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Microsoft: Steve Ballmer NOT Showing Up At WWDC 2010

by Stefan Etienne on 27. May, 2010 in Apple, Breaking, Microsoft, News

An analyst named Trip Chowdhry at Global Equities Research set off a fireball of rumors. That rumor was that Steve Ballmer would be speaking for exactly 7 minutes at the WWDC 2010 conference, which Steve Jobs can proudly label “iPhone Country”. An appearance by the CEO of Microsoft wouldn’t be so shocking, if it didn’t actually happen. And that’s what Microsoft just explained in a tweet: good ‘ol Ballmer isn’t showing up at WWDC. That settles that, uh?

Source: Twitter (Microsoft), Barron’s (the rumor)

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HP Slate is a piece of dead meat too (nearly)

by Stefan Etienne on 30. Apr, 2010 in HP, Hardware, Tablets, Windows

Aww, come on Microsoft! First the Courier gets the good ‘ol boot, and now the HP Slate gets the slapping as well? According to my not-so-well-acquainted colleague Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch, the HP Slate is dead, much like the Courier and was confirmed by sources also in the know about the project. Not only this would be the biggest flop I’ve seen with my eyes in the mobile industry, but would be an enormous disappointment by HP as a company. I’ve reached out to HP for comment, and will update this post if I hear from them.

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The Microsoft Courier Dies. And The Internet Just Sighed

by Stefan Etienne on 29. Apr, 2010 in Featured, Hardware, Microsoft, Tablets

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Microsoft. Has. Killed. The. Courier. It’s a dead and done project, never to come out in stores, or into consumer hands, ever. At least that’s what sources close to Microsoft told Gizmodo. What actually happened is pretty simple, actually. The Courier team got a heads-up form Microsoft saying “get off your PCs, Courier is dead dudes.” Okay, so maybe they didn’t say that exactly, but practically, that’s what they said, and that means Courier is dead. This also could’ve been “there’s not only the iPad you know!” ploy by Microsoft, to keep everyone on their toes. It happens with cars, it can happen with mobile products too. Oh well, so long Courier.

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Microsoft’s April 12th event happens to be for the “Pure” and “Turtle” phones?

by Stefan Etienne on 06. Apr, 2010 in Handsets, Microsoft, Rumors, Verizon

Yesterday, when we wrote about Microsoft’s upcoming “It’s Time To Share” event, both the Wall Street Journal and CNET published similar news stories, but claiming that they had sources in-the-know, and claimed that these sources were telling them that it’s the Project Pink phones finally coming out. According to speculation and the articles, the “Project Pink” phones are for “teens” and the “always-connected crowd”. Both phones have QWERTY keyboards and touchscreens, and will run on Verizon’s network, but it is unknown if they run Windows Phone 7 (unlikely) and instead are believed to run a version of Windows CE. There’s only six days left till the event, and you can bet us that we’ll have our ears open to hear what’s going on. Oh, and you can also bet that we’ll be covering it, too.

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“It’s Time To Share” Microsoft’s new event coming April 12th

by Stefan Etienne on 05. Apr, 2010 in Microsoft, Rumors

This is the best month in technology ever. You have falling iPads, flying EVO 4Gs, iPhone OS 4.0 on its way, and now Microsoft jumping into the craze with their April 12 (4 days after Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 event) titled “It’s Time To Share”. Share what? How about some…nevermind. It’s would be crazy to jump to conclusions now, wouldn’t it? The event is merely a week away! Although there is some speculation that it’s either the infamous Project Pink, or the Courier. The exciting life of a gadget blogger. Ahhhh.

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64GB Zune HD launching April 12th for $350, other models see $20 drop

by Stefan Etienne on 31. Mar, 2010 in Breaking, Gadgets, Microsoft

Let’s put this out of the way as quickly as we can. To cut a press release and details after the break into a few sentences, the Zune HD will be available in a 64GB storage configuration on April 12th for $349.99 on the official Zune online store, with retailers coming in for the ride later. Ouch, pricey. In the meantime the 32GB and 16Gb will get a $20 price drop, $270 and $200 respectively. As for the Zune firmware v4.5 update, Microsoft had this to say: “in the coming days.” Okay, Microsoft, as long as it’s “in the coming days”. Press release after the jump.

Via: Engadget
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Zune HD in 64GB version coming soon?

by Stefan Etienne on 29. Mar, 2010 in Gadgets, Hardware, Microsoft

In a recent gaffe supposedly by a someone managing the Zune website, a dead link to a 64GB capacity Zune HD appeared. While there’s no direct info as to when it might show up, or if this is just a trick remains to be seen, otherwise having a Zune HD with 64GB of storage space to stuff junk into is quite an interesting fantasy, no?

Source: Zune

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Microsoft lifts the curtain on Windows Phone 7 Series development, gets serious

by Stefan Etienne on 15. Mar, 2010 in Microsoft, News, Windows Phone

This time around Microsoft means business. They want a mobile version of Windows to work so badly that they’re doing things right. Which is the way it should be. To kick off MIX 2010, Microsoft unveiled the new Windows Phone 7 Series SDK, which allows developers to easily create apps for WP7 phones. Included dev tools like Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone 7 Series, a free add-in to use with Visual Studio 2010 RC, XNA Game Studio 4.0, Windows Phone 7 Series Emulator for application testing, and a version of Expression Blend for Windows Phone will allow apps to really come to life this time.

The app store in the meantime looks sleek, there will be try-before-you-buy options, one-time credit card charges for app purchases, mobile carrier billing, and ad-support in apps. Start-ups and giants like the Associated Press, gaming gurus NAMCO and EA Mobile, streaming media devs like Pandora and Sling, awesome companies like Foursquare and Seesmic, and a hive of others including Weatherbug, PopCap games, SPB Software and more. And just to dash your hopes, the Windows Phone Marketplace will be the only place to get apps onto your phone.

Again, Microsoft means business.

Source: Mircosoft

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Microsoft Courier: It’s Evolved, Probably For The Better

by Stefan Etienne on 05. Mar, 2010 in Gadgets, Microsoft, Tablets

When we last reported on the Microsoft Courier there was little to none on actual details on it. But now we know a couple of things. First, it still leaves us very excited, it weighs under a pound, has a “digital journal feel”, that snazzy pen, and when folded looks like a 5×7 photo card. It’s built on the same core as the Zune HD UI and Windows Phone 7 Series and uses the Tegra 2, but doesn’t run any of the latter OSes mentioned. So far Engadget pegs the launch at later this year, but there are some conflicting reports of it coming around next year (if at all). Even though it’s smaller and probably less feature-loaded, there’s still lots of excitement going on around here, anyway this could still be a prototype, and it could change again. One more shot of it after the break.

Source: Engadget

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HTC HD2 caught running Windows Phone 7 Series? (UPDATE: Fake)

by Stefan Etienne on 16. Feb, 2010 in HTC, Rumors, Windows Phone

If things at MWC 2010 can get any better than they already are, it’s having the one best smartphones — the HTC HD2, running not Windows Mobile 6.5, but Windows Phone 7 Series as seen above at Mobile World Congress. If it is true that the HD2 is given the chance to run Windows Phone 7 on an official scale via an update, then it would immediately be the flagship Windows Phone; just as it is for the current version of WinMo. We can be hopeful, otherwise we’ll have to leave this job to the — hackers. [PhoneArena]

UPDATED: Look who just posted a tweet saying it’s fake. And it is.

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