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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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Windows Phone 7 is a very hot OS but that will not save Microsoft anytime soon. The new OS is expected to arrive by the end of the year and until then Redmond is going to lose even more marketshare to Google, Apple and RIM.

A recent study analyzing the U.S. mobile market from October 2009 to January 2010 clearly shows that Android sales have risen by 4.3% compared to October 2009 stats while Windows Mobile sales dropped as Microsoft lost 4.0% market share. RIM and Apple are reading the charts and they also on the rise with 43.0% and 25.1% market share.


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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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Here is new game for Windows Phones called Next Element 2. It's a logical-puzzle game, where your task is to destroy all the fields on the screen. You have 80 levels to train your brain in different situations and all this is packed with interesting graphics and nice music. The Next Element 2 is a game with levels of rising difficulty, which tries to provide all players a lot of satisfaction.


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Just a couple of days ago we heard that Windows Phone 7 handsets will be able to run the same games Xbox 360 console do. That's an amazing feature which will certainly convince quite a few Xbox 360 enthusiasts to get a Windows Phone 7 handset when they become available later this year.

Today we hear that Microsoft talked about XNA 4.0 which is exactly the tool needed to make games for Windows PCs, Windows Phone 7 handsets and Xbox 360 consoles possible.


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GPS Dashboard is just released application by Leaf International Communications which main purpose is to view the status of the GPS on your phone. Along with with it has very cool features including Compass, and shows Speed, Altitude, Longitude and Latitude all the packed in great interface.

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Microsoft Project Pink has been hot on everyone lips since we first heard about it last year, now some good news is finally out of the wood works and we can hold our heads high to the sky as the release date draws close. Project Pink phones are looking more like Micorsoft's own version of the Sidekick seeing as they are targeted at snuffy teenagers and look all lady like, and the fact Micorsoft bought Danger, the guys who came up with the first Sidekick back in the day.

Since Project Pink phones are messaging and teenager centric handsets, you most won't find Windows Phone Series 7 OS on them, I'm thinking a whole new, or Windows Mobile 6.5+ which seems more fitting in my eyes and would keep the price down at a bare minimum. Now let's get down to what really matters here, the first set of Project Pink handsets are set for an April 20th launch, and guess which Network is chosen to do the bidding? Big bad boys in red Verizon Wireless.

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One of the most important features of upcoming Windows Phone 7 phones will be gaming and Microsoft is well aware of that. Its direct competition, Apple, already has two devices that are used for gaming a lot, the iPhone and the iPod touch so Microsoft's mission is not that easy.

But it looks like Microsoft is taking the job pretty seriously and it has already demoed Windows Phone 7 gaming support. The same game has been demoed at TechEd Middle East and it can be played on a Windows computer with a keyboard, on an Xbox 360 with a controller and on a Windows Phone 7 thanks to the built-in accelerometer.


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Photographers today can enjoy another tools for measuring field for their photos. After the previous released software by Luca here is another one called WinMoDof. WinMoDof is a free application for photographers. It is useful to calculate the depth of field according to the equipment, the camera settings and the focus distance. The user interface has been designed to be finger controled and its goal is to allow the user to access as fast as possible to the needed information.

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We've already seen T-Mobile's pricing details for the HTC HD2 and we know it's coming this month to U.S. customers eager to finally play with the device. But it's today that we hear HTC's flagship Windows Mobile 6.5 phone is getting ready to arrive on March 24.

The HTC HD2 is probably the last Windows Mobile 6.5 phone ready to impress us and you're not going to regret buying it. Although Microsoft might not support the update to Windows Phone 7, the HTC HD2 definitely deserves such an upgrade. Or at least we can surely bet that HTC is going to make an HD2 successor that will run Microsoft's latest OS.


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