Microsoft and Windows Round-up – 5.7.2010

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.

Related posts:

1. Microsoft & Windows Round-up – 28.05.2010
2. Microsoft & Windows Round-up – 04.06.2010
3. Microsoft and Windows Round-up – 18.06.2010
4. Microsoft & Windows Round-up – 26.05.2010
5. Microsoft and Windows Round-up – 09.06.2010