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One of the best music videos I’ve seen in a while… really good song too!
Class! Pure Class!
I had been thinking that I would really like to get myself a new, solid, smartphone in the new year. I want something that I can use for everything – and the idea of Windows Mobile combined with Zune sounds very appealing indeed.
I will happily rush out to the store and buy one of these any day of the week! Bring it on!
So, we finally hear of something to up the bench mark against the iPhone and Google Android.
Steve Balmer confirmed today with CIO Magazine that Microsoft are to start making a Zune player for Windows Mobile. Excellent!
Today’s announcement that “the Zune software will be ported to and be more important not just with the hardware but on the PC, on Windows Mobile devices, etc”, is just great.
We see Microsoft gearing up for a much rounder media experience with additional ongoing development around the XNA Framework, wherein games will run on XBOX 360, Windows, Zune, and Windows Mobile. XNA Studio 3 (Still in Beta) is currently being re-geared to include support for Zune too – cool!
Will Zune features be available in Windows Mobile 7? Certainly CNET announced last week that Windows Mobile 7 has been seriously delayed… it sounds like they are possibly very busy at the drawing board right now.
I await in anticipation…
In the meantime… click here to check out cool Zune videos…
Anders Hejlsberg discusses the history, and the future direction of the awesome C# programming language…
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1149786074;pp;1
Today a new product from Microsoft; Hyper-V Server 2008, became available for download free of charge. This is the same Hyper-V technology available as a role in Windows Server 2008, but it’s important to understand that Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a stand-alone product. It operates with no GUI, which is similar to Windows Server 2008 running Server Core mode with the Hyper-V role. Of course any guest operating systems you host in Hyper-V it will require the appropriate license.
Just ordered myself XBOX Live Gold membership and wireless dongle…! Woo-Hoo. Gearing up for Far Cry 2 and Gears or War 2 in the next few months, but also quite looking forward to getting to play some of the GTA IV online gaming…
