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Windows Mobile Marketplace Adds Non-Mobile App Store

Microsoft added a few nice new features to its Windows Mobile Marketplace today, including enhanced security and a nice-looking store that can be accessed from your computer's browser, much like Xbox Live.

SkyDrive Explorer – using your SkyDrive from Windows Explorer

http://www.skydriveexplorer.com/

Nice.

SkyDrive Explorer is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SkyDrive Explorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive™ service (read more...) using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer.

Moreover you don't need to install and configure any additional programs or ActiveX components. SkyDrive Explorer will organize the interaction with the online storage itself.

Listening to our customers – Windows 7

Microsoft Generation 4 Data Centers

Concept video of Generation 4 modular data centers being developed by Microsoft Global Foundation Services.

Bing on your Mobile Phone

The changes include finger-friendly buttons and even a movie finger which will let users browse for movies that are available in a cinema near them. Just go to m.bing.com from your smartphone in order to see Bing in action.

Great example of Deepzoom – The Matterhorn

http://rubrik.ch.msn.com/reportagen/zermatt.aspx.

Windows Phone Launch in Belgium

Yesterday we launched Windows Mobile 6.5 and our Windows Phone branding. We had a great press-conference on monday and quite some coverage like on Kanaal Z.

Microsoft Surface demo of Belgian Beer Café Application by the creative stores

Cool stuff ! Want a table at home…

Think Privacy – Nice clip on privacy in a connected world…

Upon popular demand – my slides of today

Presentation on “Every consumer is a business user is a consumer”. Audience was a large group of CIO’s of large Belgian companies and my mission was to convince them of the fact that Consumers (and especially the Gen-Y people entering their companies) will drive their IT infrastructure innovation over the next years. And also make them realize they play a key role in the success or failure of their company the next years to come.

The feedback I got was great - slides are on Slideshare – let me know what you think.