So far, this has been one bad week to make announcements on the Internet. Tuesday was April Fool’s Day, making it hard to separate the facts from the fiction. And yesterday, Amazon stole the show by announcing Fire TV, a major reveal in both the media…
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Today was the first day of Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco, and the company announced the long-awaited return of the Start Menu Windows 8.1’s forthcoming Update 1. That’s not all: Microsoft also announced “Universal Windows apps…
New FlexNet Producer Suite release simplifies subscription, cloud- and usage-based licensing while eliminating the risk of revenue leakage from non-compliant…
Despite the fact that today is April 1, to the best of my knowledge, this is not a joke. A post on ZDNet today reports that at this week’s Build conference in San Francisco, Microsoft may give us some details regarding the next iteration of its flagship…
A new report from Apple Insider uncovers a surprising fact about Apple’s “unapologetically plastic” iPhone 5c; despite the stories of it being a failure or a flop, the less-expensive iPhone actually outsold its competitors on other platforms in…
Last week, Shao Yang, the Chief Marketing Officer of Chinese handset maker Huawei, said in an interview that the company would be pursuing dual-boot Android-Windows phones, set for release in the United States in the second quarter. As it turns out,…
Just a week after news that Microsoft had made arrangements to bring dual-boot Windows and Android handsets to customers in India, Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has informally announced its intention to do the same for customers here in the United…
Two years ago almost to the day, Facebook officially launched one of their first dedicated applications for a desktop platform, Messenger for Windows. Since then, the application has gone on to garner a small, but loyal, user base – all of which are…
The long-rumored Nokia X—the Android-powered, Windows-styled smartphone that many believed would be squashed by corporate parent Microsoft—was unveiled today at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. And not just the Nokia X, but the Nokia…
The Nokia X (code-named Normandy) is finally coming, and there are some more leaked images that seem to prove it. A post on BGR today offers up images first found on Chinese tech forum Coolxap, and they give us a close-up glimpse of the phone’s Windows…
Little by little, more evidence of Microsoft’s initiative to bring its disparate Windows experiences in line with each other keeps hitting the web. Just under 24 hours ago, leaked images of info-slides made by Microsoft for application developers…
Much has been made of the approaching cut-off date for Microsoft’s support of the relatively ancient Windows XP operating system. Since so many offices still rely on XP to run their businesses (not to mention specialized software that maintains customer…
A report on the Verge today suggests that Microsoft may be considering bringing Android apps to its Windows powered devices. If true, it would seem that the company is coming to grips with the reality of its Windows Phone division. Embracing the mentality…
If you’ve always been a fan of Nokia but not of Windows Phone, chances are you’ve been clamoring for the Finnish hardware manufacturer to release a smartphone based off of Android like the rest of the industry has taken to doing. Imagine – a Nokia…
Xbox is a very successful Microsoft brand, and it’s no surprise the company wants to stretch it as far as possible. “Xbox Reader,” though? According to The Verge, Microsoft may be looking to bring a full-fledged e-book, magazine and comic book…
The monthly OS market share reports from NetMarketShare offer a helpful insight the rising and falling fortunes of the various operating systems that connect users to the digital world, and the report documenting the month of January provides some interesting…
The Windows 8.1 Update 1 news keeps coming, and things seem to definitely be improving in the Windows department now that Steven Sinofsky is out. According to Microsoft scene group Wzor, who also leaked news that Windows 8.1 Update 1 would give users…
In the wake of today’s great news for Microsoft’s bank account (and stock market performance), it seems only fitting that we’d also get news about an update to its current operating system, Windows 8.1. A post on ZDNet cites an unnamed but supposedly…
After CES wrapped this month, tech sites and bloggers started talking about how the lack of Windows-focused products signified the beginning of the end for Microsoft and its flagship operating system—though, I disagreed. Today, the company released…
In an ongoing quest to further improve the functionality of the “classic” Windows desktop experience after customers have largely rejected Windows 8′s Start Screen interface, a new screenshot leaked by popular Microsoft leaking group Wzor has…