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Microsoft wants Windows Phone to be “the most secure phone the market has ever seen.”
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The company is looking for a software Development Engineer in Test to engage in “cutting edge fuzzing technology, pentesting, and other security tools to help us ship the most secure phone the market has ever seen.”
Windows Phone 7 has so far not really had any significant testing of their sandbox, and truth be told hackers have managed to work around most of the lock down features Microsoft has implemented so far e.g. the ability to jailbreak and sideload apps, and likely largely benefits from less attention, so this move is certainly welcome.
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Orange exec says the future of Windows Phone depends on Nokia
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Orange is one of the biggest carrier with presence all around the world - from Europe to the Middle East and even Africa. It’s a key factor for the success of Windows Phone, but up until now, the support for Microsoft’s platform on the side of the carrier hasn’t resulted in user adoption. Quite the contrary.
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Klout Giving Away 500 Free Windows Phones
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Ready for a free Windows Phone? You'll first have to take a trip back to your high school days, as only the most popular influencers are going to get a shot at the giveaway devices – 500 in total, being giving out via an exclusive promotion between Microsoft and the popularity-tracking Web service Klout.
Oh, and it'll also help your chances if you're an online superstar – as measured by Klout – and happen to live in one of five metropolitan areas that the free phone giveaways are targeting: New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
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Microsoft talks Windows 8 portrait mode, really wants you to be proud of it
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If Apple is that paranoid friend that has four deadbolts on his door and a loaded weapon in every room, then Microsoft is the over-sharer who tweets where, when and what he had for lunch -- including both before and after photos (and we're not talking about pictures of a clean plate). Redmond wants you to know about everything it does -- no accomplishment is too minor for a lengthy explanation of the what and why. Take for example, portrait mode. Windows 8 will have one. We know what you're thinking, "well I would frackin' hope so," but the devs want you to know this isn't just some feature they slapped in the OS knowing people would expect it. The team studied users both familiar with and n...
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Ballmer blasts Android over usability
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is known for his sweaty on stage antics and for his comments about competitors’ products. Ballmer is back at it again and is blasting Android on usability and saying that consumers need to be a computer scientists to figure out how to use an Android phone. The off the wall comments by Ballmer came from the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco when the Microsoft CEO was asked to compare the appeal of a Windows Phone to an Android phone.
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Free Software Foundation: Windows 8 secure boot requirement could lock out Linux
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched a campaign claiming that Windows 8-certified PCs might prevent users from booting into Linux. The mandatory "secure boot" facility in the systems' Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) might better be called "restricted boot," the organization claims.
Microsoft cheered Windows users in September when it demonstrated the upcoming Windows 8 operating system booting in eight seconds. Part of the technology behind the fast boots, however, could enable Microsoft and its PC vendor partners to block users from loading Linux on a Windows 8 PC, Matthew Garrett, a mobile Linux developer at Red Hat, wrote in a Sept. 20 blog post.
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HTC spending Microsoft’s marketing money well in France
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HTC has decided on a theme with the HTC Titan, and that is big. Monwindowsphone reports the HTC Titan is being advertised in Paris with a huge billboard covering the side of a building, comparing the HTC Titan with the Eiffel Tower and sporting the slogan – “See everything big.”
They are also advertising the HTC Radar in France on YouTube with the tagline “Keeping track of your conversations” referring to the Windows Phone 7.5 threads feature.
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Windows Phone 7 Facebook app finally crosses 1 million monthly active users
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It has been a hard slog, and now, on the eve of the one year anniversary of the launch of Windows Phone 7, the Windows Phone 7 built-in Facebook app has finally crossed the 1 million active user mark.
Based on earlier estimates this translates into about 6 million Windows Phone 7 users in total, a number I am sure far below what Microsoft expected to sell over the last 12 months, but still a reasonable constituent.
By comparison the Facebook for iPhone app has around 90 million users, while the Facebook for Android app has has 67 million.
Hopefully with a new generation of devices and more committed partners in the next 12 months Windows Phone will also cross these milestones at a significan...
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Half of Symbian users would consider a Windows Phone from Nokia
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According to a poll taken by allaboutsymbian.com, a little less than half of the users of a Nokia Symbian device would consider purchasing a Windows Phone from the Finland based manufacturer.
Nokia’s global dominance has been on a steady decline over the last few years thanks to the substantial growth and popularity of their rivals. Realizing that Symbian might not be able to survive today’s market, Nokia has adopted Microsoft’s mobile platform in an attempt to compete.
Just a few weeks ago a leaked image surfaced of what is possible the Nokia Sea Ray, which many expect to me the manufacturer’s first Windows Phone powered handset. A combination of the young yet polished Windows Phone opera...
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Dell 'very' in step with Windows 8, disappointed by Android
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Dell's founder Michael Dell used his own Dell World conference as an unusual platform for talking down Android while putting faith in Windows 8. While he pledged loyalty to Microsoft and said the company was "very aligned" with it, he said Google's OS had "not developed to the expectations" Dell had. Steve Felice, president of the consumer division, tried to minimize the company's lack of success, claiming that the Streak tablets, Aero, and Venue phones were shipped in small numbers to "see customer reaction and behavior."
To support his view, the CEO went on to make the paradoxical claim that his company's primary business, hardware, wasn't important. Dell provides enterprise-grade service...
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New Error on Marketplace – 805A01f4
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Windows Phone users are not new to errors when trying to use the app marketplace. Especially in the last few months errors and service interruptions have been common occurrences. Unfortunately there may be a brand new error affecting the marketplace. Users have been reporting an error code 805a01f4 when trying to download applications from the Windows Phone marketplace during the last few weeks.
I myself have been affected irregularly since the beginning of the week. A Microsoft Answers page for the error started up on the first of the month and is the first reference to the error that I have been able to find on the web. Most of those who have been affected, it seems, have been since ...
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How Microsoft Reduces Memory Use in Windows 8
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For the second time in Windows history, a new release of Windows will not increase its memory system requirements, but rather it will remain the same or even go down. Windows 7 required a minimum of 1 GB, the same as Windows Vista, which also asked for 1 GB. Windows 8 is likely to stay at that level or even drop slightly as the OS apparently is much more considerate when acquiring available memory resources.
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Windows Phone Chief Criticizes Android and iPhone 4S
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In an interview with The Seattle Times, Andy Lee, president of Microsoft's Windows Phone division, took a few potshots at the competition while talking up his company's Mango platform. Mango, or Windows Phone 7.5, was introduced to some existing Windows Phone users last month and introduces 500 new features. But is it better than the competition?
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Microsoft Improves The Guidance For Developers To Port Apps From iOS And Android To Windows Phone
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Microsoft has been working on several fronts to port various apps from other platforms to Windows Phones. They provided us with the guidance, API mapping tools, etc for porting apps from Symbian, iOS and Android platforms. Today Windows Phone developer team announced about their improved guidance to port apps along with some new tools to do them.
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Nokia putting in Windows phone orders from Foxconn also
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Last we heard Nokia would be using Compal as an ODM for the Nokia Searay.
Now Digitimes reports that Nokia has begun releasing its orders for Windows Phone 7.5-based smartphones to both Foxconn International Holdings and Compal Communications.
This is pretty good news for prospective Nokia customers, as Foxconn, who famously also ODMs the iPhone, has a reputation for high quality, unlike Compal who frankly does not.
While there is no way of knowing, given that the Searay was connected with Compal, it may be that the Nokia Sabre or Nokia Ace will be made by Foxcon instead, and represent a somewhat better device, irrespective of specs.
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