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What the windows logo now represents.
Blue - Represents PC & Tablet. Here we see every device being synced to, whether it be the smallest device to a powerhouse maintaining servers.Yellow - Represents Office. Productivity being streamlined to the business sector from entrepreneur to the largest sector of a market. It also represents Developers on the programming side. No matter if it’s HTML5, C++ or Silverlight. Apps will work across all three devices in the MS ecosystem. Finally the future with cloud storage with skydrive.
Red - Represents Windows Phone. Quick and glance, always on the go. Staying connected from our social lives. The phone works and learns from us never working for it.
Green - Xbox and Live. Entertainment, gaming and interaction. In the living room, the main hub on the big screen the access from television, movies, music and games.
Metro is everywhere, simple and elegant and I love everything about it.
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Wow, looking back… 2011 was both amazing & perplexing. Reflect & remember / @bing: http://binged.it/tBjuFh #BingHoliday
LMAO. Love this. One of my fav movies.
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holy shit his voice
omg can he sing me to sleep
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And hes so cute too. Omgg.
That was pretty damn good
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bahahahaha so accurate.
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10 Questions for Those Who Want Abortion Made Illegal
1. How many years do you consider to be a fair prison term for a woman who has an abortion?
2. How many years for a doctor who performs one?
3. What other punishments would be suitable for such a breach of law: a fine, community service, submission to regular pregnancy tests, for instance?
4. Will the punishments be greater the second time around? How else will you handle recidivism?
5. Where will the state get the money necessary to prosecute one-third of all American women for this crime?
6. 42% of women who have an abortion have incomes below the federal poverty level (that’s $10,830 for a single woman with no children, for those of who are counting). When women are forced to have children they cannot afford to raise, will those children become wards of the state or new Medicaid recipients? Where will the state find the money necessary to support them?
7. Will you be willing to watch your wife die in front of you when her life is threatened by an unsafe pregnancy that no one is allowed to do anything about? Your daughter?
8. Will rapists have to pay child support to women who are forced to have their children?
9. Will the child of incest be in the custody of its rapist father or the father’s teenaged daughter, his mother? In fact, 18% of women who have an abortion in America are teenagers. Will they be required to drop out of high school to raise their children or will the state provide free childcare?
10. Will upper-class white women be prosecuted as vigorously as other women who have abortions? (You are aware that upper-class white women have abortions, aren’t you?)
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Windows Phone Notifications: Not Quite There Yet

With the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update, there have been a ton of features added, lots of new functionality, and fine tuning everywhere you look. One of the most welcome additions is the centralized notifications center under the ‘Me’ tile, finally. Push notification reliability has also improved which was a common issue pre-Mango. Unfortunately, there are still some very prominent holes that aren’t very Windows Phone-like.
Centralized Notifications
One of the best bits of functionality introduced with Mango is the ‘Notifications’ pivot found under the ‘Me’ tile. Here you can see Facebook notifications for Wall, picture, and link posts, comments, and likes. It also shows Twitter mentions and retweets. The best part is, you can even reply right from within the integrated experience, as well as see the other comments on the particular item. There are a number of LinkedIn notifications too.
What it doesn’t do is show notifications for Facebook Groups, though a couple have shown up in the beta, so it proves the functionality is there. It also doesn’t thread Twitter replies, again, something I’ve seen happen in the beta.
The one thing I don’t understand why it’s missing is app Push notifications. If you aren’t looking at your phone or don’t pick it up soon after a Push notification is received you will never know you got it unless you have the app pinned to your Start screen provided it has a Live tile and/or counter.
They really just need to show up under the ‘Me’ tile along with all the other notifications.
Push and Toast Notifications for Integrated Services
This omission is the most inconvenient, especially for Twitter users since the Twitter app doesn’t push notifications at all. The Facebook app does have a limited set of Toast notifications, but the problem with those is they throw you into the Facebook app as opposed to the integrated experience WP7 offers.
For Twitter notifications like mentions and retweets, you have to rely on emails. From there you have three options: click “Reply to @xxxxxx” and be taken to the Twitter website, navigate to and lunch the Twitter app, or navigate to the ‘Notifications’ pivot under the ‘Me’ tile. None of which are ideal.
Windows Phone just needs its own Push and Toast notifications for integrated services. I’m sure we will see these things in the future, it only makes sense.
Other Things I Hope to See in the Future
- Being able to ‘Pin’ social network groups, like from Facebook and Windows Live, to your Start scree for live tile updates. There could be a ‘Groups’ pivot in the ‘People’ hub that show all the groups across your social networks. Creating groups within those networks are a lot easier than doing so on your phone. Plus, those groups aren’t stuck on the phone they were created on. There is currently no way to sync groups to Windows Live or the Zune desktop software or connector for Mac.
- Foursquare integration: check in, live tile updates, and Toast notifications, the whole shabang. It would also be nice to see who is currently checked in from a locations card within Bing. As well as, see if friends have checked in there in the past or ‘liked’ it on Facebook.