Where does a multibillion dollar software company get developers to create the first apps for its revolutionary new flagship software? Why, by recruiting college interns on their summer breaks, of course! It’s a fact that when Microsoft was looking for sample apps for Windows 8, they tapped that very workforce. And a session at...
Did you hear about the hot new Windows Phones announced this week? No? That’s understandable. This week’s relentless Windows 8 drumbeat was momentarily interrupted by a Windows Phone whisper, before the nation’s best-loved, least-used mobile OS disappeared once again into the background. Windows Phone is a terrific mobile OS. I’ve been using a Windows...
ANAHEIM, Calif. (CNNMoney) — The biggest change that Microsoft unveiled in Windows 8 wasn’t the radically different user interface or the fact that it will be coming to tablets. It was that its long-held duopoly with Intel is coming to an end. For the first time in its history, Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) will...
Courtesy of Laptop By Mark SpoonauerLaptop It hit me while performing a three-finger salute on Microsoft’s “reimagining” of Windows. I was shutting down an unresponsive program using Windows 8′s new Task Manager – this is a developer preview, after all – and I noticed two icons for Internet Explorer, one white and the other blue....
While Microsoft has been describing its coming Windows 8 operating system as a single-platform solution across devices, and has this week touted its support for Windows 7 apps, it turns out the truth is a bit more complicated. In a conference call Wednesday with analysts, Microsoft Windows division President Steven Sinofsky revealed that Windows...
You make Windows 8 sad. (Credit: Chip Hazard) “Poor Windows 8. You totally crashed out, but you’re so adorable. I just can’t be mad at you.” That may be the new reaction to operating system failure when Windows 8 finally reaches the masses. Chip Hazard posted a picture on Facebook of the new Blue...
Windows 8 will ship with a number of small but important security tweaks Microsoft hopes will make it a harder target for the viruses, worms and Trojans that were able to subvert older versions of the operating system. Most of the security features mentioned by Windows president Steven Sinofsky at this week’s Build conference...
Microsoft executives said this week that Windows 8 tablets using an ARM chip will not be able to run legacy Windows 7 applications, with the possible exception of Office. This week, Microsoft held an analyst meeting in conjunction with BUILD, its developer conference in Anaheim, where the company talked more about Windows 8 and...
Windows 8 running on a desktop, just as it can run on a tablet, or notebook computer. (Credit: Microsoft) This week saw the latest step towards the release of Windows 8, the next major version of Microsoft’s operating system that represents one of the biggest changes in the history of the platform. At its...
Windows 8 running on a desktop, just as it can run on a tablet, or notebook computer. (Credit: Microsoft) This week saw the latest step towards the release of Windows 8, the next major version of Microsoft’s operating system that represents one of the biggest changes in the history of the platform. At its...