Blown Away By Lumia

So its Nokia blowing all the phones which are having much more hardware config.

A small and a best nokia add .........:P

Now are you adapting to windows phone 7 or stick with dumb smart phones ???.   

Apple Co-Founder: Windows Phone 7.5 ‘More Beautiful’ Than iOS, Android

Steve Wozniak recently had some kind words to say about Windows Phone 7.5. The Apple co-founder stated Microsoft’s mobile product is better than Android, and most surprisingly, offers a better app experience than both Android and iOS, according to PC Magazine.
In surprising comments recently made to A New Domain’s Dan Patterson, Gina Smith, and Todd Moore, Wozniak says Windows Phone 7 beats Android in terms of “looks and beauty.” So much so, he would recommend Microsoft’s product over Android.
When speaking specifically of the new Nokia Lumia 900, which comes with Windows Phone 7, Wozniak states:

“I’m kind of shocked on every screen — much more beautiful than the same apps on Android and iPhone. “

Wozniak’s most glowing comment for Microsoft is when he stated:

“I also surmised that Steve Jobs might have been reincarnated at (Microsoft) due to a lot of what I see and feel with this phone making me think of a lot of great Apple things.”

As The New York Times recently noted, Microsoft has been underwriting developers’ costs for building Windows Phone apps. In other words, apps that would have cost developers $60,000 to $600,000 to create were 100 percent supported by Microsoft.
Does this matter? Absolutely not. In fact, kudos to Microsoft for creating a mobile OS that received praise from an Apple co-founder. Perhaps Wozniak’s comments will cause Cupertino to rethink iOS 6.0 and make it even better than we know it will be.
Finally, it’s worth noting that despite Wozniak’s comments, the “number-one phone in his geeky heart” remains the iPhone.
Are you surprised by Wozniak’s comments?

Some glance on visual studio 2011

                    Visual Studio 11 Beta

With Microsoft readying a beta version of Visual Studio 11, the next major upgrade to the company's IDE, developers are interested in HTML5 backing as well as in basic functional fixes. Visual Studio 11, available as a developer preview since last month, is set to feature accommodations for the upcoming Windows 8 OS, as well as the Windows Azure cloud computing platform, along with capabilities such as code cloning and enhanced unit testing. No release date is yet scheduled.
"I do like the HTML5 stuff they're showing and also some of the intelligence enhancements they have for CSS [Cascading Style Sheets] 3," says Joel Padot, a developer at Florida Farm Bureau Insurance. His company is looking at HTML5 and Web applications as way to support mobile devices. (HTML5 features are planned for the HTML editor in Visual Studio 11.) Padot also praised code review capabilities planned for the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server application lifecycle management server.
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But Microsoft's IDE could use some basic functional improvements, says Funmi Bajomo, a software developer at Ledge Light Technologies, which does custom software development: "Visual Studio 2010 has a tendency to freeze a lot. You have to reset your computer quite often to get it to run properly." She hopes Visual Studio 11 fixes that issue.
Bajomo also questions Visual Studio's pricing and upgrade cycle. Her company spent more than $10,000 for five developers to use the current version, which was released in April 2010. Microsoft releases a new version about every two years. "In this economy, do we really want to be asked to actually pay for another version so soon?" she asks rhetorically.
Stacy Shaw, a developer at aerospace firm Triumph Structures, is happy about the promised deeper tie-ins between Visual Studio 11 and Microsoft SharePoint collaboration platform: "I think it's going to be a lot easier to develop." Shaw also is looking forward to better ease-of-use in Visual Studio 11 and wants better compliance with standards such as HTML5 and CSS.
Ease-of-use is one of Microsoft's focus areas, says Cameron Skinner, Microsoft's general manager for Visual Studio Ultimate. "How do we just remove some of the complexities in the environment itself and keep you guys focused on the job at hand?" is the question Microsoft's developers were asked to address. Thus, Visual Studio 11 requires fewer tool bars and tool windows to get a job done, he says.

Windows U Crew Tour In Lpu

The tour of Microsoft windows 7 u crew division was awesomely held at our college .We had lots of fun and lots of goodies had been distributed during the event .
There was so much crowd who attended to our sessions  and they got to know about so many technologies like windows(7,8) ,Skydrive, Xbox-kinect, Windows Live essentials , and the main part metro applications and windows phone apps .
Thanks to other(renu and apoorv) crew members who helped in this event.