Is Yahoo causing Windows Phone 7 data-upload conc

It;s been a lengthy brief week right here in snowy New york. Here are some additional Microsoft news bits about which I didn;t possess a probability to weblog earlier this week.Microsoft acknowledges third-party producing data-uploading problems on Windows Telephone seven units: Microsoft officials stated this week the excessive information uploading knowledgeable by some WP7 people is due to a third-party application. Microsoft declined to title the provider or application, but did say corporation officials were operating together with the corporation in question to repair the application. Microsoft may perhaps probably present a workaround, officials mentioned. I;ve noticed two credible reports which are pointing fingers at Yahoo Mail because the feasible culprit. I didn;t obtain a response from Yahoo when I asked, and Microsoft execs also declined to comment particularly on Yahoo Mail becoming probably at fault.Talking of Windows Telephone seven, MobileTechWorld.com posted this week its fairly in-depth WP7 evaluation — complete with a section on missing features and updates — that;s worth checking out.The Microsoft brain-drain train chugs along: At the risk of turning my “All About Microsoft” blog into a “No longer at Microsoft” one, I;m continuing to post information and facts about some of the more public folks leaving the corporation. In addition to posts I did this week on Microsoft;s head of consumer marketing for Windows and one of its Kinect contributors and researchers leaving the enterprise, there are others who made headlines this week. Julien Codorniou, who managed the Microsoft BizSpark program for startups, is going to Facebook. (Thanks to @pradeepviswav for the heads up on that one.) And Emilio Umeoka, the Microsoft president of Asia Pacific, is going to Juniper Networks to run the corporation;s worldwide channel program. Hmm. Maybe it;s time for Microsoft to start touting publicly its new hires via some tweets and Facebook updates…..Can you have HTML compliance without agreement on what “HTML” is? A day after the W3C (and Microsoft) put their muscle behind a new HTML5 marketing campaign and logo, the editor of the Hypertext Markup Language standard (among others) stated the W3C;s definition of HTML5 is basically meaningless. (The HTML editor is Google employee Ian Hickson.) The Web Hypertext Applications Technology Functioning Group (WHATWG) is advocating that HTML with no version quantity — and no related technologies, such as CSS or font formats — be considered the “real” HTML standard. (WHATWG members include Apple, Mozilla and Opera.) In any case, Microsoft is firmly in the W3C/HTML5 camp with IE 9.Update (January 24): The W3C has pared back the list of technologies covered by the HTML5 logo to just HTML5 (not HTML5 plus SVG, plus CSS, plus Web Sockets, etc.).Former Softies get SaaSy:A bunch of former Microsoft execs have launched a Seattle-based startup called buuteeq. The new venture is offering independent hotels a software-as-a-service (SaaS) digital-marketing system to create web sites, mobile phone content, a Facebook presence and direct-to-hotel online reservations. Among buuteeq;s management are CEO Adam Brownstein, former Director of Organization Development in the Microsoft Entertainment and Products Division; Chief Marketing Officer Forest Key, former Senior Director in the Microsoft Server & Tools Division; Brian Saab, fomer head of the worldwide marketing team for the Microsoft Expression tools; and board member Charles Fitzgerald, who was formerly General Manager of Platform Strategy at Microsoft.