It might be a holiday in the US and tech news might be pretty slim pickings but that doesn’t stop the crew here at WinExtra from finding at least a couple items of interest for the round-up.
Microsoft:
- Microsoft Calling. Anyone There? – New York Times
Microsoft’s engineers and executives spent two years creating a new line of smartphones with playful names that sounded like creatures straight out of “The Cat in the Hat” — Kin One and Kin Two. Stylish designs, an emphasis on flashy social-networking features … - .NET Culture Shock: Why .NET Adoption Lags Among Startups – Aaron on the Web
One of the other things I took away from Code Camp was a bit of .NET culture shock. As you can tell by glimpsing around on this blog, I am somewhat enamored with the idea of starting my own business. I’m a natural entrepreneur and it is my wont to think about startups constantly.
Windows:
- Tweak Internet Explorer, Toolbar, Restrictions, Settings – gHacks
Tweak IE is a free program to change various settings in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The portable software displays a list of available tweaking sections in its sidebar on launch, among them toolbar, control panel and restriction tweaks. - Unlocker now removes stubborn files on 64-bit Windows - Download Squad
If you’ve ever received an error message when trying to delete a file, then you know what Unlocker is for. It’s a free utility for deleting or moving files that are locked by a Windows process — which is why Unlocker has long been a part of my malware-busting toolkit. - Notable Changes in Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 – Codename Windows
The Notable Changes doc was leaked together with the pre-Beta copies of Windows 7 SP1. I’ve included it below
Windows Phone 7:
- LG E900 and LG C900 :Two LG Windows Phone 7 devices revealed in user agent strings – WMPoweruser
We know LG is a key partner of Microsoft in its Windows Phone 7 push, so it is reassuring to know the company is working on more than one handset running the new OS.
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I wonder how microsoft comes up with the phone names. Is it based on market research or someones “hunch”. I would like to be in the room when they are throwing names around.