For the past few months, Microsoft has been holding impromptu “Smoked by Windows Phone” competitions at industry events and its retail stores, challenging users of other smartphones to take on the efficiency of Windows Phone. It’s been an amazingly successful campaign for Microsoft for a simple reason: Windows Phone really
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Microsoft announced today that the latest version of its Windows Phone SDK, 7.1.1, is now available. This is the version that can target “Tango” class devices (as well as all Windows Phone handsets to date). Will this be the final major release of Microsoft’s Silverlight-based Windows Phone development tools?
“The
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In the most recent episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Mary Jo Foley, Leo Laporte, and I discuss why Microsoft went in the direction it did with Windows 8, Microsoft’s relationship with the iPad, whether there will be an e-reader version of Windows 8, Office 15 and the mysterious Tech
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As I revealed exclusively on the Windows Weekly podcast back in January, Nokia’s new flagship Windows Phone handset, the Lumia 900, will cost just $99 when it becomes available to the public. But Nokia missed its originally release date of March 18 by three weeks: The device will now ship
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Writing a book requires you to endure tight schedules, hard work, a constantly changing topic, and negligible financial rewards. It’s a dream job, assuming of course that there’s something horribly wrong with you.
I dream about Windows 8.
And I mean that literally. In the fitful moments before I wake up—and I’m
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In the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, we see a hint of the customization capabilities that Microsoft will be adding to the final release of the product. This includes, among other things, the ability to choose between a limited handful of Start screen themes. And while we know more choices are
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Apple’s new iPad was roundly cheered by the tech press when the device arrived, but in the week or so since, most have experienced some interesting and less than positive issues. It’s still “resolutionary.” But was the new iPad rushed to market?
It’s always interesting to me how things can look
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On Monday, ATT will announce the availability of the eagerly-awaited Nokia Lumia 900, a high-end yet inexpensive device that the company’s sales agents are allegedly drooling over internally. Selected as Microsoft’s premier carrier partner for Windows Phone, ATT sells more of these handsets than any other company. And yet, as
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In response to Microsoft’s denunciation of a recent report in which Google Chrome allegedly took the top spot for one day over the past weekend, the company at the center of this controversy on Thursday issued a refutation of its own. StatCounter says that its data is valid and questions
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While Windows Home Server fans such as myself are stressing over the possibility that Microsoft will cancel this solution, it occurs to me that the future needn’t be so uncertain: Windows 8 provides virtually all of the features that make WHS special, while overcoming the issues that made a server Article source: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/replace-windows-home-server-windows-8-142654
Responding to the points I made last week in Compete Report: Apple iPad (2012), Microsoft this week reiterated that Windows 8 will indeed support high DPI displays just like the Retina display on the iPad. And Microsoft claims that Windows 8 will benefit from a more diverse portfolio
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Some stories are too juicy not to report, despite evidence that they’re too good to be true. So it is with recent reports that Google’s Chrome was briefly the most-often-used web browser, Microsoft says. And the reason is simple: The methodology used to measure Chrome’s alleged recently success is inaccurate.
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While it’s very clear that Microsoft is focusing largely on the new Windows Runtime and its associated Metro-style apps and Start screen in Windows 8, the software giant has also provided a number of useful and desirable updates to the classic desktop environment as well. This is good news for
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I’ve written numerous articles about the Windows 8 Consumer Preview already, and among them are some great guides to getting around in the new user interface–if I do say so myself–whether you’re using a touch-screen tablet (unlikely) or a traditional mouse- and keyboard-based PC.
But I’m impressed the unending cavalcade of
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Fifteen months after its debut, Windows Phone is heading to China, the most heavily populated country on earth. Microsoft announced this morning that the first Windows Phone handset aimed at the China market is now available in that country, with more to follow in the weeks and months ahead.
“To mark
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And if you’re really good, you may even notice a difference. Certainly, Microsoft’s uninformative blog post about this release does nothing to clear up what’s new:
“Today, we released an update for Windows Live Essentials 2011 in all 48 languages,” Microsoft’s Steven Abrahams writes in the post. “This minor release
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Apple on Monday announced that it sold 3 million copies of its third generation iPad tablet since the device’s debut the previous Friday, a pace that is faster than previous iPads but much slower than that of the iPhone 4S. Additionally, Apple announced its first stock dividend since the early
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Microsoft executives have been hinting about an October 2012 release for Windows 8 since last September. But with a new Bloomberg report renewing this claim and citing “people with knowledge of the schedule,” perhaps it’s time to start taking this rumor a bit more seriously.
