In addition to pricing and market availability, the company announced a special limited-quantity pre-order for Surface with Windows RT available 9 a.m.
"Today, I'm proud to introduce Windows Phone 7 Series, the next generation of Windows Phones, " said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer at Microsoft.
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The image up top shows how I'm currently arranging stuff in Windows 8, and it's already quite effective.
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Life here at Forbes is a case in point: The company uses Windows computers, bought in volume...well, except for my magazine, where everybody uses Macs...well, except for me, because I'm writing this on a Windows laptop.
The catch was that trades would be executed in windows only twice a day, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
The PC side will run XP Tablet Edition, on a 1.5GHz Via C7-M processor, while the smartphone will run Windows Mobile 5.0.
Phones 4u will exclusively stock the Omnia M, Samsung's latest handset running Windows Phone 7.5, for two months before any other UK retailer.
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And, with our new Windows 8 version of the Distro app, I'm happy to say you can join in the fun on more platforms than ever.
The Omnia M joins Phones 4u's extensive family of Windows Phones available in store and online.
ENGADGET: Samsung Omnia M with Windows Phone makes UK debut on August 1st, exclusively at Phones4U
But what I'm really doing is adding a layer of complexity to Windows, which slows Windows down and introduces the potential for more crashes.
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I'm not a fan, partly because it only works on Windows, and only for Internet Explorer.
I'm on the 14th floor and I hear that noise through double pane windows.
"I'm a Mac user, but on my Mac I have multiple instances of Windows--XP, Vista, very old Windows stuff and the very latest stuff, like Windows Server 2008, " he says.
I'm optimistic that one or both of the options above will become possible in Windows Phone 8, but that's little help to people like you who are using Windows Phone 7.
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M. zeroes in on even more shortcomings: His report mentions that bathroom windows compromise privacy, bistro servers left us to refill our own water glasses, the veal tongue on his lunch plate was unseasoned and very chewy, and the cheese trolley lacked a cover.
Right now, I'm in the middle of trying to adapt to this -- and like our Windows 8 review concludes, the curve is steep.
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It had blackout windows and custom black rims and was last seen speeding away from the fiery scene around 4:30 a.m.
I'm not sure the world needs another mobile operating system: if Microsoft is struggling to get traction with Windows Phone against the might of Apple's iOS and Google's Android, what chance does Mozilla have?
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