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Microsoft Should Stay a Platform Company
Guest Post by Todd McKinney Recently Todd McKinney wrote what I felt was an excellent rebuttal to my post asking if Microsoft was being forced by events into becoming a hardware company. (See the comments tied to the link below.) I asked him if he would be willing to flesh out out his thoughts on ...
Sinofsky Sets the Rules of Discussion on Windows 8
The other day Steven Sinofsky, and the Windows 8 crew by proxy, broke cover with the first blog post about Windows 8 on the new Building Windows 8 blog, and now today we get another follow-up post from Sinofsky that outlines how they want the new blog to be used. Sinofsky says early in the ...
Microsoft Setting Traps for Leakers with Newest Tester Build of Windows 8
One of the more interesting aspects of when Microsoft was working on Windows 7 was the fact that there were very few leaks of the new operating system but that hasn’t held true for Windows 8. we have already seen copies of all the major builds hitting the web. According to Tom Warren at Winrumors ...
New Games for Windows Phone and New Features for Xbox LIVE Coming Our Way
With the roll out of Mango for Windows Phone just around the corner and Microsoft starting to open up on Windows 8, , things are starting to get very interesting. To help the excitement along, Microsoft made a couple of announcements via their Windows Phone Blog. First up is Xbox LIVE and some new capabilities coming ...
Rumor: Mango to Roll Out on September 1
There’s a rumor floating around today courtesy of a post at Pocket-Lint that Microsoft is set to announce the general availability of the “Mango” OS update for existing Windows Phones as well as new Windows Phones hitting the market. Previously, you’d be lucky to get Microsoft to say anything beyond “available in the Fall”, but according ...
Image of Windows 8 Tablet Photo Sharing Leaked?
As we head into the Build conference this fall we are going to be hearing; and seeing a lot more about the different parts of Windows 8, and the different platforms it is being designed for. Thanks to @manan on Twitter we have what is reported to be an image of a Windows 8 tablet ...
The Lesson that Android Needs to Learn, but Probably Won’t
There are reasons that Windows is still the most prevalent operating system in the world. Primarily is the fact that from the very early days, Windows was easy to get and install, either legally or illegally. Anyone who has been a longtime Windows user probably at one time or another gone both routes but really, ...
Rootkits Find Perfect Breeding Ground on Windows XP Computers
Antivirus company Avast Software released some interesting news about the dangers of rootkits and where they are being found with increasing frequency. According to the company, the decade-old Windows XP platform makes up the largest reservoir of infected PC in the world; and interesting enough, or worrisome depending on your point of view, the number of ...
Is Microsoft Looking to Go Head to Head with the iPhone 5 in September?
As a sort of disclaimer, I would like to begin by saying that this is all speculation based ona single report from Digitimes so it can be taken with a grain of salt. Digitimes is reporting that all new Windows Phones running Mango are going to launch this September. We had already heard that the ...
Developers Get a Mango Refresh
On the heels yesterday’s big news which was the release of Mango, the next major update for Windows Phone,Microsoft just announced on the Windows Phone Developer blog by Cliff Simpkins that Microsoft was making the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 “Beta 2 Refresh available immediately. Starting this morning, you can download the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 “Beta ...
