Still No Hands On With the Surface
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Not sure how I missed this, but Wired was present at a private RocketSpace event in San Francisco yesterday. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to developers about the income potential to them if they develop for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Ballmer apparently showed off the highly-anticipated upcoming... Read More
Microsoft Fires Up the Copy Machine Again
Paul Thurott outlines how the new Windows Store will work in Windows 8. He walks through the types of apps, how they are installed, and how they are uninstalled. Looks like the App Store Apple introduced years ago. Source: Paul Thurott’s Windows Supersite for Windows Did you like this? Share it: Read More
Killer Microsoft/Intel Strategy?
Tim Bajarin is reporting for Time that Microsoft and Intel have a strategy to topple Apple’s lock on the tablet business, as well as make inroads into the small notebook market where the Macbook Air is exploding. “The secret weapon is a new form factor often referred to as “hybrids.” These are tablets that can be docked into a keyboard, effectively making them either... Read More
Windows Phone to Outsell iPhone in China
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Source: Techflash Did you like this? Share it: Read More
Windows 8 Allegedly to Debut in October
Bloomberg has heard that Windows 8 will be released in time for the Christmas buying season. Microsoft, “aims to take back sales lost to the iPad and reinvigorate the sluggish PC market,” says Bloomberg. According to Michael Gartenberg of Gartner, Inc., “If they miss the September-October timeframe, they’re going to be stuck without being able to ship anything... Read More
What PC World Thinks They Know About Upcoming Windows 8 Tablets
Jared Newman has posted a nice roundup of the latest rumors re: Windows 8 tablets. It’s interesting that it appears that Lenovo and Samsung will initially be supporting the Intel SOC; the other tablets appear to be running on ARM. The main difference, of course, seems to be that the ARM tabs will have to run Metro UI-optimized apps, while the Intel SOC will run Metro and x86-nased... Read More
Uh-Oh: WP7 Developers Fearing Platform Flop-Aren’t Getting Paid
Appleinsider has discovered that many Windows Phone 7 developers are becoming increasingly concerned that the new WP7 mobile OS has flopped. In fact, developers are not getting paid by Microsoft for their apps that have sold on the WP7 app store, and that MS isn’t even providing analytics to the developers, so they have no idea how many times their apps have been purchased/downloaded.... Read More
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