Microsoft president Steven Sinofsky first floated
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I make no apologies for my refusal to use Microsoft Outlook, but hundreds of millions of business users and consumers rely on this multi-functional solution every day. In fact, it’s the center of many people’s computing experience, period, the dashboard by which they manage their daily lives. For these folks,
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A quick check of my Wakoopa profile reveals something interesting: I now use Microsoft OneNote more frequently than almost any other Windows application and in fact use it to create all of the articles, blog posts, news articles, and editorials that appear on this site. (I still use Microsoft
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Last week, Microsoft confirmed that the next generation Xbox video game console will not be announced or released in 2012. Instead, Microsoft will continue focusing on the current console, the Xbox 360, which will soon complete its seventh year in the market, an eon in video game time.
Previously, rumors suggested
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In the second in a series of articles detailing the new features in each of the Office 15 applications, I take a look at Microsoft Word 15, the Office word processor. This is one of the most venerable of the Office applications, and the one I’ve used the most over
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In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Mary Jo Foley, Iyaz Akhtar and I discussed the Office 15 Technical Preview, continued excitement and angst over the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, why Microsoft has no plan B in case Windows 8 fails, the ongoing saga of Windows Phone upgrades, Google
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Apple’s latest iPad is a largely evolutionary device with an amazing, revolutionary new screen that puts it leagues above the competition. Already the best of the tablets, the new iPad extends Apple’s lead and puts Android and Windows 8 on notice: The bar has been raised yet again.
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With the 2012 iPad, Apple has most done as little as it needs to do, offering the most subtle of evolutionary updates imaginable, but for one key and important difference: This new iPad offers four times the screen resolution of its predecessor, the iPad 2. And that one feature alone
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I was looking at Office 15 on a normal desktop computer with a large screen, and two things stand out that weren’t obvious on a tablet. One, the Office 15 applications look an awful lot like the Zune PC software. Are they based on the same technologies? Or is this
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I shouldn’t have been surprised by the mountain of feedback and questions I received in the wake of my article Microsoft Office 15 Preview. But I was. My intention was to quickly examine this pre-release Office suite on a Windows 8 tablet and move on until some future date
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Google may still dominate the online search market, but it will copy features from Microsoft Bing and Apple’s iPhone 4S feature Siri in a bid to maintain that dominance. This sudden change comes after Google downplayed the advantages these other systems have over the current brute force approach employed by
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I don’t know what your email is like, but mine is a disaster. Over the years, I’ve tried to fine-tune the process and become more efficient. But with hundreds of emails arriving every day to multiple accounts, I’ve resigned myself to some reduced expectations. I’m never going to be able
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Microsoft on Tuesday issued its standard monthly set of software patches, and by all accounts it was a relatively uneventful month, with six patches, only one of which is rated as Critical. But that Critical fix is a big one, a remote desktop flaw that the software giant essentially promised
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Lost somewhat in all the excitement around the Windows 8 Consumer Preview from almost two weeks ago is that Microsoft also released the Windows Server 8 Beta. This product is no less revolutionary than its client-side stable mate, and although I haven’t written much about this release yet, I’ve already
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Just two weeks after Yahoo! revealed that it had threatened Facebook with legal action over its alleged misuse of 10 patents, the ailing online firm pulled the trigger: This week, Yahoo! sued Facebook for patent infringement.
“Unfortunately, the matter with Facebook remains unresolved and we are compelled to seek redress
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Soon, Internet Explorer 10 won’t be the only Metro-style browser in Windows 8 Town.
