San Francisco

Today at a Windows Store preview event in San Francisco, we announced the policies and business terms for the Windows Store. These details for the Windows Store are very important as it outlines the incredible economic opportunity for developers that Windows 8 represents as the Windows Store will be an integrated feature in Windows 8. For more details on what we’re announcing today, I suggest reading this blog post from Ted Dworkin.

Everyone I know in the United States is already starting to feel maxed out on holiday. There are tons of things to do: buy a turkey, buy presents, plan festive seasonal parties, get a New Year’s Eve plan in place, take family photos and the list goes on. So, we thought maybe there is one thing we can do this year to decrease all the things on your plate – we’ll take your family photos (if you live in the US, Canada or France) and we’ll do it while you are already on the move.

Hello! We have hit about half the cities on our list so far, but there is still a chance to attend an event before the tour is all wrapped up! Here is what is on tap:

Inner Circle events, register here:

Tonight – Boston, Atlanta and Houston

November 16 – Philadelphia, and Charlotte

My family has 1 holiday photo that I can remember. While it would be easy to blame that on my parents, the fault probably rests entirely with us rambunctious kids. We simply could not bother to sit still long enough to get one! Think about it: 6 kids + 4 Dogs + 3 Cats = a recipe for disaster when it comes to photo taking.

Join us for one of our exclusive events across the U.S. and get a first look at the hottest new Windows Phones such as the HTC Titan, HTC Radar, Samsung Focus S and Samsung Focus Flash. You know Windows Phone is packed with killer social integration, a wide variety of games and apps, and a ton of other great features, now come see it all on cool new hardware.

Those of you who read the blog regularly know that I am in love with Origin.

Happy Friday! What a better way to end the week than a new episode of Windows Phone Radio? This week, we welcome Aaron Woodman from the Windows Phone product management to talk about the recent trip to Mobile World Congress, the start of the first phone update and much more.

Next week we will be in San Francisco for the 2011 Game Developer’s Conference.  It’s a big conference with lots of attendees expected.  Microsoft will have a number of people there to connect with developers and partners and will be throwing a big party on Thursday night (March 3rd) to celebrate.

We are going to bring five WP7 developers as our guests to the party.  Want to be one of them?  Here’s what you need to do:

Flock yeah! Angry Birds, the smash-hit smartphone game, is headed for Marketplace—and that’s just for starters.

Microsoft today announced its new spring lineup of games for the phone and it includes titles that I’m sure are on many of your wish lists. Besides Angry Birds, the other games are:

It snowed here today in Redmond. While the team is spending a lot of time indoors working on the final version of Internet Explorer 9, we think it’s time to plan on going somewhere warmer.

Building off the excitement from last week’s IE9 Release Candidate event in San Francisco, we have another event on the horizon for IE9.