Steven Hodson
Latest from Steven Hodson
More Details Regarding the Windows Store Coming in Windows 8
Thanks to some digging by the team over at Windows8italia we have some interesting details about the proposed Windows Store that we could see when Windows 8 ships. Here are the details they have discovered so far (via Bing Translate): Digging through the file system of Windows 8, we discovered the libraries for managing Windows ...
No App Store for Windows 8, it’ll be Just Plain Ol’ Windows Store
In light of the legal wrangling that is going on between Microsoft and Apple over the trademarking of ‘App Store’ one might be lead to believe that the rumors of a Windows App Store were more than just hot air. It turns out that might just be the case. Reports are coming out today that ...
Microsoft’s 2011 Q3 Earnings Are Out, and They Are Big
Microsoft watchers, and I presume Wall Street as well, have been waiting for the announcement of Microsoft’s 2011 Q3 earnings. Well, they are out and the results should have them smiling in the boardroom. From their press release: Microsoft Corp. today announced third-quarter revenue of $16.43 billion for the quarter ended Mar. 31, 2011, a ...
Is Twitter Headed Back to Windows Live?
I’ve written about the lack of Twitter integration on Windows Live and the newer Windows Phone and is something that I’ve been keeping an eye on as well, I was pleased to read this morning on Liveside that this situation could be changing. When the newest version of Windows Live first rolled out, Microsoft had ...
Banned XBox’ers Allowed Back onto XBox Live
Microsoft is well known for bringing down the ban hammer on those Xbox Live users who it feels have abused the network. Microsoft are less well known for lifting that hammer and letting previously banned Xbox consoles back onto the Xbox Live network. In the kerfuffle following the hacking of Sony’s Playstation Network, it seems ...
‘Walshed’ Phones Won’t Update Past NoDo
As Windows Phone customers on the AT&T network are finally getting their updates, Microsoft has come up with a new description for phones that were updated prior to the official roll-out of NoDo. They are called “Walshed phones“. This is because of the ChevronWP7 Updater tool created by Australian developer Chris Walsh that allowed Windows ...
Microsoft to Open Source Kinect SDK?
Yesterday I saw a bit of news that flashed across Twitter that caught my eye immediately. If true, it would have meant that Microsoft was making a really ground-breaking move that would catch a lot of people by surprise. The Twitter message was from developer Joshua Blake and led to a post where he suggested that ...
Stop the Presses: The Windows 8 App Store looks like…Every Other App Store
Now, I realize that there are bloggers out there that will take Microsoft to task over something they have done, or poke fun at Microsoft, in order to get pageviews. Some do it when it is justified, or when seems funny at the moment (we’ve done both) and then there are those like MG Siegler ...
The Death of XP is Neigh as Windows 7 Surpasses it in the U.S.
It was bound to happen, no matter how hard people tried to hold on to a 10 year old operating system. Word came today from Pingdom that Windows 7 has finally surpassed Windows XP in the U.S. As of April Windows 7 has 31.71% of the desktop operating system market whereas Windows XP is now ...
Windows Cupcakes and a PC Showcase
PC Showcase in Miami Microsoft is big on events where tech writers and the such get to play with new hardware sporting Windows software. Such an event called PC Showcase happen this past week in Miami at the Viceroy which by the look of the pictures posted on the Windows Experience Blog was a pretty ...
