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WinExtra’s Daily Brief Episode 2 … capturing a double rainbowYesterday

This is getting posted a little later than I would like, or anticipated, but I chalk it up to getting my feet wet with all things video – mistakes are bound to be made and nothing will happen within the schedule one sets.

Anyway here it is – the second episode of Daily Brief with myself and Paul bringing you a round-up of Microsoft news of the day.

WinExtra Daily Brief Episode 1 … with less echoSeptember 1

Well we managed to get the echo problem figured out so unlike yesterdays’ promo for the show you should actually be able to hear the whole show.

Windows Phone 7 released to manufacturers – now comes the hard workSeptember 1

I can imagine that more than a few champagne corks are being popped right now at Redmond as word has come that after a lot of hard work Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturers. This means that handset makers can now start working on getting the final versions of their mobile handsets ready for launch day.

As Terry Myerson writes over on The Windows Blog

Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re very excited to say that we’ve reached the biggest milestone for our internal team – the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7!  While the final integration of Windows Phone 7 with our partners’ hardware, software, and networks is underway, the work of our internal engineering team is largely complete.

Windows Phone 7 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform Microsoft has ever released.  We had nearly ten thousand devices running automated tests daily, over a half million hours of active self-hosting use, over three and a half million hours of stress test passes, and eight and a half million hours of fully automated test passes.  We’ve had thousands of ind

Microsoft and Windows Round-up – 31.8.2010September 1

Running a little late getting this round-up out tonight as I’ve been heads down figuring out video type stuff in preparation for our new video show that will be launching Sept. 1st.

Microsoft:

• Microsoft, Who Supports Software Patents, Now Asks Supreme Court To Help It Against Patent Holder – Techdirt
  Microsoft, who has become a strongly pro-software patent company (despite Bill Gates’ old claim that patents would have harmed the software industry in the early days), is finding out (yet again) that such a stance can come back to bite you
• Microsoft Research takes a second look at multi-touch mice interaction – Long Zheng
  Bringing multi-touch technology to the desktop mice might seem trivial but Microsoft Research doesn’t just want to stop at a couple gestures
• Are routerless datacenters in Microsoft’s future? – Mary Jo Foley
  Microsoft Research is exploring a new way to connect servers directly to other servers, without the use of any switches or dedicated networking inside a datace
  

Announcing WinExtra’s new show – Daily BriefAugust 31

Yes folks, you can now get your daily dose of Microsoft and Windows headlines, with just a touch of snark, with myself and Paul O’Flaherty.