We’re by 2 days of hurdles at the South Coast and Mission Viejo Microsoft Stores, and Windows Phone is sporting a 37-0 jot down opposite a little of the most appropriate smartphones in the business.  We’ve taken on the iPhone 3G, 4 and 4s, along with a outrageous spectrum of Android phones together with the DROID Charge, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy S and S II, HTC EVO 4G and EVO 3D, LG Thrill, Samsung Fascinate, HTC MyTouch 4G, LG Optimus V, HTC Sensation, Motorola Atrix and more.

Today you hang up the debate at the San Diego Microsoft Store, where we’ll be display because Windows Phone is simply faster at the things which genuine people do on their phones from 1-7pm.  Come by and contend hi – or try your fitness in the plea – if you’re in town. 

And remember, be certain to follow me on Twitter for real-time updates on the action!

19-0!

That was Windows Phone’s jot down opposite the foe in the $ 100 plea which we hosted yesterday at the South Coast Microsoft Store.  It was a good day of hurdles – we took on iPhone 4 and 4s’s and a horde of the ultimate Android inclination similar to the Samsung Galaxy Skyrocket, Samsung Galaxy S II, Galaxy Nexus, LG Thrill, HTC Evo 4G, Motorola Atrix, Samsung Fascinate, and some-more – and opposite all of them, Windows Phone was simply faster at the bland things which genuine people similar to we and me do on the smartphones. 

All in all, a unequivocally fun day.  We met a lot of cold people, handed out a garland of phones and overwhelming "Smoked by Windows Phone” T-shirts, and welcomed a garland of latest members of the Windows Phone family.

Today we’re bringing the $ 100 plea to the Microsoft Store in Mission Viejo.  My organisation and I will be there from about 1-7pm. If you’re circuitously gloss up your smartphone skills, assign your battery, and see if we can win $ 100!

  And as always, be certain to follow me on Twitter for real-time updates on the movement and for a heads up on where we’ll be next.

19-0!

That was Windows Phone’s jot down opposite the foe in the $ 100 plea which we hosted yesterday at the South Coast Microsoft Store.  It was a good day of hurdles – we took on iPhone 4 and 4s’s and a horde of the ultimate Android inclination similar to the Samsung Galaxy Skyrocket, Samsung Galaxy S II, Galaxy Nexus, LG Thrill, HTC Evo 4G, Motorola Atrix, Samsung Fascinate, and some-more – and opposite all of them, Windows Phone was simply faster at the bland things which genuine people similar to we and me do on the smartphones. 

All in all, a unequivocally fun day.  We met a lot of cold people, handed out a garland of phones and overwhelming "Smoked by Windows Phone” T-shirts, and welcomed a garland of latest members of the Windows Phone family.

Today we’re bringing the $ 100 plea to the Microsoft Store in Mission Viejo.  My organisation and I will be there from about 1-7pm. If you’re circuitously gloss up your smartphone skills, assign your battery, and see if we can win $ 100!

  And as always, be certain to follow me on Twitter for real-time updates on the movement and for a heads up on where we’ll be next.

Ah, California…

Land of sun, sand, movie stars, good vineyards. And starting today, Smoked by Windows Phone!

We took over CES 2012 in Las Vegas, and right away we’re bringing the $ 100 plea to Microsoft Stores opposite southern California.  We’re kicking things off  currently at the South Coast Plaza Microsoft Store in Costa Mesa, CA.  My organisation and I will be there from 2pm to 8pm.   Here’s how to get there if you’re internal and wish to come contend hi or take the challenge:

You know the understanding by now.  If your phone can kick Windows Phone in a head-to-head speed plea on a usual charge which genuine people do each day on their smartphones and we get $ 100 cash, right on the spot. If your phone loses…

Be certain to follow me on Twitter for real-time updates on the movement and for a heads up on where we’ll be next.  See we in Sunny California!

GLOBAL - This time subsequent year, we could be a millionaire diversion developer – with the right thought and a small assistance from a male called Aaron Reed.

The module operative –  from at Neumont University nearby Salt Lake City, Utah –
has created a book on building games for Windows Phones and he reckons the total routine is flattering easy.

