Windows Phone 7 eats MicroSD cards Windows Phone 7 exhibits all sorts of quirky behavior — InfoWorld’s Galen Gruman tore it a new orifice in his July 15 review — but this one takes the cake. For reasons known only to the Redmond gods, Microsoft has decided to endow its phone operating system with a completely new, utterly incompatible, proprietary memory card format

Microsoft Exec: ‘We’ll Beat Google In Cloud’ “Confusing.” That’s how Kurt DelBene, senior VP of Microsoft’s Office Business Productivity Group, summed up Google’s cloud-based approach to desktop productivity and collaboration in an interview this week with InformationWeek. Microsoft’s strategy, by contrast, is focused and consistent, DelBene claimed, offering “full-fidelity viewing” across on-premise, Internet-based and mobile platforms