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  • How to watch our Windows Phone 8 event

    Curious what’s going to happen Monday at our press event in San Francisco? Tune into the webcast and find out. You can watch the live stream, which is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Pacific, on either the Microsoft News Center or our Facebook page, where you can also see what people are tweeting about…

  • Getting websites ready for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows Phone 8

    As we announced in June, Windows Phone 8 will ship with Internet Explorer 10 – the same advanced web browsing engine that powers Windows 8. We’ll have much more to say about Internet Explorer 10 soon. The goal of today’s post is to help developers start getting their sites ready for Internet Explorer 10. What’s…

  • Tips for using ads in your Windows Phone apps

    Windows Phone developers have three basic ways to make money from their apps: paid app sales, mobile advertising, and in-app purchases (coming in Windows Phone 8). Last month I wrote about my approach to paid apps, and how to take advantage of the Windows Phone Dev Center’s new country-by-country pricing and analysis features. Today I’ll…

  • Future proofing your apps

    How do you ensure that an app built for an earlier release of Windows Phone continues to work great on Windows Phone 8? Whether you participate in the SDK preview program Todd Brix talked about today or not, here are some tips for future proofing your apps and readying them for the next release of…

  • Announcing the Nokia Lumia 820 and 920

    These are exciting times for Windows Phone. In June we showed the first glimpses of Windows Phone 8, our most ambitious release ever. Then Samsung last week unveiled its first Windows Phone 8 device, the sleek ATIV S. Today, everyone here was glued to their screens watching Nokia show off its two gorgeous next-generation Lumias…

  • Connaitre son taux de transformation version d’essai/version payante

    Comme vous le savez sûrement, le app hub Windows Phone Developper Center a été mis à jour il y a quelques jours. En plus d’une ergonomie et une rapidement revu à la hausse, pas mal de nouvelles fonctionnalités ont été discrètement ajoutées. Parmi celle-ci, je retiendrais une nouveauté qui est plutôt intéressante lorsque vous souhaitez…

  • Un brevet pour migrer des applications Android/iOS sur Windows Phone

    Selon un brevet déposé par Microsoft en novembre 2010, Microsoft travaillerait sur un service qui permettrait de migrer les applications et leurs données d’un périphérique à un autre, voire même entre différents systèmes d’exploitation mobiles.  Le service pourrait fonctionner de cette manière :  il analyse quelles sont les applications installées sur un autre téléphone (Android…

  • Delivering Rich Mobile Web Experiences in Windows Phone 7.5 (ESPN.com Case Study)

    The Windows Phone Browser team has a goal of delivering the best web browsing experience on a smartphone. This goal has many components within our team: from the UI of the browser, compatibility with a wide array of website layouts, and of course buttery-smooth rendering performance. However, even if we execute flawlessly on our end,…

  • Hackathon Windows Phone 7

      Microsoft organise un WE (gratuit !) de folie autour de Windows Phone 7 (et Azure). Dans une super ambiance (style UCPA), venez coder avec nous dans une super lieu (tout frais payés) On code mais pas que : sauna, piscine, échasses, vélos,ping-pong, barque, visite des lieux en 4×4, tennis !!!! Nous vous proposons 2…

  • Tellme on Windows Phone vs Siri on iPhone

    In a Forbes interview with Microsoft’s Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, he contended that comparing Siri on the iPhone 4S and Tellme on Windows Phones are much alike. Craig says, At least from a technological capability you could argue Microsoft has had a similar capability in Windows Phone for more than a year……