Microsoft and Windows news was kind of all over the place today but there wasn’t anything of any real importance that broke through.
Microsoft:
- Microsoft’s Latest PC-Mac Comparison is…Almost Reasonable – Technologizer
For years, Microsoft’s marketing efforts for Windows ignored the fact that Macs existed - Zynga’s hit FarmVille vanishes mysteriously from MSN Games – TechFlash
The social gaming world is abuzz tonight with word that hot game company Zynga has apparently pulled its hit FarmVille from Microsoft’s MSN Games portal. - Invitations go out for Xbox Kinect beta program – Seattle PI
It seems that Microsoft has started sending out invitations to a beta program of Kinect, the upcoming motion controller for Xbox 360. - New Xbox 360 Ringtones (And They’re Official!) – Sarah Perez
Xbox’s Major Nelson has just posted new ringtones based on sounds from the newly updated Xbox 360 console, the one referred to (unofficially) as the Xbox Slim.
Windows:
- Mirro: Beautiful Aero CD Art Display Skin For Windows 7 – AddictiveTips
CD Art Display is a free application which supports a long list of widely used media players including Windows media player, Media Monkey, iTunes, Winamp and lot more. - Windows tweaking and optimization: myths and reality – Ed Bott (Igor Leyko)
There are many sites that change Windows behavior or settings, some of which even disable services or functionality
Windows Live & Bing:
- Bing ups its Q&A IQ with Wolfram|Alpha – The Next Web
The battle to be the king of answers continues, but instead of crowdsourcing those answers from the masses as Facebook and Quora are doing, Bing has taken a different approach, teaming with Wolfram|Alpha to offer more scientific answers to searchers’ questions. - Is Windows Live turning on Exchange ActiveSync? (updated) – LiveSide
Back in June, at the same time as the initial rollout of Hotmail (which ended up taking until last week), a number of you were able to access Exchange ActiveSync for Hotmail
Windows Phone 7:
- Voice control for Zune in Windows Phone 7 confirmed – WMPoweruser
MobilitySite have laid some concern I and many others must have had regarding the Tellme voice recognition and control service built into Windows Phone 7. - Microsoft readies Mediaroom for Windows Phone 7 – Long Zheng
Those who still enjoy their fair share of television entertainment through one of dozens Mediaroom-powered IPTV services around the world will be glad to know Microsoft already has a Mediaroom Client ready for Windows Phone 7. - Twilio web telephony service running Windows Phone 7 developer contest – WMPoweruser
Twilio is a web service with a telephony API offering a set of commands that make it easy for developers to integrate phone and SMS services into their web-enabled applications (no, I don’t understand it really either)
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