The most often cited complaint about Windows Phone is that platform’s supposed lack of apps, and many critics are looking ahead to the similarly architected Windows 8 and wondering if this is going to suffer
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With the initial rush of excitement over the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview finally starting to slowly wear out, we can look back at our second week with a nearly feature complete version of the OS. And since I’ve completed some serious writing on Windows 8 Secrets, it’s
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While we debate whether Microsoft port its Office productivity suite to the iPad and Android-based tablets, a third-party has done just that, offering both to consumers for free. But thanks to complaints from its partners, Microsoft is crying foul, and threatening legal action against OnLive. Is this solution really too
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Ray Ozzie Says We’re in the Post-PC Era
Microsoft’s first and thus far only attempt to replace cofounder Bill Gates with another tech visionary failed mightily, and now that failure is speaking out about his thoughts on the post-PC world. Which is
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In January, I wrote about my decision to migrate my personal email, contacts, and calendar account from Google/Gmail to Microsoft’s Hotmail service in What I Use: Hotmail And Exchange For Email, and then provided an update a few weeks later in From Gmail To Hotmail: An Update. For
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As I wrote in my Windows 8 Consumer Preview articles tsunami last week, Microsoft has hidden a fun power user tasks context menu behind the new Start thumbnail tip in the new OS. To access it, move the mouse cursor into the lower-left corner of the screen–where the Start button
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Microsoft this week announced that it has completed the development of SQL Server 2012, the next major release of its data platform. Code-named Denali and in development for several years, SQL Server 2012 will become broadly available next month, according to the company.
“Data is being generated faster than ever before,
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Microsoft this morning released its first batch of new Windows 8 apps to the Windows Store, fulfilling a promise to add new apps over time. Key among the new entries, of course, is one of my own most eagerly awaited apps, for the Amazon Kindle eBook reader.
Here’s what you need
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While I published everything you need to know about the upcoming Windows Phone update, codenamed “Tango,” about a month ago in Windows Phone in 2012, there are those who won’t believe anything about a Microsoft product until they confirm the information themselves. So with regards to Tango, they have
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Windows Phone users who prefer Google over Microsoft’s Bing offering got a nice treat this week: The online giant has released a significant new Google Search app for Windows Phone 7.5.
According to a post on the Google Mobile Blog, Google Search for Windows Phone 7.5 provides the following features:
Description:
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Google on Tuesday announced a new online service called Google Play that consolidates previously separate entertainment-based online services into a single location that’s easily accessible by users of the company’s Android mobile OS. Ultimately, what we’re looking at here is a rebranding of the Android Marketplace that better positions the
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Microsoft today highlighted some of the Xbox LIVE titles that will ship in 2012 on the Xbox 360 console and Windows Phone. Of course, this has me wondering: What about the new Xbox LIVE titles for Windows?
Microsoft announced a slew of new Xbox LIVE titles for this year in separate
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I’ve been using the Windows 8 Consumer Preview for over a week now, and have been listening to the bitching and moaning on Twitter and via email since, oh, about 6:45 am PT last Wednesday. (You know, roughly speaking.) And as I write up front in my Windows books, maybe
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With the tech world swooning under the spell of the recently released Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server 8 Beta, Microsoft this week dropped also discussed another Windows 8 version aimed at the embedded market. Dubbed Windows Embedded Standard 8, this product is also now available in a pre-release
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There have been a few misunderstandings about the Windows 8 system requirements and recommendations and how they relate to those for Windows 7. Let’s review.
First, you may recall that Microsoft has been saying for some time now that the Windows 8 system requirements will be identical to those of Windows
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While installing Microsoft’s latest operating system on a netbook may seem like throwing good money after bad, Windows 8 still offers some advantages even on these lowly PCs. Here’s a guide to what you can expect to gain–and lose–by using Windows 8 on a netbook.
By way of definition, a netbook
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In the wake of a controversial Apple job creation claim, Microsoft has issued a related claim of its own: The software giant says that its cloud computing efforts will directly result in the creation of nearly 14 million new jobs worldwide by 2015.
“The cloud is going to have a huge
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In the Windows 8 Developer Preview, users were forced to make do with a single Start screen theme and only limited other means by which they could customize the OS to their liking. In the Consumer Preview, however, the ways in which you can make a Windows 8 system fully
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With September 2011′s Windows 8 Developer Preview, only clean installs of the OS were supported. But with the advent of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, eager enthusiasts can now choose an in-place upgrade install as well.
