News · 14 Dec 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
You all probably already know that I’m not really fond of Microsoft’s Marketing team…Anyway, they have released a new Windows Phone 7 TV ad that finally shows something worth talking about: Speech Recognition associated with Bing (powered by Tellme). Ironically I demoed the same features to a somebody last week and totally blew his mind with it (I showed him the real-time flight status search using Tellme. But you know what was sad about that? The person’s brother (who lives with him) has a Windows Phone 7 device since launch (Optimus 7) and didn’t even know that long pressing on the home button activates the speech recognition feature! That’s how bad Microsoft’s WP7 marketing is (hey maybe somebody up there should hire me to run their worldwide ad campaign? no? oh well…). Check out the ad after the break:
Hopefully this one will be aired all over the world and not only in the US.
BTW, when will Microsoft give me the ability to change my Zune/XboxLive acount location? I create it nearly 5 years ago just to check an Xbox 360 demo that was only available in the US and I’m now stuck with it because it’s tied to my main hotmail account. The end result is that I can’t by anything using this account (needs a US credit card). Comme Redmond! Just give me the ability to choose the local Marketplace I want to buy from on the fly. Let me download free apps and trials in the US and buy apps where I live. Or simply allow me to correct my location…meh…
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