To set up games for Xbox 360 and Windows Phone, we need to sense Microsoft’s XNA 4.0 growth framework. And this book claims we can sense that—even if we have no knowledge of building games. There’s additionally copiousness of assistance from Microsoft at the Xbox developer site (above).

Says Aaron: “For the initial time in history, developers can write games for PC, a subsequent era console similar to the Xbox 360 and a subsequent era smartphone similar to Windows Phone all with the same formula base.

“The gaming attention is sepulchral and continues to grow. With hardware advances being done every day and the pull toward mobile inclination apropos some-more absolute and interactive, the attention is as sparkling as ever.”

Beginners will find multiform XNA pass concepts tough to sense though the book, called  Learning XNA 4.0 (O’Reilly Media), walks we by any step.

Each section takes the form of a lesson, finish with diagrams, examples and exercises. There have been additionally tests to check which we get any theatre of the program.

You can sense growth from 2D existence to 3D cameras and effects, have a demeanour at high-level shader denunciation (HLSL) and set up 3 games regulating 2D, 3D, and multiplayer techniques.

OK, it competence not have we a millionaire, though it could assistance we get a latest job.

The Interactive Design Association (IxDA) only voiced the winners of the initial annual Interaction Award—and we’re anxious which Windows Phone 7.5 has picked a single up. Here’s the central endowment citation.

My friend Steve Clayton over on the always-fascinating Next at Microsoft blog additionally reported the IxDA news—and enclosed a YouTube video value checking out. As Steve notes, it’s not the initial large pattern esteem the mobile handling complement has taken home.

Windows Phone is off to a good begin this year. Nokia’s beautiful Lumia 900 prisoner the desired Best of CES 2012 endowment for smartphones final month. There’s additionally been a flurry of good reviews and press lately.

And only think—it’s only February.

The Interactive Design Association (IxDA) only voiced the winners of the initial annual Interaction Award—and we’re anxious which Windows Phone 7.5 has picked a single up. Here’s the central endowment citation.

My friend Steve Clayton over on the always-fascinating Next at Microsoft blog additionally reported the IxDA news—and enclosed a YouTube video value checking out. As Steve notes, it’s not the initial large pattern esteem the mobile handling complement has taken home.

Windows Phone is off to a good begin this year. Nokia’s beautiful Lumia 900 prisoner the desired Best of CES 2012 endowment for smartphones final month. There’s additionally been a flurry of good reviews and press lately.

And only think—it’s only February.

Microsoft is a immeasurable place, and I’m all the time stumbling opposite engaging things alternative folks around the association have been operative on or meditative about.

Case in point: A post currently from Josh Henretig of Microsoft’s Environmental Sustainability team. 

Josh not long ago combed Marketplace seeking for planet-friendly apps and apps which can assistance foster immature thinking. Even if this isn’t things we consider about often, I gamble you’ll still find a integrate engaging apps value downloading. He’s found apps for saving gas, apps for environmental news, apps for recycling info—even an app for stating someone who dumps paint down the charge drain. Only caveat: Some of these apps have been accessible only in sure countries. Check out his list.

Some people write apps for fun. Others for cash.

Then there’s Wilson To, a 25-year-old University of California grad tyro who’s building an app to spin a Windows Phone in to a arms opposite disease. His target: malaria, that kills thousands of immature young kids in sub-Saharan Africa any year.

Today Microsoft awarded To and 3 alternative tyro groups operative on life-altering tech projects $ 75,000 to assistance them commercialize their work or take it to the subsequent theatre of development.

The awards, voiced this sunrise at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, have been partial of the initial Imagine Cup Grants program—a latest three-year, $ 3 million appendage of the company’s renouned Imagine Cup tyro record competition, right away in the 10th year.

All of the winning projects voiced currently have been impressive—just take a demeanour at the Imagine Cup blog and you’ll see what I mean. One Croatian group used Kinect to assistance kids with intelligent palsy.  Combining Windows and a Wii-mote, a group from Jordan done it probable for people who have been inept to operate a mechanism and phone.

But, as we competence expect, the 2 winning projects involving Windows Phones quite held my eye.

The initial comes from Falcon Dev, a tyro group formed in Ecuador that’s operative on creation a Windows Phone interpret debate in to pointer denunciation for kids who have been conference impaired, something they’ve already completed on a Windows PC. The plan is called SkillBox—but we have to see the video to conclude how cold it unequivocally is.

