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This looks like a rushed poor mockup of an idea, and not images of an actual design from Microsoft

2 days ago on A new Bing design? 1 reply

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New Xbox Console, and the promise of Xbox Music showing up on iOS and Android – will give them the opportunity to launch it to a wider audience.

3 days ago on MS should probably just give up in the consumer space 2 replies

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quick work, and funny – if a little disingenuous.

Not a fan of these kind of attack ads

3 days ago on Leaked Scroogled video sees Microsoft parody Google's Chrome ad 5 replies 53 recommends

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And perhaps taking it to court will expose more of Google’s hypocrisy and that may be worth the exercise for Microsoft. But I am sure they will come to terms and settle things.

3 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 2 recommends

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Microsoft believes so, and even brought the complaint to the EU

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 4 recommends

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Because whilst Google talk about hating patents, they tried to use the patents they brought with Motorola to exact some punitive damage to Microsoft.

They tried to get Microsoft to pay tens of billions for patents deemed to be essential and standards, which are legally obliged to be offered to the whole industry at fair rates.

The courts decided they should pay a few million for them, very much lower than Motorola wanted.

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply 6 recommends

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Not demanding an app, just asking if they can have access to the tools which are already there to make their own app work in a way which allows them to abide by the T&Cs

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 22 recommends

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Yea its gone 4 a.m. here also, and I am not trying to say Microsoft is a Saint, and Google is Evil. I am just saying Microsoft has a point, and Google say one thing, and are doing another in this particular instance.

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 6 recommends

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What whining? Google promote their services as being open and available everywhere. Is it wrong to question their sincerity when they do things which do not match the values they publicly espouse on stage in front of thousands and millions of people?

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 2 replies 24 recommends

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Yes I know, I am still using Windows Phone 7 so the version of the YouTube app for my phone, has not been released yet. I use the current app, which takes me to the mobile app. So I am well aware of what my options are.

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 3 recommends

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Google doesn’t seem to grasp property rights if their track record is to be considered

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply 12 recommends

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Because Microsoft ensures anyone who accesses the web apps, get a similar experience. And when Office for iOS, Android, Windows RT, etc is launched, then hopefully they will all get a similar experience

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply 8 recommends

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Plus with Windows RT being released with Desktop Apps, perhaps they want to launch all the mobile versions of Office together when they are all ready.

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply

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We know Office is coming, so it’s not as if they are denying it. Plus they took steps so that Office Web Apps work for Andorid and iOS devices.

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply 9 recommends

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They also tend to fight for your rights to privacy more than other big internet companies.

This has been the way Microsoft have been behaving of late. Raising concerns about GMail, Setting express IE options for Do Not Track in favour of the users, and arguing about unfair treatment Windows Phone users have been getting from Google to the EU.

if you want to use Google services in full glory, buy an android device

If this is what Google wants, they should stop talking about Openness and Interoperability, and there services being everywhere, and instead be honest and say “we want you to enter our world, and we will treat you best here”

You’d find it preposterous if Sony suddenly started complaining about MS not letting it publish Halo.

Rumours are Sony is trying to kick up a stink about allowing Microsoft’s new Xbox to use Blu-Ray because they run the consortium which controls the spec and licensing.

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply 5 recommends

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They told them to abide by the T&Cs whilst ignoring other apps which do the same, as well as refusing Microsoft the ability to provide an app which does abide by the T&Cs when they did so for Apple in the early days of iPhone

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply 8 recommends

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yes but the mobile web experience of YouTube is not on par with the experience Google offers on other rival platforms.

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply 19 recommends

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With so many fanboys defending him, and geeks who love anything new and techy – Google don’t need to portray themselves much at all.

Its the talk of openness and standards, whilst at the same time:

• Replacing WebKit in Chrome for something proprietary.
• Closing off YouTube APIs.
• Shutting down services others had built themselves on
• Abruptly ending support for EAS in favour of CardDAV and CalDAV, and then ditching CalDAV for something propriatary
• Buying a company and not putting a stop to outrageous patent claims when it is supposedly against the company’s ethos
• Making use of technologies owned by others without doing due diligence in ensuring you had properly licensed it. (not just Microsoft, but Java also)
• Promote APIs which offer restrictive versions of private APIs whilst talking about interoperability
• Deliberately ensure the users of a rival platform/s are given an inferior experience of a service unless there is a reasonable technical reason why that is the case. (Google+ on Windows Phone is unusable)

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply 8 recommends

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During E3 announcements and public events, EA promised “unprecedented support” for Nintendo and the Wii U platform. And many games were close to complete which were suddenly dropped. And the story was very different.

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it

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It is all rumour, but it seems to fit with what has happened since.

http://wiiudaily.com/2012/08/ea-origin-wii-u/

Reportedly, Nintendo was in talks with several third parties to improve the Wii U’s online capabilities, and EA was one of them. However, the talks broke down when EA wanted all of Wii U’s online network — including the Nintendo Network — to be run through its Origin system. As expected, Nintendo walked out of the negotiations after such outrageous demands by EA.

4 days ago on Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads if Google allows it 1 reply

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This is supported on Android phones, they auto upload to Google+ and they can be set to be private.

Speaking of Google+
The experience on Windows Phone is absolutely broken, and Google do not care enough to make it useable.

4 days ago on Google has Microsoft by the balls and there's not much it can do in return.