On Wednesday screenshots of Windows Mobile 7 appeared on several websites. The pictures show parts of the interface of the new OS from Microsoft, that is going to appear for the first time one smart phones next year.
Read MoreMicrosoft announced that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 are already avaiable to MSDN subscribers; general availability will follow on Oct. 21. The company also outlined a simplified product lineup and pricing options for Visual Studio 2010 as well as new benefits for MSDN subscribers, including the Ultimate Offer, available to all active MSDN Premium subscribers at the official product launch on March 22, 2010.
Just a day before Microsoft was to have retired Office 2004 for Mac by ending updates and fixes, including security patches, the company said that it would instead extend the five-year-old suite's support until Jan. 10, 2012.
Microsoft announced the availability of a new line of Windows phones around the world that are available in a broad range of styles and prices. With a Windows phone, people can navigate their phone easily with the touch of a finger and browse the Internet on a great mobile browser.
According to Net Applications, which tracks browser usage globally through a network of 40,000 Web sites and some statistical processing, IE slipped from 67 percent to 65.7 percent of users.
Read MoreThe launch of Zune “Wave 4,” which includes Zune HD, the first touch-screen version of Microsoft’s multimedia player, marks a significant shift in how the company will deliver music and video to consumers. How Zune will help consumers do that is through a combination of new hardware, software and services.
Read MoreMicrosoft officials said that the first Windows Mobile 6.5 phones would be available on October 6. As expected, Microsoft is also planning to launch its My Phone (”Skybox”) service for storing and accessing mobile-phone information and the new Windows Marketplace for Mobile online app store on the same day, as well.
Microsoft’s Interoperability Strategy Team released an open-source toolkit for PHP developers who want to use Microsoft’s ADO.Net Data Services (codename “Astoria”).
A US federal court has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m for wilfully infringing on a patent by Canadian firm i4i. The patent relates to the use of XML, a mark-up language that allows formatting of text and makes files readable across different programs.
Microsoft is about to release this month technical preview of their Web-based applications.
Office Web Apps will allow users to view and edit four Office apps from their PCs, phones or anywhere there is an Internet
Explorer 7 or 8 (on Windows), Safari 4 (on Mac) or Firefox 3.5 (on
Windows, Mac or Linux) installed.