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Microsoft Offers Up Windows 8 Preview At Conference

Microsoft has offered a sneak peak of its Windows 8 operating system at its BUILD conference

13 years ago

Windows 8 Video Shows Eight Second Boot-up

Microsoft is developing Windows 8 to make it boot up in just 8 seconds, according to a new video

13 years ago

Tablet Sales Impacting PC Growth, Gartner Warns

PC shipments in 2011 have been impacted by both tablets and economic concerns, an analyst claims

13 years ago

Samsung And Microsoft Prep Windows 8 Tablet

Samsung and Microsoft are reportedly set to unleash a quad-core tablet running Windows 8

13 years ago

Microsoft To Show Off Windows 8 Beta Next Week

As Microsoft readies Windows 8 for developers, rumours spread about a partnership with Samsung

13 years ago

Seagate Hits 4TB Storage On Desktop

Enough storage in a $250 desktop device to store the collected knowledge of a top TV quiz contestant

13 years ago

Hyper-V Desktops On Microsoft’s Windows 8

Microsoft is working to enable Hyper-V virtualisation technology inside the upcoming Windows 8 OS

13 years ago

October Launch For Windows Intune Cloud Service

Microsoft is readying its Windows Intune IT management service for general availability in October

13 years ago

Windows 8 Ribbon Interface Defended

Microsoft has used its official Windows 8 blog to defend the ribbon interface in its forthcoming OS

13 years ago

Leaks Reveal Microsoft Links To Tunisian Regime

A leaked diplomatic cable has reveal concern over Microsoft's links to the former Tunsian regime

13 years ago

The Personality Clash Between Windows 8 And OS X

Microsoft Windows 8 and Apple Mac OS X each provide a window into the two companies' distinct takes on mobility…

13 years ago

HP Without PCs Will Lose Face With SMBs

The death of HP's TouchPad has been chaotic, says Nicholas Kolakowski, but spinning off its PC business will hurt the…

13 years ago

New HTC Windows Phones But Tracker Lawsuit Looms

HTC offered a glimpse of Mango devices – just as a lawsuit landed claiming illicit Microsoft user tracking

13 years ago

Microsoft Silverlight 5 Release Candidate Appears

Microsoft has delivered a release candidate (RC) of Silverlight 5 to help developers prepare for launch

13 years ago

Windows 8 Prepped For Both Tablets And PCs

Microsoft is developing Windows 8 so that it can run equally well on a PC or a tablet device

13 years ago

Microsoft Reveals Windows 8 Storage Format Plans

Microsoft has revealed how Windows 8 will be interoperable between two popular file-storage formats

13 years ago

Windows 8 Changes To File Management Revealed

Microsoft's Windows 8 will offer file management tweaks changing how files are copied between locations

13 years ago

Ingres’ Big Data Battle Vectors On Microsoft

Ingres has ported its Vectorwise system to Windows to offer fast Big Data analysis to all sizes of firms

13 years ago

Rumours Of Cut-Down Windows Phone ‘Tango’ OS

Microsoft is supposedly preparing Windows Phone "Tango", a cut-down "Mango" for lower-end phones

13 years ago

Windows 8 To Include USB 3.0 Support

Microsoft has revealed more details about Windows 8, including that it will support USB 3.0

13 years ago

Microsoft Touts Bing ‘We’re In’ App For Win Phone 7

Microsoft has launched the Bing 'We're In' app so Windows Phone 7 users can find their friends

13 years ago

Android And Win8 Only Real iPad Challenge Says Dell

CEO Michael Dell names two platforms as only options to the iPad tablet, calling remaining OSs “other noise”

13 years ago

Microsoft Windows 8 To Include App Store

Microsoft has confirmed that the forthcoming Windows 8 operating system will include an app store

13 years ago

Nokia Claims Motorola Buy Justifies WinPhone Move

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop says Google's Motorola acquisition justifies his decision to embrace Windows Phone

13 years ago

ViewPad Tablet Runs Android Over Windows 7

ViewSonic's ViewPad 10pro runs Android "Gingerbread" in Windows 7, thanks to application virtualisation

13 years ago

Microsoft’s Office 365 Outage Hits US Customers

Microsoft’s Office 365 was hit by outages in North America but Europe and the Pacific Rim were not affected

13 years ago

Microsoft Continues Slide Down Smartphone Slope

Not good news for Nokia after Gartner found that Microsoft's smartphone share continues to tumble

13 years ago

Nokia Betting The Farm On US Windows Phone Market

Nokia will not launch any Symbian phones in the US, doubling down on its Microsoft Windows Phone gamble

13 years ago

Microsoft Blow As Smartphone Exec Quits

Microsoft is losing the executive who helped develop the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system

13 years ago

Windows 7 Approaching Top Spot OS Slot

Analysts say Windows 7 is gaining fast on the venerable Windows XP - and leaving Vista well behind

13 years ago