While Windows Phone 7 has many attributes that are worthy of praise, like every new phone line it does have its rough edges. For WP7, the roughest of all appears to be itsBluetooth support. In a long-running, and very long-windedforum discussionstarted last November, unhappy WP7 users have brought up poor Bluetooth support over and over again. This continued until yesterday when a Microsoft employee distilled the complaints into three categories which he reported “for further investigation....

By now it is common knowledge that the Kinect is amassively popular gadget. For many purchasers however, what it does right out of the box is only a sliver of what the motion sensor is capable of, and they are out to unlock its potential. Microsoftcould not be more pleased. In ablog postthis morning, the Redmond behemoth responded to the extensive and pervasive hacking of the Kinect as something that they are, in fact, enthused about:...

Inside the Mango update to the Windows Phone 7 platform is support for 17 new languages, one of which is Japanese. In preparation for that upgrade, Microsoft Japan today launched a website to inform customers about Mango, and Windows Phone 7 in general. Other newly supported languages are: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish. You can visit the sitehere, or simply imbibe the following screenshot:...

Wording used in anew job postingon Microsoft’s Careers website advertising for a new Software Development Engineer to become part of its Windows Phone division has highlighted a new “top secret project” which the Redmond-based company is already touting as “market disrupting”. The job listing, added to the Microsoft website on Sunday, asks for applicants that want to “create experiences our customers simply can’t live without” to begin work on a new Windows Phone feature set that it hopes to start developing in one month....

Microsoft’s bullish run has continued as the companyentered the ultra-exclusive $2 trillion club.The company reacheda $1 trillion market capforthe first time in 2019 — which means it took just two years to double that figure. In the last quarter, the companyposted a record revenue of $41.7 billionwith 19% year-on-year growth. Its profit for that quarter was $15.5 billion — a 44% jump from 2020. While most verticles from 2019, remain the same, the company’s cloud offerings have consistently shown tremendous expansion....