My new Windows Phone app: Balloon Battle
It’s a game! I am happy to have it finally accepted in the market place! This app has been really fun to develop and to create, since it’s a game and it’s my first game. Here’s the link:...
View ArticleStreaming youtube videos from Surface RT to Xbox TV
Wow, that was a tough one. I must say this is the kind of issue where Microsoft, according to me, totally deserves their reputation and current lack of success. So, to the point: I was at a friend the...
View ArticleChanging TextBox Cursor/Carret color in Windows Phone
All you need is a style for your textbox, as follows: <Style TargetType=”TextBox” x:Key=”MyStyle”> <Setter Property=”FontSize” Value=”28″/> <Setter Property=”Width” Value=”350″/>...
View ArticlePlaying video from Windows 8 to Xbox: what a mess
So, following up on my previous blog, I have been happily playing videos from my Surface or Windows 8 laptop until yesterday. I followed the required steps: download the video, connect to Xbox...
View ArticleScrollbar and Scrollviewer with Windows Phone
I just figured out a nice one concerning the interesting topic of the scrollbars with Windows Phone. I had a hard time getting a scrollbar appear around my canvas. I then decided to change my code to...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Marketing Issue
Microsoft’s marketing problems are pretty simple, if you ask me. When a company communicates, it can do so about the following: What it does: Microsoft does that, but not so well. I mean, in Europe,...
View ArticleBing Home Page: Today’s Version
The Bing home page seems to be – again – in heavily testing on Microsoft’s side. Yesterday, I had a new version, but only in IE10, like this: Today in IE10, I am back with the “old” version, like this:...
View ArticleBing results: new features for forums
While I am not sure when exactly this feature was added, as a regular Bing user, I am pretty sure it was added pretty recently. So, when performing searches that yield result from discussion forums,...
View ArticleAndroid Facebook OS? Muh?
Facebook is really becoming a strange thing. Less cool than before (aren’t all the parents using this?), it seems that Mark Zuck is gonna miss the point again with phones. After the famously unfamous...
View ArticleGlasses and watch, mmmmm
So everyone’s gonna come with one of their own. Google’s apparently not gonna stay alone for long in the smart glasses market, and Apple’s not alone anymore as a rumoured smart watch maker. Microsoft’s...
View ArticleMicrosoft Q3 2013
And here’s our favorite moment: the financial results. Good job Microsoft! The decrease of PC sales couldn’t keep Microsoft from improving their results. How impressive is that? As usually, let’s focus...
View ArticleXbox: another Microsoft marketing fiasco
During the last 10 years, how many times did Microsoft manage to actually perform an announcement correctly? Let me answer that one for you: none. You would think that in such a big company, they would...
View ArticleMicrosoft Keynotes: Solving the Problem
Following up on my previous post, I want to reflect a few minutes on what Microsoft could do to put an end to what seems to a endless series of missed events. So here’s what I would do about Microsoft...
View ArticleAnother Nokia Keynote: Zoom Reinvented!
As Mary-Jo pointed out today, Nokia has announced a 5 hour log (!!) keynote, to be held in New York on July 11th. As shown on the invite below, the event is called “Zoom. Reinvented” and is suddenly...
View ArticleXBox one fiasco: still going on
The XBox fiasco. Still going on. I think Sony nailed it when they demonstrated how to lend a game on the coming PS4: just be lending the CD… How simple is that? Ask that very same question to...
View ArticleSiri and Bing
That’s quite a news! Siri going with Bing. If done right, this should give Bing the credibility it still needs. And I am convinced this will be done right. The Bing team is just achieving an amazing...
View ArticleBallmer was all wrong
I would like to reflect a little on Ballmer’s departure. And to go agains Paul Thurrott’s argument that the Ballmer years weren’t all that bad after all. Paul, I love your blog and generally have a lot...
View ArticleSamsung Smart Watch: Seriously?
VentureBeat published yesterday pictures of the coming Samsung SmartWatch: the Galaxy Gear. Here’s the picture displayed on their site: Can you believe that? Seriously? I mean, come one, this one HAS...
View ArticleShort reflection on WP8 SDK system requirements
I know this is a veryyyy late post, but I want to share a few thoughts about the Windows 8 requirement for installing WP8 SDK. I think with that decision, Microsoft, once again, made the life of a lot...
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