SkyDrive app for Android is live at Google Play store and available free for download for Android users of Microsoft‘s cloud storage service SkyDrive. Check also: SkyDrive App for iOS, SkyDrive for Mac Features Access all of your SkyDrive content including files shared with you. View recently used documents. Choose multiple photos or videos to upload from your phone. Share your files and photos – send a link in email or in another app. Open your SkyDrive files in other Android apps. Manage your files – delete, or create new folders. Download SkyDrive App for Android

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Surfaces. Turns out, the plural form of Microsoft’s new tablet range rolls off of the tongue with ease, but understanding the differences between the first two models may not be quite as easy — particularly for the everyman, or folks intimately familiar with Microsoft’s other Surface. Two editions — Surface for Windows RT and Surface for Windows 8 Pro — were unveiled today in Los Angeles, and while the exterior of each one looks nearly identical, the innards expose major differences in architecture. Let’s break it all down after the break, shall we? Surface [...]

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Looks like old Fujitsu isn’t the only PC-maker looking to get into the Windows 8 tablet business before year’s end. Addressing a conference in Northern California, HP CEO Meg Whitman let it be known that her company plans on pushing out an Intel-packing tablet running the new Microsoft operating system in 2012. How about a dual-boot webOS system, Meg? We can dream, can’t we?

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Microsoft has released MSN for iPad, that allows users to swipe to find news, sports, money, health and many more articles including videos, and also gives options to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, or via email. Features: Popular photo galleries and slideshows Quick access to Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger View in portrait and landscape modes, whatever is easier for you Send feedback to the MSN team – let us know what you think Download MSN for iPad

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Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone is out there for developers which was a project of Microsoft’s Channel 9 but later picked up by developer Den Delimarsky. Visual Studio Achievements is a free app which allows developers to track their achievements, compare and share their scores with friends etc. You can find Visual Studio Achievements detail on Channel 9 and Den blog. Download Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone

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Today is the day fine folks — Kinect for Windows is here. The official, and commercial, version 1.0 of the SDK just hit the interwebs along with the accompanying hardware for a price of $250, or $150 for qualified educational customers. The tool has picked up a number of new features since the last beta, including support for up to four Kinects being used simultaneously and near mode for monitoring motion from just 40cm away. For more info and a complete list of improvements hit up the source link. Download from Microsoft

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Microsoft interoperability team has released Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Windows Phone which is in beta and its a part of Microsoft‘s open source project. This SDK will help developers to quickly integrate Windows Phone apps with AWS (S3, SimpleDB, and SQS Cloud Services). According to Director of Business Development for Amazon Web Service: “Our approach with AWS is to provide developers with choice and flexibility to build applications the way they want and give them unlimited storage, bandwidth and computing resources, while paying only for what they use. We welcome Windows Phone [...]

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OnLive released OnLive Desktop app through App Store, which brings Windows apps to iPad through cloud services including MS Office apps Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc. Features: Instantly view, edit and create documents using actual Microsoft® Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint Easily transfer files between OnLive Desktop and other devices Experience high-performance, instant-response PC applications Interact with lag-free animation and video If you are a new user then first Sign up for free at www.onlive.com/desktop. You can download OnLive Desktop for iPad through integrated link, but just to [...]

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Following the traditions, at Nokia, the company plans to give away recently launched its Windows PhonesLumia 800 and Lumia 710 to the developers (under some clauses). Nokia, as announced about the device seeding plan during Nokia World event, has now announced the details about that seeding plan. According to that 25,000 Windows Phone devices of Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 will be delivered to the developers around the world.   At Nokia World we announced a device seeding plan of unprecedented scale for Nokia – 25,000 of the Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 will be put into the hands [...]

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If you like making purchases without any sense of when your products will arrive, allow us to brighten your day. The Microsoft Store just started taking pre-orders for the Samsung Series 7 Slate — you remember, the Windows 7 machine sporting Intel’s 1.6GHz Core i5 2467M CPU with integrated graphics and 4GB of RAM, all beneath a 11.6-inch capacitive panel? Sure, you remember. MS is selling it for $1,299 with a 128GB SSD. And the mystery of wondering when it’ll actually ship? That they’ll throw in for free.

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