Note: This guide will examine the in-place process that utilizes the traditional, media-based upgrade
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You don’t have to be paying a lot of attention to know that power users have a few key complaints about Windows 8, with most centering on the supposedly limited Metro environment and the ways in which Microsoft has changed the Windows desktop. But look a bit closer at the
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview: One Day, One Million Downloads
You’ve perhaps heard the myth that Windows is on the decline, so let me put that bit of silliness to rest. In its first day of availability, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview was
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Windows old-timers know that Microsoft has traditionally supported two general types of Windows installations, a clean install and in-place upgrade. Over the years, the processes for doing each have been evolved, and of course the types of install media we could use have evolved too, from CD to DVD, and
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Looking at Windows 8 broadly, I think the most curious and interesting thing about this new operating system is its dual–and dueling–personalities. This is most obviously seen in Windows 8′s new Windows runtime, or WinRT, which provides a Metro-style environment and the Start screen in addition to the more traditional
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So this is interesting. I’ve been using the Windows 8 Consumer Preview since Monday on a Samsung Series 7 tablet, as you may know, but since yesterday have been loading it on the various PCs I use regularly. And one difference has stood out.
In this case, a picture really is
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Microsoft first created the Windows Experience Index (WEI) for Windows Vista, designing it as a system in which the performance of several key hardware components are rated and an overall score is provided. (That overall score matches that of the lowest-scoring component, the theory being that the weakest link in
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OK, I know you’re all excited to get your hands on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. By the end of this week, I’ll post installation guides for Windows 8 that cover clean install, upgrading from Windows 7, Push Button Reset, and, best of all, the new web-based installer.
But there’s
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Microsoft on Wednesday released its long-awaited Beta version of Windows 8, which the company is calling the Consumer Preview. The previous milestone, the so-called Developer Preview, arrived last September. And given the quality of this new release, one might logically expect that a 2012 release to manufacturing (RTM) is pretty much
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The way in which users (and of course PC makers) apply the Windows OS to their hardware has gotten significantly streamlined over the years. In Windows XP and previous Windows versions, the Setup application used a blunt force approach, slowly copying archived files to the disk and then unarchiving them,
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According to Microsoft, there are literally of thousands of improvements in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. But if you’re familiar with the previous milestone, the Developer Preview, and only want a high-level view of the major changes, go no further. Here’s a comprehensive list of the most important changes Microsoft
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In the past few weeks, screen captures emerged showing that the Start button, a fixture in Windows since 95 when it debuted in Windows 95, would be removed from Windows 8. Enthusiasts acted as if it were a betrayal, a final nail in the coffin of the desktop UI they
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For weeks now I’ve been biting my tongue, watching what I say and write about the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. But with the release today of this most eagerly-awaited Windows 8 milestone, the shackles are off. This freedom takes a few different forms for me. I can reveal that work
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On the opening day of Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain on Sunday, various hardware makers announced new quad-core phone designs, all based on Google’s fourth and latest Android version, Ice Cream Sandwich. HTC, LG Electronics, Samsung, and a host of smaller players all announced new devices on
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As expected, smart phone giant Nokia unveiled the Lumia 610 at a press conference on Monday morning, expanding its line of Windows Phone handsets to new markets. Also, Microsoft announced a Skype Beta for Windows Phone and the pending release of Windows Phone “Tango.”
“Nokia has come back with a vengeance,”
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I’ve been working on the numerous articles I’ll be posting about the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on February 29, and while there’s not much more I can say about that now, I do have some final thoughts about Windows 8 heading into this momentous milestone.
In
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In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and I discuss some news in the week leading up to the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft/Nokia rumors for Mobile World Congress, a Visual Studio 11 Beta sneak peek, Office for iPad rumors and thoughts, more
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An often irreverent look at this week’s other news …
Windows 8 SKUs Revealed?
