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Could We Actually See a Windows 8 Beta by Early Fall?
One of the points of disagreement that Paul O’Flaherty and I had in the days of the Daily Brief video podcast centered around when we might see a public beta of Windows 8. Paul believed that we wouldn’t see one until sometime in 2012, and I always had a sneaking suspicion that we might see ...
Get Ready – Office 2010 SP1 Coming Your Way
We all know that Microsoft has announced the general availability of Office 365 but word is that at the same time they will be making Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 available as well. According to Tom Warren at WinRumors the service pack will be available for download at 9AM PST and all language versions of the ...
Not Happy with Android Tablet OEMs are Looking to Windows 8
As much as non-iPad tablet makers might like the world to believe that Android ice cream based tablets are selling like hotcakes and looking to give Apple a headache in the tablet market just as they have in the smartphone market, the truth is more of the opposite. Whether it is RIM slashing sales expectations ...
Microsoft Bets on Windows Phone as Mobile Gaming Solution
Microsoft has made it quite clear – it doesn’t see any long term market for standalone handheld gaming devices, instead they have been positioning Windows Phone with Xbox sLive integration as the more viable solution. This is of course in contrast to both Sony and Nintendo that both believe that their dedicated handhelds offer a ...
Microsoft Should Buy RIM? Please, Get a Grip
As a Canadian, I feel bad that RIM is circling the drain, It is, after all, supposed to be one of Canada’s premier tech companies. But on the other hand, the company is responsible for its own troubles, so I’m reminding myself not to be too sympathetic. However, following a post on Bloomberg there has ...
Happy Shipping No. 5 Mozilla, Love IE Team
There might be some serious rivalry between browser makers, but that didn’t stop the IE team from being gracious and sending the Firefox team a congratulatory cake on shipping version 5 of their browser. [Cross-posted at Winextra]
ChevronWP7 to Release Approved Windows Phone Unlocker
If you remember, just after the first Windows Phones hit the shelves a small team of talented people: Rafael Rivera, Chris Walsh, and Long Zheng, got together and released a tool called ChevronWP7. The idea was to provide a way for developers who wanted to create apps for Windows Phone without having to deal with ...
First Came $25 Million for College Scholarships Now Microsoft Says K-12 Next on List
A few days ago Microsoft announced that along with Boeing, they would be putting up $25 million each towards funding college scholarships in Washington State. Now Microsoft has announced that they will be looking into ways that the company can assist with K-12 education. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s chief legal council had this to say in ...
Making sense of Apple’s OS X Lion – the $29 operating system
On Monday, at this year’s Apple WWDC conference, the company announced a lot of interesting things including their core operating system, OS X Lion, and for the most part it seems that not much attention was paid to it. That was until they announced that it would be available to the public on July 2011 ...
nVidia’s Poison Pill Against takeovers: Microsoft
It has just come to light via an interesting post at Information Week by Paul McDougall that Nvidia and Microsoft have a bit of a deal going on regarding any future acquisition of Nvidia. Apparently in order to make itself less of an appetizing takeover target Nvidia has agreed with Microsoft that the company from ...
