The U.S. Army is currently conducting several six week tests of the three most popular mobile operating systems, namely iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
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During the World Partner Conference, Microsoft announced that their Windows Phone Marketplace now has over 22,000 applications, and they also unveiled several new Windows Phone devices.
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Microsoft has released Windows Live Essentials 2011 with improved performance and SSL support for Windows Live Mail. There build for this update is 15.4.3538.0513. The 2011 essentials update brings enhancements to photo uploading in Mail, improved voice and video quality in Live Messenger and address issues regarding crashes in Photo Gallery.
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A trusted source has reported that Microsoft is planning a Windows 8 RTM release in April 2012. There is a strong possibility of this rumor coming true as Microsoft wants to grab a piece of the fast growing tablet market as soon as possible with Windows 8 based tablets. In a recent conference, Microsoft has already unveiled the new WIndows 8 UI, which is based on Windows Phone 7 Metro interface. The company’s representatives also talked about their future plans of revealing more about it at the BUILD conference scheduled for September 2011.
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Today, Microsoft has released the first beta of Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit. The SDK, also described as the “starter kit” is available for download in both 32-bit an 64-bit versions and includes Kinect drivers for Windows, sample codes and APIs. Microsoft wants to encourage development and creation of new academic and entertainment experiences by researchers and enthusiasts using the Xbox 360‘s motion sensor on the Windows platform. A commercial Kinect for Windows SDK is also in the pipeline, says a Microsoft representative.
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Today in Taiwan, Microsoft showed off it’s newest Operating System, Windows 8. Microsoft demoed it’s newest OS to hardware vendors who would be building the new hardware to support Microsoft’s new project.
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Even though the next big update to Microsoft’s Windows OS codenamed “8″ is scheduled for release in late 2012 or early 2013, it seems these dates would need re-adjustment keeping in view the rate which all these builds are leaking out. Just over a weak ago, build 7955 of Windows 8 was leaked and today build 7959 is floating all over the web. This build which is reported to be extremely buggy, is the first 64-bit M3 (Milestone 3) build of server type that has been leaked. The download size for the build is roughly 2.87GB.
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Microsoft has created a tool called the iOS to Windows Phone 7 API Mapping Tool to make it easy for iOS developers to port their apps over to the Windows Phone 7 platform. This would allow developers the tools to make that happen, and help both the developer and Microsoft in the end. Microsoft adds more apps to it’s store, which is expected to pass up Blackberry’s App World within a year, and give developers more presence as well.
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A handy little app, previously available only for Mac OS, has now been ported to Windows platform too. Its called ipswDownloader and as the name clearly implies, it lets you grab the iOS firmware files (.ipsw) for your iPhone, iPod or iPad directly from Apple with just a single click. No need to google around for your required iOS / firmware / version. Simply select your device name, choose the required firmware version and hit download!
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