Cool video: iPhone and Microsoft Surface mashup
arstechnica.com 2/6/2009 — The Microsoft-Apple battle has been raging for ages, and when the iPhone and Microsoft Surface were announced, trolls squirmed with excitement at the prospect of yet another completely different pair of products to compare and bash. So ...

Microsoft Must Make More Apps For The iPhone
businessinsider.com 9/30/2009 — Apple's iPhone has quickly become the world's most important mobile software platform. It's time for Microsoft, the world's biggest software company, to take it more seriously. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Microsoft's Mobile ...

Microsoft's First Store Opening "Imminent"
modmyi.com 10/17/2009 — Image via Gearlive.com Microsoft 's first store is ready to open and it could as early as Monday according to multiple published reports. Phoenix will play host to the first store as the software maker ups the ante in its competitive posturing with Apple. As Reuters reported this ...

Exclusive: Pink Danger leaks from Microsoft's Windows Phone
appleinsider.com 10/9/2009 — Earlier this week, an anonymous tipster leaked the news that Microsoft's top secret Pink project, aimed to take on the iPhone just as the Zune targeted the iPod, was "near death and probably will be canceled." Another source has now spilled even more ...

A Microsoft smartphone: No. A Microsoft phone chassis: Yes | All about Microsoft
blogs.zdnet.com 2/12/2009 — February 6th, 2009 A Microsoft smartphone: No. A Microsoft phone chassis: Yes Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 5:31 am Categories: Code names , Corporate strategy , Mobile services ("Pink"/"Rouge") , Telecommunications , Windows Live , Windows Mobile , Xbox ...

Microsoft to open retail stores near Apple's this fall
blogs.zdnet.com 7/15/2009 — Microsoft is planning to open the first of its planned retail stores next to existing Apple stores this fall. Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told partners the news during his Worldwide Partner Conference keynote on July 15.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Second generation Surface coming
news.bbc.co.uk 3/16/2009 — A second generation of Microsoft's Surface computing device is two to three years away, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard. Developer Joe Olsen, whose company Phenomblue writes applications for the Surface, said he had been told the device was ...

Microsoft sells restrictive new WiMo Marketplace via iPhone ads
appleinsider.com 9/16/2009 — With the release of Windows Mobile 6.5 and its new Marketplace app store fast approaching, Microsoft has resorted to buying ads within iPhone apps to attract the attention of developers. Even so, the company's new store plans to be even more ...

Microsoft Ads Winning Over More Consumers than Apple’s
theappleblog.com 6/2/2009 — Apple’s fantastically effective “Get a Mac” commercials have entertained us for years now, and they just get better and better. Microsoft has been slow to respond, and when it did start to hit back, it first did so with the amusing-but-confusing ...

Microsoft Store Mimics, and Enhances, the Apple Store Experience
db.tidbits.com 10/23/2009 — On 22 October 2009, Microsoft opened their very first consumer retail store in the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall in Scottsdale, Arizona. Although Microsoft has long had a fabled company store at the Redmond, Washington campus, the Microsoft Store is their first attempt at engaging directly ...