself once in a while. The Windows Mobile Live Mesh client should be available...
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iPhone 3G, the waiting is the hardest part
Written on Mon, 08/25/08 - 12:33am
Does the Apple iPhone 3G live up to Apple's advertising? Not according to this recorded comparison between what Apple's 3G commercial shows vs. an actual demonstration with full signal strength just outside the Apple store in Boston. As that famous Tom Petty song says, the waiting is the...
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Apple lemmings lining up for Friday's iPhone 3G
Written on Wed, 07/09/08 - 1:16pm
More iPhone madness is about to descend upon the world this Friday when Apple unleashes the iPhone 3G.
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How Apple Can Win The Browser Wars
Written on Sat, 06/21/08 - 12:42pm
Apple's definitely heading down the wrong path with the whole Spamafari browser install approach. The whole thing with Apple Updater covertly pushing Safari onto our PC desktops is way beyond uncool. The last thing I want is yet another browser competing to be my default browser, especially...
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Google Android Learned From iPhone's Mistakes
Written on Tue, 02/19/08 - 3:22am
Things are amp'ing up on the Google Android front. Hardware prototypes and videos of phones sporting early Android software are showing up on the net and at trade shows. (Slides of Android devices from this month's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.) Here's a video demo from Android's...
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iPhone Watch Out For DANGER!
Written on Tue, 02/12/08 - 3:09am
Microsoft's not going to give up quietly when it comes to the market success of the Apple iPhone. Tuesday, Microsoft announced their intentions to acquire cell phone software technology company Danger Inc. I've watched Danger-based devices evolve since their first introduction as some of...
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Windows Mobile Office 6.1 - Upgrade Done Right
Written on Mon, 12/03/07 - 2:10am
Hats off to Microsoft for releasing the Windows Mobile Office 6.1 upgrade the right way; directly to users. Over the weekend I upgraded to the new WMO 6.1 release which went flawlessly. Rather than dinking around with Samsung, (or Motorola in the past), the update was available directly from the Microsoft...
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About Converging on Microsoft
Mitchell Ashley has a diverse background in software development, network engineering, information security, mobility, collaborative technologies, and IT management and operations. An early adopter of social media in business, he began blogging about security and information technologies in 2006 at theconvergingnetwork.com. Mitchell is VP of Information Technology at CableLabs in Louisville, CO, and previously held positions as CIO, CTO and VP Engineering at prior companies.
 

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