My buddy Stephen Chapman notes in a blog post this week that HP might have inadvertently spilled the beans on the SKUs (stock keeping units, or what I call “product versions”) Microsoft intends to sell for Windows
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While Microsoft and its hardware partners race to deliver a suitable Windows 8-based tablet experience by the end of 2012, the innovators at OnLive have accomplished something previously thought impossible: They’ve brought the current version of Windows–and Office, and Adobe Reader and Flash–to the iPad today. And it works surprisingly
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Microsoft on Wednesday filed a complaint with antitrust regulators in Europe, alleging that Google and Motorola Mobility are overcharging for patents that cover basic mobile and computing tasks. The action comes about a week after regulators in both the United States and European Union (EU) approved Google’s $12.5 billion purchase
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I had been posting articles in the 8 Days a Week series pretty faithfully each Sunday for a few months in a row there, but with a cute bout of food poisoning two weeks ago and a family vacation to Barcelona this past week, it’s been almost 20 days Article source: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/8-days-week-consumer-preview-142343
An often irreverent look at this week’s other news, including a Windows 8 product versions revelation, the Windows Server 8 Beta, HP’s coming Windows 8 tablet, Smoked by Windows ads go viral, Nokia sells more Windows Phones than anyone, Visual Studio 11 Beta, Google’s belated Do Not Track button, Motorola Article source: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/wininfo-short-takes-february-24-2012-142354
A decade ago, PC makers and server software makers like Oracle tried to push a concept called thin client computing on unwilling customers. But this week, the first truly brilliant thin client computing solution appeared courtesy of OnLive, which now offers free and subscription versions of a service that
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Microsoft’s official Office Blogs has an interesting post about the creation of its Windows Phone app, called Office Blogs, of course. In the post, Craig Kerwien, the Director of Site Management in the Office Division Product Management Group describes how he went from idea to working app in just a
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It looks like Google’s secretive efforts to bypass the privacy settings in Apple’s Safari aren’t limited to just that browser. Now Microsoft says that Google has similarly bypassed the privacy settings in Internet Explorer. And Google, rather than denying the claim, says instead that it didn’t have much of a
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Microsoft on Tuesday revealed that it will expand the number of supported display languages in Windows 8 by 14, bringing the total to 109. This, the company says, will provide a native language version of Windows for over 4.5 billion people.
The most notable addition, curiously, is UK English: Previously these
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Microsoft this week provided new information about how it will integrate its SkyDrive cloud-storage service with Windows 8 (and previous Windows versions), dramatically improving the interoperability between the two. Put simply, SkyDrive should see a huge surge in usage in the next year or two: This already-useful service is about
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A Stanford researcher discovered that Google was purposefully circumventing the privacy settings in the iPhone’s web browser in order to store cookies that track users’ movements online. As soon as this was revealed publicly, first in a “Wall Street Journal” report, Google stopped the practice. But the question remains:
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Apple this week settled a class action lawsuit that accused the company of shipping its iPhone 4 handset with an antenna design so flawed that users could inadvertently kill the wireless signal simply by holding the device. Apple could ultimately pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to customers who
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A Brazilian tech blog claims that Microsoft will be creating native SkyDrive applications for both Windows and Mac OS X, and burnishing the cloud storage system with paid tiers of up to 100 GB per year. I’ve not independently verified these claims, but given that SkyDrive will be deeply
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In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Mary Jo Foley, Leo Laporte, and I discuss lingering questions in the wake of Microsoft’s WOA revelations, why tech analysts, pundits, and enthusiasts are so often in the dark about Microsoft’s plans these days, more Windows 8 news, some Windows Phone
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This week, Andrew Zarian and I recorded the latest episode of the What The Tech podcast a day late, on Wednesday, because of my travel schedule. And Mary Jo Foley, Leo Laporte, and I recorded the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast on Thursday, as usual, but I had
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Microsoft confirmed on Friday that a rumored change to the Windows logo for Windows 8 is real, confounding tech enthusiasts, virtually all of whom doubted its authenticity. The new logo, which controversially dispenses with the flag motif Microsoft has long used, is a throwback of sorts to the original Windows
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Apple surprised tech enthusiasts this morning with an announcement about a coming Mac OS X update, dubbed Mountain Lion, that will ship this summer. There were absolutely no rumors to indicate such a release was coming, and—given the timing—one can logically assume that Apple is trying to steal some thunder
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This week, Andrew Zarian and I recorded the latest episode of the What The Tech podcast a day late, on Wednesday, because of my travel schedule. And Mary Jo Foley, Leo Laporte and I recorded the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast on Thursday, as usual, but I had
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Cisco announced this week that it would appeal a months-old European Union approval of Microsoft’s $8.5 billion purchase of Skype. The firm isn’t trying to overturn the deal, but is rather asking EU antitrust regulators to place conditions on the purchase that would require Microsoft to make Skype interoperable with
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