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Windows Live Essentials 2011 beta refresh

 

Today we’re releasing an update to Windows Live Essentials 2011 beta. One of the main reasons we release betas is to allow early adopters to enjoy our products and provide feedback on their experience. First, we want to say thank you for your help. For Messenger alone, we had over 3 million unique users, 3.5 million updates to display pictures, 6.2 million video calls, and 7.6 million updates to status messages.

Your beta feedback and usage has helped shape the many improvements we’ve made and continue to make across Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Writer, Mail, and Family Safety. Today I’d like to summarize some of the more visible changes you’ll see in today’s update, and we’ll follow up with more details in later posts.

http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-beta

 

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Posted August 19, 2010 by Robert Smit in Mobile

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Full Bleed, No Chrome: Behind the Design of KIN

REDMOND, Wash. — April 12, 2010 — For Pioneer Studios creative director Jon Friedman, it’s not symphonies or sunsets that inspire great design. It’s the little things we work with every day.

“It’s the way we use garbage cans or soap dispensers,” says Friedman, who works in the Microsoft group named for Seattle’s Pioneer Square. “In every little problem there’s an opportunity for a better design, and a better experience.”

KIN TWO, left, features a high-resolution camera and enables users to shoot HD video; the compact KIN ONE, right, is small enough to easily fit into a pocket.

KIN TWO, left, features a high-resolution camera and enables users to shoot HD video; the compact KIN ONE, right, is small enough to easily fit into a pocket.

Click for high-res image

Friedman says that approach played a big role in Microsoft’s next generation of social phones, called KIN, which the company launched today. The new touch-screen phones combine a sleek, compact form factor with software that helps users discover, share and interact with friends and family online. The phones, available this spring through Verizon Wireless in the U.S. and later this year through Vodafone in Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K., let users organize and experience their social media feeds, video, messages and more, and share them with others as they choose.

KIN began, he says, with a lot of research to help understand today’s younger generation, which has grown up with social media embedded into the fabric of their lives. The research involved everything from usage statistics, to target-customer profiles, to a Web-based “consumer collaboration” group called project muse that involved some 2,000 volunteers

More :

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/apr10/04-12windowsphonelaunch.mspx

Posted April 14, 2010 by Robert Smit in KIN, Mobile

Full Bleed, No Chrome: Behind the Design of KIN

 

REDMOND, Wash. — April 12, 2010 — For Pioneer Studios creative director Jon Friedman, it’s not symphonies or sunsets that inspire great design. It’s the little things we work with every day.

“It’s the way we use garbage cans or soap dispensers,” says Friedman, who works in the Microsoft group named for Seattle’s Pioneer Square. “In every little problem there’s an opportunity for a better design, and a better experience.”

KIN TWO, left, features a high-resolution camera and enables users to shoot HD video; the compact KIN ONE, right, is small enough to easily fit into a pocket.

KIN TWO, left, features a high-resolution camera and enables users to shoot HD video; the compact KIN ONE, right, is small enough to easily fit into a pocket.

Click for high-res image

Friedman says that approach played a big role in Microsoft’s next generation of social phones, called KIN, which the company launched today. The new touch-screen phones combine a sleek, compact form factor with software that helps users discover, share and interact with friends and family online. The phones, available this spring through Verizon Wireless in the U.S. and later this year through Vodafone in Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K., let users organize and experience their social media feeds, video, messages and more, and share them with others as they choose.

KIN began, he says, with a lot of research to help understand today’s younger generation, which has grown up with social media embedded into the fabric of their lives. The research involved everything from usage statistics, to target-customer profiles, to a Web-based “consumer collaboration” group called project muse that involved some 2,000 volunteers

More :

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/apr10/04-12windowsphonelaunch.mspx

Posted April 14, 2010 by Robert Smit in Mobile

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