For the most part April 1st of any year is a total waste when it comes to the tech blogosphere and the hunt for news. This is because bloggers are clogging up the pipes with even more inane and ridiculous crap nonsense in an effort to show how clever they can be.

Even with that though Paul and I managed to dig up a few interesting headlines and a couple of worthy discussion points.

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• Windows 8′s real Metro UI is “immersive” tablet experience – WinRumors
• Evoluce Releases Windows 7 Software For Kinect to Control all applications with Hand Gestures – Kinect Hacks
• A glimpse of some new Bing features – Next at Microsoft (post looks to have been pulled)
  

  video 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h8pCigGEH4
  Video 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aKRFkereR0
  video 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qZCivnzXls

• Microsoft wants “quality not quantity” for mobile apps - PCPro
• Why did Google drop support for Microsoft .WMA audio files from Android 3.0 Honeycomb? – Computerworld