Download Windows Phone 8 Angry Birds Seasons
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:04 Written by admin Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:04
Windows Phone 8 users can head to the WP Store to grab the Seasons flavor of the old time favorite birds vs. pigs bonanza. Angry Birds Seasons is available for download for just $0.99. Link.
Microsoft testing own smartphone, 6 years too late
Last Updated on Friday, 2 November 2012 12:48 Written by admin Friday, 2 November 2012 12:48
Microsoft is hard at work with hardware manufacturers in Asia, testing its own smartphone, according to sources close to the company. I wouldn’t blame this piece of info leaking out on the rumor mill, since it came from WSJ.
Of course, that being somewhat of a hush-hush matter, there aren’t all that many details available. There’s really no big surprise however, that the Redmond giant selected to work with an Asian manufacturing partner, rather than building a device in-house. If Apple taught us anything, is that if underage Asians weren’t abused to build your smartphone or tablet, then you’re not cool enough.
Microsoft has worked with a number of smartphone manufacturers to bring Windows Phone to consumers worldwide, but thus far there’s barely any success to brag about. Despite this, the Redmond company has constantly resisted market pressure to create and sell its own Windows Phone device.
After all, Microsoft’s model involves selling software, not software and hardware. An immensely successful business model, that has kept the company atop of the IT industry for decades. Things are of course changing. The Redmond giant might be slow to adapt to the evolution we now see in terms of the new consumer form factors flooding stores, but it’s fair to say that it’s getting there.
Microsoft testing its own smartphone sounds perfectly plausible to me. After all, it’s common sense to explore different strategies. But the company has to do the testing with the realization that it’s no less than six years too late. Arguably even more.
Why 6 years? Because approximately 5 years ago Apple launched iPhone 1.0. The same device that CEO Steve Ballmer mocked publicly, saying that people WANT, but ABSOLUTELY WANT and NEED keyboards on their phones. Fast forward 5 years, and now Apple is selling enough iPhones in a year to build a mausoleum the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza dedicated to celebrating the “good old” and defunct Windows Mobile. Perhaps I exaggerate a tad, but you get the idea.
But what’s even worse than Microsoft only testing its own smartphone is that the company might not even launch such a device. Of course, if history is any indication, a Surface smartphone might just become reality, especially if Nokia Windows Phone devices continue to fly off store shelves at the same rate (surgically remove tongue in cheek).
Meet Steve Ballmer’s Windows Phone
Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 02:02 Written by admin Tuesday, 30 October 2012 02:02
You wouldn’t expect Microsoft’s CEO to be using an iPhone, would you? Watch the video embedded below, and you’ll get an introduction to Steve Ballmer’s very own Windows Phone device. Apparently, Bill Gates is “number 1 on the speed dial,” just in case good old Steve needed some advice.
The question now is, if you weren’t ready to embrace Windows Phone, is Steve Ballmer’s WP ad enough of a catalyst to make the jump? When was the last time when you asked yourself, what would Ballmer do?