The Ads

Rather than tell you how great-looking and clever the new ads for Windows Phone 7 are, I thought I’dshow them instead. Here’s the first one, which features Donovan’s song, Season of the Witch:

Here’s the other one, which asks this question: “Really?” (In case you were wondering, the tune is In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg.)

The message in both these ads is pretty simple: Smartphones eat up a lot of your attention and time. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was one that didn’t do that?

There are lots of little goodies in Windows Phone 7 that address this issue. The ones I can think of off the top of my head include:

• The lock screen. You don’t have to unlock your phone just to find out what the next appointment on your calendar is. The lock screen displays it, along with the date, time and the number of voice and text messages you have.
• The Start page. The start page is where you pin your favourite and often-used items so you can access them quickly, so you don’t have to riffle through page after page of apps.
• What you can pin to the Start page. You can pin more than just apps to the Start page. Is there someone – a spouse, significant other, friend or family member – whom you phone, text, or email often? Pin that person to the Start page! Is there a website you hit many times a day? Pin it to the Start page!
• Communicating quickly with people. The People Hub on your phone makes looking up and reaching people fast and easy. Tap on a person for all the ways to reach him or her and tap on any of one of those ways to start communicating. A quick swipe shows you that person’s Facebook updates. Getting in touch and keeping up is pretty easy with this UI.
• Finding. The context-sensitive Search button is all about finding what you need, whether it’s some information on your phone, on the web or in the real world, and you get this all from a single button press.

Microsoft has been released Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 to MSDN and TechNet.MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers can download standalone SP2 update package for 32-bit (x86), 64-bit (x64) and IA-64 (Itanium i64) based Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 information for MSDN can be viewed here, and for TechNet here. The Subscriber Downloads pages for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are listed below:

• TechNet: Windows Server 2008
• TechNet: Windows Vista
• MSDN: Windows Server 2008
• MSDN: Windows Vista

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