We do not write about Windows very much, frankly because there is not a ton to write about involving it at the moment. Now there has been a leaked screen shot of what appears to be Windows 8 with a date at the bottom showing 2012. We find it interesting that it says ” Confirm [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Major Update coming to Windows Phone 7 next Fall, Codenamed “Mango”
December 15th, 2010
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Coming off of the news that Windows Phone 7 users will be receiving an update early next year, news now comes that an even bigger update, codenamed “Mango,” may be coming as early as next August or September. ZD Net’s Mary Jo Foley is reporting that this update, which is ostensibly WP 7.5, could be coming [...]
Kinect Why You Shouldn’t Buy One, Or Should You?
December 3rd, 2010
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Do me a favor. Get up out of your computer chair and go make me a sandwich. No? How about, instead of sending your next email, you walk over to your bosses desk and hand deliver him a written note. Don’t feel like doing that, either? So why would you want to perform rudimentary actions [...]
Microsoft Saying Copy and Paste Coming and More to Follow
November 30th, 2010
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Staying on the subject of Microsoft, they are out again announcing that the first update coming next year will be the addition of copy and paste, despite what rumors have been going around the internet. We are all wanting the big ones like save state, multi-tasking, and turn by turn navigation, they say that more [...]
Microsoft Sells 2.5 Million Kinects More Than Expected
November 29th, 2010
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It appears that Microsoft has another hit on their hands with the recent release of the Kinect. The controller free, Xbox motion free gaming is showing to be popular selling 2.5 million units in 25 days. They say they are more than pleased with the amount of the Kinects that they are selling There is [...]
Microsoft to Launch a TV Service, Will it take to long?
November 29th, 2010
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Microsoft seems to be behind the ball on certain products they release. Windows Phone 7 is one of them, nice but a little behind in the time frame. Next we are hearing that Microsoft is trying to start their own TV service to compete with Apple and Google. We are hearing they are in talks [...]
Microsoft on Windows Phone 7 Hacking/Jailbreaking
November 26th, 2010
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The hacking community has been hard at work on getting us a way to sideload apps on the new Windows Phone 7 operating system. Microsoft has taken a different approach this time in locking their OS down, similar to how Apple does with the iPhone. They have come out to tell us their thoughts on [...]
Google Attempts to Buy Twitter?
November 18th, 2010
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So word is on the street from Yahoo Finance that a non-formal offer from Google was offered to Twitter, to buy the company for 2.5 billion dollars and Twitter considered the offer to be insulting. Supposedly another unnamed company offered 4 billion dollars and that offer was shot down also. The talk is that Google [...]
Microsoft Giving Into Some Background Processes
October 30th, 2010
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Microsoft has been a little hush hush when it comes to applications running in the background and letting apps run while the screen is turned off. Apparently, users had to allow special permission to have an app keep running when the screen is off. Friday, Microsoft has changed the policy to allow programs to run [...]
Windows Phone 7 is anyone scared?
February 17th, 2010
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So we have heard the announcement this week, Windows Phone 7 Series has been announced to deploy somewhere in the holiday season this year. There is a lot of talk about what they have shown in their demo and what they are saying that this OS is going to do. There have been times in [...]
