Comment Re:So basically (Score 1) 226
Still... what happened to "developers, developers, developers"?
150,000 applications and 3 Billion downloads from Apple App Store happened. It tells Microsoft that developers are gonna be fine. Sure it's not going to make everyone happy, but its enough to be a successful platform in the current mobile phone industry.
Microsoft Shows Full 3D XNA Games On Windows Phone 70
suraj.sun writes "Microsoft has shown off XNA games running on Windows Phone; full 3D is a go. From Engadget: 'Microsoft just showed us a pair of 3D games running on its ASUS Windows Phone prototype and built with its brand new XNA Game Studio 4.0 9. The two titles are The Harvest, a good looking touch-controlled dungeon crawler with destructible environments, being developed by Luma Arcade; and Battle Punks. Microsoft spoke to the ease of its Direct3D development platform, which was built by the same folks responsible for the first-gen Xbox. What we saw of The Harvest was built in "two or three weeks," mostly from scratch, and folks who've already built games for XNA in VisualStudio shouldn't have much trouble with a port from the sound of things: "very, very easy," said Microsoft. Right now developers can do their testing in Windows, but there should be a Windows Phone 7 Series emulator out for devs eventually.'"
Comment Re:Step 5, Profit? (Score 1) 133
Microsoft would make money by running the services themselves and pocket the subscription fees instead of licensing fees.
Comment Ballmer's talk on cloud computing (Score 2, Interesting) 133
Ballmer gave a talk at the University of Washington on Microsoft's cloud strategy:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/cloud/videogallery.aspx
Modern Warfare 2 Not Recalled In Russia After All 94
thief21 writes "After claims that console versions Modern Warfare 2 had been recalled in Russia due to complaints from politicians and the gaming public over the infamous airport slaughter scene, it turns out the stories were completely untrue. Activision never released a console version of the game in Russia."
Instead, they simply edited the notorious scene out of the PC version. They did this of their own volition, since Russia doesn't have a formal ratings committee.
Comment Re:Penny Arcade Charity (Score 1) 416
Seconded. Give it to a charity or give it away as a gift. If you're short on cash for media center, sell it on eBay and build/buy your favorite flavor of OS for media center box.
Comment Re:Let me be the first to say (Score 1) 684
Well they Apple has this handy disclaimer on the page you linked - "Tethering is not currently offered in the U.S. and some other countries. See your carrier for availability". No fraud here as value of "some" now approaches "all".
Comment Re:OWA Support for Firefox and Safari (Score 1) 274
Exchange 2010 fully supports premium OWA experience in Firefox 3.x and Safari 3.x (on Mac). That includes HTML mail compose, drag & drop support and flashy UI.
Comment Monad (Score 1, Insightful) 365
I think the Monad cmdline shell is innovative in its use of rich objects rather than text as output. Exchange 2007 adopted it heavily for their administration tools finaly giving decent cmdline access to that product. Hopefully more server products will follow that trend.
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