And in the future there’s the Lifelens plan led by Wilson To.  Using a done to order app and a little lens scrounged from an aged CD player, he and his group have done it probable for a Windows Phone to diagnose malaria from a dump of blood. (The appendage lens can increase red red red red blood cells 350 times.) Watch the video next or check out this new Forbes press review for specifics. There have been already poor and correct red red red red blood tests for malaria available. But the group thinks a tech-based exam still has advantages: Lifelens is being written to map reliable cases and broadcast real-time formula to open illness workers, potentially assisting them lane malaria cases some-more effectively.

Next stairs for To and company: a snap-on box containing the micro-lens. They’re additionally formulation to control some-more lab tests this summer, followed by margin contrast someday later. As Business Week reported final year, To in the future hopes to have his app able of noticing alternative blood-borne scourges, such as sickle cell anemia.

“Malaria is only the beginning,” he told the magazine.

GLOBAL – Windows Phone executive Joe Belfiore is unapproachable of the courtesy to item in the Windows Phone program on the Nokia Lumia family of phones.

“Have we seen the countenance on the face of the content idol when we embrace a lot of texts?” he asks.

“No,” I say. “I substantially don’t get as many texts as you.”

He taps the shade of his Nokia Lumia 800 and the tiles light up instantly, only similar to the unapproachable father countenance on his face.

It’s similar to he’s asked his kid to perform the guitar piece for a single person from Stairway to Heaven after weeks of practice, and he knows it’s starting to be good.

“Ah, I can’t uncover we right now, cos I haven’t got loads of texts. Quick, send me a small texts, he asks his open family aide.

She duly starts drumming divided on her phone. “Sorry Joe, I can’t get a signal,” she says. Well this is a tech uncover and we have been low inside the Venetian road house in Vegas at CES, so it’s understandable.

Joe looks despondent for a second and says: “Well, we get a astounded demeanour on the icon. It’s unequivocally cool. Right right divided we’re removing an unfortunate face since there’s a complaint with the signal.”

As corporate clamp boss and executive of Windows Phone Program Management, Joe Belfiore is obliged for the pattern of Windows Phones software. And he’s dedicated to creation it a fun knowledge with all the small details. Like the a single where we shake up the phone with the Xbox avatar on shade and it falls over.

Joe is the Windows sorceress who helped to have Windows XP such a success after receiving a lead purpose in the growth of the Windows 95 interface.

It’s an extraordinary career when we cruise which he assimilated Microsoft true from Stanford University in 1990.

So he was the full of health preference when it came to structure the Windows Phone pattern which we see on Nokia Lumia phones today.

“The many critical thing about it is which it has firmness by the total experience,” says Joe. “If we do a search, or we do email, or we have a phone call, or we take a picture, there’s a continuity, a predictability and fibre in the total thing.

“I unequivocally similar to the visible pattern being opposite than what’s out there currently and I similar to the actuality which it’s an interface which grows on we since it’s concurrently infallible and whimsical.

“We have a illusory pattern team. There’s a organisation of people who outlay their waking and additionally substantially additionally their sleeping hours meditative about the visible aspects of report design. How do we operate typography? How do we operate suit and animation? We even have specialists at suit and animation.”

But carrying shining designers is not enough, if we don’t have the engineers to have it happen.

“One of the things that’s singular about the Windows Phone organisation for me is which we have been in a incident where we can integrate those extraordinary pattern thinkers with engineers who have been ardent about structure those designs.

“There’s a good collaborative, positive, full of health attribute in between those 2 teams, pattern and engineering.

“When we have which full of health arrange of inventive partnership afterwards what we see in the product is soulful and alive and engaging.

“I consider we have been advantageous which we have which today.”

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When asked about what would interest to the American assembly about the Nokia Lumia 900, Joe said: “I consider there have been a lot of people who have been starting to similar to the distance of the shade and the front confronting camera is starting to be appealing. 

 “And the pleasing design, I should substantially discuss which right up front. If we travel in to a phone store today, we see a lot of phones which have been OK.

“There aren’t unequivocally a lot of phones which mount out with craftsmanship and beauty in their pattern and I consider the Nokia Lumia 900 will do that.”