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Ok, maybe all the hype and waiting are getting to me, but this just pushed all the right buttons to make me angry. Its bad enough when you here about sales associates leading people away from microsoft products, whether the phone or the tablets, or bad mouthing microsoft product in general...

I've used quite a few of these and they can be pretty slick! The touchsmarts are well made and are just as worthwhile as a regulaire desktop or laptop. Not to mention you save a lot of desk space! At this point though, I would ask myself if I have any interest in upgrading to Windows 8. If the...

The main areas I can see this sort of functionality being successful/useful are searching and dictation. Most other scenarios I can at most see it as augmenting apps with one word commands. Forward or back in IE, commands in games, like reload or flashlite. But if i have to give strings of three...

I've been waiting for a very simple feature to show up since the very begining. In the music hub.. Gapless Playback!! Microsoft had it with Zune, and its been sorely missed. While they're adding that feature, they should toss in crossfadeing aswell :) And would it be soooo terrible to add Flac...

I like how the first line of this article refers to the women software engineers as a "clutch." As if they're a bunch of Hens sitting around laying little app eggs :P

You're right, HTC has released the update for the HD7 and a Firmware update aswell. But so far Bell has not commited to releaseing those updates to their customers. I got tired of waiting and downloaded Tango and the Firmware updates from the XDA forums and did the update myself. All has been...

That dial tone is going to be different sometimes, depending on the carrier you are with, and the carrier the person you are calling is with. As your call is passed off to a different carrier, their system will take over and you'll here its default dial tone. On my carrier (Bell) its just a...

I didn't have to do it with my HD7 either. But I already had the service setup from previous phones, and I haven't changed my phone number. I just deleted my phone from my account and reset everything, and when I re-add my phone / number it makes me setup SMS first.

Yes, you have to setup SMS before Find My Phone will work. The Find My Phone system uses SMS to communicate with the phone to give it instructions to lock, ring, or erase all the data on the phone. If you don't have SMS setup, it can't use the service. When you set up the service, it will send...

I tried to force the update with my HD7 for days with Bell here in Canada, with no luck. I think my problem was that Bell has no plans to bother offering the tango update, so there was no update on the server to force. So I gave that up, totaly frustrated, and took the risk and downloaded the...

Ok, lets be honest here. Is there any size of text they could have put in that calender view that would be readable? Survey says, no. There isn't a phone on the market with a screen big enough to have an effective "full month" calender with all events displayed and readable. All its ment to do...

Unfortunatly thats not something Windows Phone bothers to display. And theres no way to add it that i know of outside of editing the meta-data in your music to included it in the song title. The music player does keep the tracks in the proper order, if the track number is in the meta-data. I...

I've never actualy checked that before, as I prefer 3g most of the time. I just turned off the data connection and connected to my wifi, and can still chat with people on both MSMessenger and facebook through the messeging hub. I'm using an HTC HD7 but it should be a standard Windows Phone...

I forced the update on my HD7 and the app indexing is still there. I did a count and I only have 30 apps. I'd rather it was gone myself, or atleast have the option to turn it on and off.

I've had good luck with PC Remote. It controlled most programs I tried it with. MS Media player, Winamp, XBMC, and so on. It needs a companion app installed on the PC you want to control, and works over wifi. I used it for a while before I moved on to the ConnectMe RDP client. I figure, why...