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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…