Steven Hodson
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Hotmail has Bigger Hurdles than Just Lack of Features
Microsoft has been playing a rather interesting game lately in regard to where you will find some of its services and programs. On Facebook you will find that Messenger is one of the most popular apps. Bing has found its way onto iOS via the iPhone and iPad, and now you can get a Hotmail ...
At Least One Person Thinks Ballmer is Doing a Good Job
Even though the Microsoft board may think that Steve Ballmer is underpaid for all the hard work he does. the majority of pundits think that Microsoft is in real need of a new CEO; well, with the exception of Peter Yared at VentureBeat, it would seem. In a post today, Yared quite rightly points out ...
Windows 8 Finds a Comfy Home on the iPad
Thanks to Corvida on Google+ I ran across this rather cool how-to post that will let you experience Windows 8 as it should be experienced – on a tablet, and iPad at that. The how-to is over at AppAdvice and involves an application called Splashtop Remote Desktop for iPad, an iPad, and Windows 8 installed ...
Windows 8 tablets Take Aim at Choice, not Competition
One of the more irritating traits about tech punditry are the seemingly endless opinions on how the new Product A is going to kill the older Product B, or not, depending on the writer’s biases. Of course when it comes to biases in the tech blogosphere, none is bigger than the bias against Microsoft, and ...
Installing Windows 8 Virtually? Not Yet
Like just about every other Microsoft and Windows fan, I grabbed a copy of the Windows 8 Developer Preview (actually both the 32bit and 64bit) as soon as they were available for download. Of course, with the iden in mind that I would be able to have some first hand experiences to write about. Unfortunately, ...
Ballmer Finally Admits that Windows Phone Sales not What He Had Hoped for
During today’s Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM) CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer finally admitted to the fact that Windows Phone wasn’t performing well. He did say that Microsoft’s partners hadn’t sold ”quite as many as I would have liked” between its October release and today, all the while still not releasing any solid sales number for Windows ...
Windows Gets a Desktop Gadget for Google+
Not everyone in the world likes living in a browser. (Unlike my good friend Louis Gray, who does. I still have a bone to pick with you about that Louis.) I, on the other hand am the opposite. I love me some desktop, the more of it the better. However when new browser based service ...
A Nice Bonus for Zune Desktop Users and Last.fm Fans
Sharing is all the rage these days, and besides photos, one of the things we like to share the most is our favorite music. This is why Facebook is looking at getting into the music business, and why services like Pandora, Spotify, Grooveshark, and rdio are so popular. One of the long time players in ...
Why I’m Waiting for a Windows 8 Tablet
Up until about two years ago I had never owned a laptop, or even a cellphone. It wasn’t that I didn’t want one, or rather thought I needed one, but a matter of having the disposable income to finally get one. This meant that for the better part of my 20+ years of dealing with ...
Windows 8 to Bring New File Copy, Delete, and Move UI
If there is one thing that has remained constant in Windows throughout all of its incarnations, It’s the software’s copy, delete, and move file functions. This is something that Microsoft is looking to finally improve in Windows 8. The Building Windows 8 blog had a post up this evening, outlining some of the changes we ...
