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...
We learn this week that the iPhone 5 is a “sight to behold” even though no one writing about it has actually beheld one. Far from dampening rumors, that vacuum of fact causes them to swell and blossom. This week, the iPhone 5 will be bigger and thinner and rounder and delayed. Doom for...
Apple’s not selling a new iPhone this quarter — and it won’t even be mentioning one, either. For weeks, Apple fans have been resigned to the fact that the iPhone 5 would not hit store shelves in September, but they have been hoping for a sign from the company this month that the launch...
Apple’s iPhone 5 will launch on October 15, according to the CEO of France Telecom, as anticipation surrounding the device continues to build. “If we believe what we have been told, the iPhone 5 will be released on 15 October,” said Stephane Richard, France Telecom chief. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company has not released any...
It is estimated nearly a million TouchPads have been sold by HP, making it one of the top-selling tablets behind the iPad. True they were sold at ridiculously low prices, but there are a lot of buyers happily using a darn good tablet as a result. One of the strengths of the webOS platform...
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...