Mobility
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 This year, dozens of new Ultrabook devices will flood the market. Are they just MacBook Air rip-offs, or do these new machines offer some unique benefits? And how will the release of Windows 8 in late 2012 impact this market?
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 While I won't be writing a full review of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, I did want to provide a few notes about my first few weeks of using this new Google flagship handset, and the first to utilize Android 4.0.
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.
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