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Old 10-21-2010, 01:56 AM
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Default The Official Windows Phone Connector for OS X

http://electricpig.co.uk/2010/10/21...tech+news+site)

"Windows Phone 7 Connector is coming, for all you Windows Phone 7 obsessives stashing media on your previously incompatible OS X machine. No, it's not Zune for Mac, but it does get the job done: we've been testing it out over the last few days, so read on for our impressions."

As I suspected, 99% of the headlines out there over the past week the were proclaiming that the "Zune desktop software is coming to OS X" are flat-out wrong. It's amazing how people twist and conflate pieces of information. Anyway, if you're an OS X user and you want a simple way to get music, photos, and videos onto your Windows Phone 7 - the reviewer doesn't say whether it also works with the Zune...I'd like to think it does given the platform similarities, but I can't say for sure. The beta comes out October 24th, at which point I'll take it for a spin myself and see what works and what doesn't. What I don't understand is why Microsoft is being so coy about this - it's a pretty significant move!

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Old 10-26-2010, 02:44 AM
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It's so good to see Microsoft doing this, after not providing anything for the Zune itself. Much better than paying $39 to MarkSpace for their software (and no doubt they WILL develop software for Windows Phone 7 that will add more synch options). I believe almost all the major Mac sites have carried this news and I hope this gamble pays off will enough for MS that they'll continue to refine and improve the software. Heck, even Android doesn't have a native sync client for Macs (DoubleTwist is 3rd party).
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