Hey, Oprah, if you love Surface so much, why aren’t you tweeting from it? The answer is that she can’t. OK, she can, but the lack of an official Twitter app for Surface, for Windows RT or Windows 8 makes it harder.
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Hey, Oprah, if you love Surface so much, why aren’t you tweeting from it? The answer is that she can’t. OK, she can, but the lack of an official Twitter app for Surface, for Windows RT or Windows 8 makes it harder.

Source: marketingland.com

marketingland: “Daddy can I play with your phone?” Windows Phone will build in new feature called “Kid’s Corner,” a place where kids can run apps picked for them but in way that still protects your stuff.
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“Daddy can I play with your phone?”

Windows Phone will build in new feature called “Kid’s Corner,” a place where kids can run apps picked for them but in way that still protects your stuff.

Sorry, Microsoft Surface Users: No Google Search App For You
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Sorry, Microsoft Surface Users: No Google Search App For You

Source: searchengineland.com

Google has launched a Get Your Google Back site to teach new Windows 8 users on how to restore or add Google Search to their devices and to get Chrome. 

Source: searchengineland.com

marketingland: Where Will Surface And Windows Phone 8 Be A Year From Now?by Greg Sterling  There were two big announcements this week coming out of Microsoft: the Surface tablet PC and the new mobile OS, Windows 8, which will be closely aligned with the desktop version of 8. At the same time the company announced that it had reached 100,000 mobile apps for the Windows Phone. What now comes into clearer focus is Microsoft’s larger integrated PC-mobile push. This is Microsoft’s “one-two punch” and effort — last ditch according to some — to slow the iPad and deterioration of the PC market and re-insert itself into the consumer conversation. Is This “Desperation” or a Bold New Vision? Let’s examine what was announced and consider the potential impact of these products on the market. Pundits, observers and prognosticators appear generally divided into two camps. One holds that “Microsoft is desperate” and these efforts are likely to falter. The other argues that these are bold, exciting moves and will revive the Microsoft franchise. I’m somewhere in the middle of these opposing views. Yet I’m also skeptical that these new products will radically transform Microsoft’s place in the market, as some are predicting. Most likely Microsoft’s Surface will negatively impact other PC sales and the Windows Phone 8 will have a modestly positive impact on handset sales. Read more about Surface, Windows 8, and how it will all come down to price.
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Where Will Surface And Windows Phone 8 Be A Year From Now?
by Greg Sterling 

There were two big announcements this week coming out of Microsoft: the Surface tablet PC and the new mobile OS, Windows 8, which will be closely aligned with the desktop version of 8. At the same time the company announced that it had reached 100,000 mobile apps for the Windows Phone.

What now comes into clearer focus is Microsoft’s larger integrated PC-mobile push. This is Microsoft’s “one-two punch” and effort — last ditch according to some — to slow the iPad and deterioration of the PC market and re-insert itself into the consumer conversation.

Is This “Desperation” or a Bold New Vision?

Let’s examine what was announced and consider the potential impact of these products on the market. Pundits, observers and prognosticators appear generally divided into two camps. One holds that “Microsoft is desperate” and these efforts are likely to falter. The other argues that these are bold, exciting moves and will revive the Microsoft franchise.

I’m somewhere in the middle of these opposing views. Yet I’m also skeptical that these new products will radically transform Microsoft’s place in the market, as some are predicting. Most likely Microsoft’s Surface will negatively impact other PC sales and the Windows Phone 8 will have a modestly positive impact on handset sales.

Read more about Surface, Windows 8, and how it will all come down to price.