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East Asian Metro to feature vertical text, less clipping

8 years

Showing that Microsoft is looking to translate their Metro design language beautifully to as many locations as possible, Long Zheng reports that Metro for East Asian languages will feature subtle modifications to make it work in t...

Windows Phone 7 Mango will support 3rd party custom camera UI with camera button integration

by Surur

8 years

With the ability to have raw access to the camera feed also comes the ability to create a whole new custom UI for the camera. Unlike Apple which has banned an app for using the volume button as a hardware shutter button, Mic...

Contacts and Calendar database to be accessible on Mango, but with provisos

by Surur

8 years

Mango will bring many welcome changes, including the ability for 3rd party apps to access contacts and calendar information. As the graph shows above, not all data in the peopleâ€™s hub will be available, with non-Microsoft n...

More on Windows Phone 7 game ratings

by Surur

8 years

We have posted earlier about developers now being able to submit Mature-rated games in Mango. Of note is that it will not be up to Microsoft or the developer to rate a game, but that the rating will have to be from a recognized ou...

Double Sided Live Tiles, Deep Toast and more

by Surur

8 years

WPCentral have published a recording of Microsoft’s session on whatâ€™s new in Live Tiles on Mango. Most visually engaging is the new Double-sided tiles, which can now deliver twice the information and flip when an upda...

Background agents will be limited to 10% CPU and 5 MB memory

by Surur

8 years

One thing Microsoft emphasized over and over again at MIX 11 was the maintaining the user experience, despite the introduction of new features like multi-tasking. As part of this initiative Microsoft will be managing the new Backg...

Windows Phone 7 MIX 11 keynote recording now available

by Surur

8 years

Joe Belfioreâ€™s Windows Phone 7 keynote is now available to watch at your leisure on VisitMix.com. Engadget has done a good job of editing the 2 hours down to only 20 min, but the full version is also embedded af...

A new generation of Windows Phones with gyroscopes coming

by Surur

8 years

One of the new APIâ€™s supported in Microsoftâ€™s Motion SDK is gyroscopes, a technology not present in the current Windows Phone 7 Chassis 1 specification. In the developer Q&A after todayâ€™s MIX 11 keynote Mi...

MIX 11 Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight keynote – Live Blog

by Surur

8 years

Please join us below in our Live Blog of the second MIX 11 keynote, expected to feature more on Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight. MIX 11 Windows Phone 7 keynote

Microsoft installs a Wall of Apps at MIX 11

by Surur

8 years

MIX is a developer conference, so it is just appropriate that Microsoft celebrated the developers who have made Windows Phone 7 competitive by pouring thousands of apps into Marketplace. At MIX 11 Microsoft created a Wall of Apps ...

Mystery Windows Phone 7 MIX 11 sessions revealed

by Surur

8 years

session speaker day begin end Application Design for Windows Phone Megan Donahue 4/12 11:30 12:30 XNA Game Studio for Fun, Profit, Danger, Excitement and Windows Phone 7 Games Rob Miles 4/12 11:30 12:30 Expert Lessons: Top Tips to...

Metro makes the jump to Surface 2.0

by Surur

8 years

At MIX 11 Microsoft also showed of some new user-interface controls for the upcoming Surface 2.0 SDK. Like most of Microsoft’s new properties, the user interface shows clear Metro design inspiration, acknowledged by Luis C...