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Join me and piles of others in the MVP vConference (online). See below for more details. Here is a high level overview of the event: World-class free online conference that features technical content presented by Americas’ region MVPs that is open to the public More technical content (Level 200, 300, 400), less marketing 5 tracks: …

Apparently now I’m a Windows Phone App developer too.    I created the (free!) Windows Phone app, itgroove Blogs, available in the Windows Phone Store. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/itgroove-blogs/8f62ebfc-a1ee-4647-8777-5203c0f413e3 Many thanks to Jan Hannemann (Nokia Ambassador) https://janhannemann.wordpress.com/ who provided the details on the amazing Windows Phone App Generator tool (http://apps.windowsstore.com/default.htm). I highly recommend you check out the tool, …

As reported on The Verge, a reddit user got their hands on a possible next gen version of Windows Phone (Blue?).  They posted a series of screenshots out on the interwebs and we’re all able to now start to speculate on what will or will not be included in the next version of the Phone …

According to CNet, Windows Phone is well up over it’s market share in the first 3 months of 2013, over 2012. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57587297-75/windows-phone-wins-5.6-percent-of-u.s-smartphone-sales/

As a holder of a Windows Phone 8, this pleases me, and maybe we’ll finally start to get some notice from the missing app makers out there. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/16/windows-phone-surpasses-blackberry-for-third-place-in-smartphone-shipments/?hpt=hp_t3

Being a Windows Phoneite, Phoner… Phonee?  As well as a SharePointer…? (English is hard)  I’m a big fan of anything that integrate the two of them together.  I came across a number of recently created SharePoint apps written specifically for Windows Phone 8.  In the link below, you’ll find the blog of the author who …

Be a beta tester, and make Facebook for Windows Phone be all that it can be. http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2013/04/30/join-the-facebook-for-windows-phone-beta-app-program.aspx

As blogged by Frank Shaw, Corporate VP of Corporate Communications at Microsoft, Windows Phone is making some headway.  At this point, it’s mostly doing well in more developing markets, but if you can win “India” and “Russia” – with a potential Billion and a half-ish people, who cares if you win the much smaller North …