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We have already shown you the Windows Phone 7 emulator that has been already leaked and unlocked and now we can show you the first pictures of Microsoft's Office suite for Windows Phone 7.

As you already know Microsof' Office is one of the most popular word editing tools available right now so we will expect Redmond to make available its famous productivity tool to its Windows Phone 7 customers as soon as the first phone running the new OS hit the market.


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Windows Phone 7 is still the hot OS in town. It might not be perfect but it still packs some amazing features. In fact, looking back at MWC where three new mobile platforms have been unveiled, bada OS, Symbian^3 and Windows Phone 7, one can safely say that only Windows Phone 7 has truly made an impression.

With that in mind it's actually not surprising to see that a Windows Phone 7 emulator has been already leaked and it is now available to anyone that would be interested in checking it out.


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A couple of days ago we told you how Windows Phone 7 Series smartphones will lack the Copy and Paste feature. That was certainly very disappointing news and Microsoft wanted to clarify its position on the matter.

It looks like Redmond will not have time to implement this particular feature until the official launch of the first Windows Phone 7 smartphones but Copy and Paste will be coming after launch.


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Ok so we've heard that the only place you can buy Windows Phone 7 applications is the official Marketplace but it looks like Microsoft has more limitations in place for the upcoming OS which tend to cloud it's easily achieve coolness.

Like Apple, it looks like Microsoft will not support multitasking, at least for now. Sure multitasking drains battery life and can clog the processor thus destroying our whole smartphone performance but some sort of multitasking is definitely required. And let's not forget that Microsoft has raised the bar when it comes to Windows Phone 7 hardware specifications particularly in order to improve the performance of future handsets running its OS.


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Besides a totally fresh and very appealing mobile OS, Microsoft also has to update its Marketplace. The Redmond-based company has talked about the future of its App Store rival at MIX10 showing us a little bit of what lies ahead. With these explanations one other important announcement came regarding the future availability of Windows Phone 7 apps.

It looks like Microsoft will want its Windows Phone 7 customers to get apps from the Marketplace alone. That means you won't be able to officially find apps for your upcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile phone anywhere else than the Marketplace.


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We've waited and waited for Microsoft's MIX conference to arrive and we can now tell you officially that Redmond will not support Windows Phone 7 upgrades for the HTC HD2. The decision is final and it might not be very well received by HTC HD2 fans out there.

One of the main reasons the HTC HD2 can't handle Windows Phone 7, at least according to Microsoft, is the fact that it has too many physical buttons.


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A strange report comes in all the way from The Wall Street Journal. It would seem that the iPhone has rapidly become a very popular phone among Microsoft employees. In fact no less than 10,000 Microsoft employees using iPhone smartphones have been accessing the Microsoft email system which amounts to roughly 10% of Redmond's active "soldiers."

While company policy can't officially make its employees ditch iPhones in favor of Windows Mobile handsets the report goes to say that some employees go to great lengths to disguise their iPhones. What Microsoft did last year in order to convince more people to switch back to Windows Mobile smartphones was to change its corporate cellphone policy to reimburse service fees for employees using Windows Mobile.


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If you were maintaining an eye out on all the Android related news stories popping up everywhere, then you might have seen this little thing about Motorola kicking out Google Search in favor of Microsoft Bing as the default Search Engine on all Motorola Android devices hitting China, crazy stuff huh? Well it's about to get crazier.

Android fanboys around the web are enraged at the choice Motorola has taken, so furious that many are planning to never buy another Motorola phone ever again. Majority of the complainers are not from China, but like me they must have smelt the obvious plan at work here. This deal with Microsoft could end up going world wide instead of being exclusive to China, Motorola could face some serious implications if they go ahead with such a plan. Android phone owners want the Google experience, it is probably the main reason why many people own an Andorid handset today, its all about the complete Google experience and without that, a phone based on Android is not really Android.

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In your face Apple! That's what Microsoft and Adobe seem ready to tell Cupertino soon. It looks like the two companies are working hard at making Flash available to future Windows Phone 7 customers.

Back at MWC 2010 when Steve Ballmer was asked about Flash support for Windows Mobile 7 he did say that the new platform will lack Flash at the beginning but that's going to be fixed later on.


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Remember when we told you that Motorola was going to launch Android phones in China on its own? It was just after those infamous hackers' attacks pointed at China that we heard Google will not support Android in China.

Motorola decided to continue its Android plans even without Google official support and today we hear that it has signed an agreement with Microsoft according to which the later will bring its Bing search engine to Motorola Android handsets launched in China.


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