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Monday February 11, 2008
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While the big news from Microsoft today was their purchase of Danger, they also had one cute, cuddly little software announcement at Mobile World Congress: MSN Direct is now a free software download for Windows Mobile devices.
MSN Direct is the information service that you might remember from Microsoft's SPOT watches; it's just basically news, weather and stock information, for now. It was unusual when it was being delivered via RF to watches and coffee machines; in the handheld world, it has to compete with dozens of other news and information delivery services.
Still, it's cute. The information pops up in a panel on your home screen, and when you tap on it, it expands, finally launching Internet Explorer for full details. Right now the 'news' section only takes information from MSN. But Microsoft wants to make Direct's development process unusually open to users' suggestions, and they're asking people to download the beta and suggest other panels of information they'd like to see. Hey, it's free.
Check it out at Microsoft's site. More photos after the jump.
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April 1, 2008 5:26 PM
lot of phones are not supported. What is the criteria for the phones? Do they have to have 3G to support this? I have a T-Mobile Wing with Windows Mobile 6 but couldn't install MSN Direct. Apparently my phone is not among supported phones.