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Microsoft Kills Kin
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| Just six weeks after launch, Microsoft's
| Kin, the social phone we wanted to love,
| is dead. Microsoft is ending its short
| life, sources close to Microsoft tell us.
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http://gizmodo.com/5576764/microsoft-kills-kin
Confirmed: Microsoft Kin is dead
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| Disappointing sales have led Microsoft to
| cancel its Kin mobile phone initiative a
| little more than a month after the company
| launched the devices, according to sources
| close to the company.
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http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/06/confirmed_microsoft_kin_is_dead.html
Ding dong, the Microsoft Kin is dead
http://www.neowin.net/news/ding-dong-the-microsoft-kin-is-dead
Windows 8 â A secret leak? ;) and what happens when Microsoft innovates? Failure?
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| Not one person involved in the Kin project
| turned around and said âhang on folks,
| isnât this Kin a bit of a pig?â apparently
| not since it was thrown into the market
| which was hungry for other products.
|
| It is also rumoured that Zune (the ipod
| beater that never was) may go the same
| route, which leads onto another important
| point.
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/windows-8-a-secret-leak-and-what-happens-when-microsoft-innovates-failure/
Recent:
Microsoft Kin ad encourages you to send moob shots to girls
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| Consumer Reports is calling out Microsoft
| (NSDQ: MSFT) for its Kin ads because itâs
| âcreepyâ that one ad apparently shows some
| hip dudester sending pictures of his chest
| to some equally hip lady.
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http://www.intomobile.com/2010/04/15/microsoft-kin-ad-encourages-you-to-send-moob-shots-to-girls.html
Microsoft Kin upshirt ad called 'creepy'
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| I'm sure there are few people left in the
| world who have not, at one time or another,
| sent a picture of their most favorable body
| parts to someone they loved. Or at least
| coveted. Or at least knew. I am, therefore,
| moved to photograph the frothing in my
| brain caused by the controversy surrounding
| a video for Microsoft's new Kin phones
| aimed at young social-networking hipsters.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20002585-71.html
Microsoft KIN Phones Strictly For Kids
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/portable/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224300026
Can Kin, Windows Phone 7 Series Rescue Redmond?
http://www.enterprisemobiletoday.com/news/article.php/3876231/Can-Kin-Windows-Phone-7-Series-Rescue-Redmond.htm
Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 won't arrive 'feature complete'
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/microsoft-windows-phone-7-wont-arrive-feature-complete/2010-04-11
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
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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