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Well, gee whiz. At the D9 conference yesterday afternoon, Windows honcho Steven Sinofsky presided over the first good look anyone outside of Redmond has gotten at “Windows 8.” And it turns out that it has a strikingly new user interface. Maybe the most strikingly new one it’s …
Lookin’ good, Microsoft. Windows 8 is shaping up to be very touchy-feely, as Microsoft’s first official video demo shows. There’s a whole lot of Windows Phone 7 influence here, which makes it look nothing like previous versions of Windows built for PCs.
That being said, Microsoft’s press release states:
“Although the new user
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Rumor has it that Steven Sinofsky–the guy who runs Windows for Microsoft–will show off the next version of Windows at the Wall Street Journal’s “D” conference next week. (I used that possibility as an excuse to write about the Windows 8 I’d like to see for this week’s Technologizer column over on TIME.com.)
Sinofsky will supposedly …
It’s almost an offer worth going back to school for. Microsoft has decided that there’s a very, very good way to make Windows attractive to the kids: Bribery. That’s why they’ve announced a new deal for students that offers, basically, a free Xbox 360 for every Windows PC they buy.
Oh, okay: It’s not quite that easy. For one thing, …
Depending who you ask, you’ll get a different answer about who’s winning the operating system wars. Of course, the Linux people think they’ve won, but here’s the thing–they may be right.
Speaking to Network World, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin asserts that the beloved open-source OS has already beaten Microsoft and …
Oh hey, childhood, early teens, high school, college, post-college and modern day memories. What are you guys all doing here?
An angel of a saint of a man on YouTube has documented the installation of Windows 1.0 followed by an upgrade to every subsequent version of Windows thereafter. He opts for Windows 2000 instead of Windows ME, …
Sony introduced their Move motion controller last year to a fair amount of buzz. While the device arguably had a better launch slate than Kinect, with more than 8 million Kinect sensors sold since its November launch, there’s no question that Microsoft’s revolutionary peripheral trounced the Move at retail. But the device’s chief …
On Nov. 20, 1985, Microsoft released the first version of its flagship computer platform, Windows 1.0, beginning the reign of the world’s most prevalent – and most exasperating – operating system. Today, Windows still dominates the computing platform market, with 92.5% of all computers running a Windows OS. But, as even the most …
News of Facebook and Skype hopping into bed together broke the other week but now it’s official. Skype just announced that Facebook’s News Feed and Phonebook would be integrated into the latest update of Skype for Windows. Sorry, Mac owners, we’re left in the dark on this one.
Besides News Feed and Phonebook integration, Skype …
Reuters reports that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a crowd at the London School of Economics yesterday, "You’ll see new slates with Windows on them. You’ll see them this Christmas."
There’s some speculation that Microsoft’s official unveiling of Windows Phone 7, which is scheduled for next Monday, may contain some information about
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Well how about that? Windows 95 was launched 15 years ago, today.
The cornerstone of its marketing campaign was the Start button, emphasized by the multi-million dollar licensing fee paid to the Rolling Stones for the rights to use the song “Start Me Up” as a promotional tool. Multitasking was also a big selling point.
Other fun …
Be still, my beating heart. ViewSonic will be showing off a 10-inch “ViewPad” tablet with an Intel processor next week that dual boots into both Android and a Microsoft-based operating system. It’s unclear whether the Microsoft part of the equation will be a full version of Windows 7 or the scaled back Windows Embedded Compact 7, which …
