Windows Phone
Microsoft this week provided new information about how it will integrate its SkyDrive cloud-storage service with Windows 8 (and previous Windows versions), dramatically improving the interoperability between the two. Put simply, SkyDrive should see a huge surge in usage in the next year or two: This already-useful service is about to become indispensable.
more Version 2.3 of the free Facebook app for Windows Phone is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace, and if you're using the previous version, you'll want to upgrade immediately: Contrary to the minor version number update, this is a major update that adds some very useful and long-awaited features.
more While Windows Phone still offers basic apps organization capabilities compared to iOS or Android, things have improved somewhat in Windows Phone 7.5.
more While everyone is understandably excited about the recent Windows Phone 8 leak, this revelation also tells us some things we didn't know about Windows 8. So let's look at what we've learned and speculate a bit about other features that could be coming to Windows 8 as well.
more Thanks to a recent leak which has revealed some interesting information about the next major Windows Phone version, I can now publicly discuss Windows Phone 8 for the first time.
more For years, Microsoft has pushed a narrative where its products were wonderful as standalone solutions but "better together" when used in concert with other Microsoft products. While the merits of such an approach can be judged on a case by case basis, there's little doubt that Windows Phone and Office 365 are excellent on their own. But by integrating them as one, these two solutions are indeed better together, and an excellent argument for those who wish to stay within the Microsoft sphere of platforms.
more Earlier this month, I wrote about my decision to migrate my consolidated personal email accounts from Gmail to Hotmail, which I use along side Exchange-based solutions at work and with Office 365. Since then, I've gotten a lot of interesting feedback from readers and, perhaps not coincidentally, have seen some interesting moves from both Google and Microsoft in the web email space. But the big news, perhaps, is that this transition has gone a lot more smoothly than I'd imagined.
more Windows Phone 7.5 includes a great new feature called Linked Inbox, which lets you consolidate two or more email accounts into a single, integrated view. Not coincidentally, if you're consolidating email accounts as I am, this feature can also be very useful when you want to send email from two or consolidated accounts. Here's how to set it up.
more I appeared on the latest episode of the Windows Phone Dev Podcast this week. Ryan Lowdermilk and I discussed the Windows Phone news from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, including the AT&T and Nokia press conferences and Microsoft's final keynote address. And for you Call of Duty fans, a healthy debate about the best weapon loadout for MW3 Team Deathmatch.
more There's a new hero in town, and he goes by the name Nokia Lumia 900. This amazing Windows Phone handset will be my next phone, and of all the things I've seen announced this week at CES, this is by far the most impressive. I can't get wait to get one.
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