4 posts and columns on Project Pink

Liveblogging Microsoft’s “Project Pink” Party–Plus Video! Will It Be Phonetastic?

in Social on April 12, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

All Things Digital will be liveblogging today’s Microsoft “social” event beginning about 10 am PT. It is reportedly about new mobile devices the social giant will release in an effort to play catch-up with Apple and Google. So, grab some coffee, pop that waffle in the toaster and keep this tab open to get the info as it breaks live from San Francisco’s Mighty event space.

Microsoft's New Mobile Phone Software Is Coming (and Its "Project Pink" Still Lives)–But Should It Just Give Up and Buy RIM?

in News on February 8, 2010 at 9:06 am PT

Next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft is likely to unveil Windows Mobile 7, the new version of its mobile operating system, trying to create some excitement around its foundering mobile strategy. “Foundering” is probably kind, given the innovative strides both Google and Apple have made in the smartphone arena in recent years by comparison. So is a new mobile OS–along with “Project Pink,” to create a new Microsoft-made device–going to cut it? Or should the tech giant buy its way back into the game?

Microsoft to Launch Zune Phone in Two Months?

in News on January 19, 2010 at 8:28 am PT

Microsoft has long claimed that its mobile strategy is to provide a software solution, not devices. So it’s intriguing to learn that talk of the company’s long-rumored “Pink” phone project has started up again. In a note to clients today, Jefferies & Company analyst Katherine Egbert claims that Redmond is gearing up to launch a “a Zune-like phone” based on Windows Mobile 7 in the next two months.
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Is Microsoft About to Launch Its Own Mobile Phone? (Updated)

in News on November 25, 2008 at 2:31 pm PT

Everyone else is in the phone business, so why not Microsoft? Several reports suggest that this may actually be in the works–one has the phone sporting an Nvidia processor and launching at the 3GSM conference, another that it is code-named “Pink,” will be Zune-based and will launch at CES in January. No word on what the code name may allude to.