The recently announced Microsoft/Nokia partnership seemed to have come out of nowhere, but somehow it also seemed natural; Nokia and Microsoft, both veterans in many high-tech fields, have been trying to no avail to infiltrate the smartphone market for years. Microsoft recently reinvented their take on the smartphone world, a field at which they at one time excelled, but it was too little to late. While the software has a strong basis and a solid infrastructure, it doesn’t offer anything substantially...
Those of you who have been following my blog closely (even those of you who don’t read Hebrew), know that there’s one particular feature of Windows 7 which I was overtly excited about. That feature is the much anticipated and eventually disappointing “Device Stage” . Device Stage was supposed to be this window that pops up when you connect a device to your computer. Any device. The Window’s icon would be a photo-realistic icon of that device, and the stage would allow you to sync files, see battery...
Why "Device Stage" is starting to look like a failed promise...