A few Microsoft news items from around the Web:The early critiques of Kin (formerly known as Pink) are in. And general, they;re not superior. Most of the criticism is about cost, with reviewers noting that Kins are fancy function phones, not smartphones,
Office Professional Plus 2010, but they're priced like smartphones. (There isn't any Kin app download ability and none coming.) Verizon is requiring a data plan that costs the identical as ones for smartphones. Possibly Microsoft/Verizon are assuming some rich parents will likely be prepared to shell out for his or her teens/twentysomethings to socialize?The Wall Road Journal liked the Studio component of the new phones,
Cheap Office 2010, but other reviewers are nevertheless scratching their heads as to why Microsoft felt a must function with Sharp to develop Windows Phones to get a specific segment of the marketplace, instead of pitching Windows Phone 7 gadgets towards the “Upload Generation.”Spindex: Microsoft;s latest social-networking spin. Microsoft;s FUSE Labs,
Office 2010 Pro Plus, the folks that brought us the recent preview of Office Docs (Office Web Apps integrated with Facebook), have released another new preview. This one is called Spindex. It sounds a lot like FriendFeed from early reports. FUSE Labs; charter is to develop social-network-centric apps and technologies.Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 has been released to the Internet. As expected,
Office Home And Student, Microsoft has RTW;d ADFS 2.0 (codenamed “Geneva”), its new iteration of its directory federation services. The ADFS 2.0 bits are available from the Microsoft download center. ADFS Geneva is a key part of Microsoft;s security/identity platform,
Office Home And Business, as well as part of its Azure cloud operating environment. Microsoft also released towards the Web today Forefront 2010 Protection for SharePoint 2010.Microsoft and Nokia have rolled out their promised Communicator for Nokia release. The Communicator secure instant messaging client is available initially for Nokia E72 and Nokia E52, and is downloadable (English only) as of May 5 from Nokia;s Ovi Store. Over time, the pair will make Communicator Mobile for Nokia available pre-installed on select Nokia Eseries smartphones. Microsoft and Nokia announced their mobile partnership in August 2009.