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[News] [Rival] Windows Mobile Increasingly Lost

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Windows Mobile Increasingly Lost
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:21:24 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Oops! Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 beta expires

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5833

Microsoft sorry over quiet Office Mobile 2010 beta kill date

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| Microsoft has apologised to Windows Mobile 
| 6.5 users this week after it killed a beta 
| of Office Mobile 2010 some had been running 
| on their devices.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/08/windows_mobile_office_2010_beta_headache/

Losing Ground In Mobile Market, Microsoft Aims Both High And Low 

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=529485

Hey, Apple, Microsoft, mobile multitasking is a necessity

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| Context is key, particularly for 
| Millennials accustomed to doing many things 
| -- blogging, gaming, homework, listening to 
| music, social networking and watching 
| videos -- at once on PCs. Even more than 
| the PC, the smartphone is highly 
| contextual, with usage changing depending 
| on circumstance and often demanding 
| multiple functions or applications to be 
| available nearly simultaneously. 
| Gartenberg's turn-by-turn example is a good 
| one, if, say, the user is walking to a 
| destination, streaming from Pandora, 
| searching Google for the nearest coffee 
| shop, using location services to see if any 
| friends are nearby, but suddenly stopping 
| to snap a photo of a llama in the street 
| and then uploading it to Facebook and 
| Twitter. Multitasking mobile operating 
| systems make easier these kinds of rapidly 
| changing contextual scenarios.
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http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Hey-Apple-Microsoft-mobile-multitasking-is-a-necessity/1270577420


Recent:

Microsoft's Zune Misstep Marks the Gadget Road Not Taken

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| The Zune's failure sent the company down a
| very different path than Apple's. Jobs & Co.
| were able to use the iPod's success to launch
| the iPhone, and now the iPad. Microsoft's
| mobile OS has struggled against the mobile
| operating system Apple uses, probably because
| Redmond never had a cell phone of its own to
| carry Windows Mobile as a follow-on product
| to the Zune.
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http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/microsofts-zune-misstep-marks-the-gadget-road-not-taken/19424133/


Microsoft Kills Windows Phone 7's Series

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| Microsoft is not very confident about the
| coolness of the name of its newest operating
| system for mobile phones named Windows Phone
| 7 Series. The coolest name would have been
| WP7S! But Microsoft has decided to chop the
| word 'series' from the 'Windows Phone 7
| Series'. The phone will now be called Windows
| Phone 7.
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http://www.katonda.com/blog/961/microsoft-kills-windows-phone-7-series


Report: Microsoft Sued Over Zune Tagging

http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=1746800&spid=24698


A Software Bug may Kill You

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| In 1991, during the Gulf war, American
| Patriot missile was deployed to combat
| Iraqi scud missile. In one of the incident,
| Patriot missile missed the Scud and that
| resulted the death of 28 American soldiers
| and 100 others got injured. There was an
| arithmetic error during calculation which
| resulted inaccurate calculation since Boot.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoftâs Zune player stopped working on
| December 31, 2008 because of a simple
| software bug. The software was written in
| such a way that it would never terminate if
| the year is leap year and the total number
| of days is 366.
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http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-software-bug-may-kill-you/


Microsoft investigating disappearing music from Zune Pass

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| According to a post on the Zune Forums, owners
| of the Zune Pass are having a bit of trouble
| accessing the music they're paying for with
| their subscription, as first reported by
| Engadget. In less than two weeks, the thread
| in question has passed 50 replies as users
| complain and list what they can no longer
| access: specific songs, entire albums, or even
| everything produced by an artist.
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http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/microsoft-investigating-disappearing-music-from-zune-pass.ars
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