All the stories tagged with Microsoft
Microsoft is the company behind software like Windows, Microsoft Office and hardware like the Xbox and Kinect. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. MS-DOS was the product that propelled Microsoft towards success, but it is Windows and Office that made it what it is today. Microsoft is currently engaged in a number of projects, including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox, Office and the Azure cloud computing platform. the large majority of desktop computers run on Windows.
Microsoft encourages developers to create more expensive apps
05/27/2011, It looks like Microsoft is encouraging the developers to create more high quality apps that can fetch a higher price from the Windows Marketplace instead of the free or 99-cent commodities that other app stores seem to offer. In a [...]
Kinect controls will play nice with Powerpoint slides
05/27/2011, Microsoft’s Kinect has clearly done a whole lot more than what the software giant imagined – many users have already hacked it to serve other purposes, and some of them are even quite brilliant. Well, today we shall look at [...]
Android helps Microsoft make more money compared to Windows Phone
05/27/2011, Now here is something some of you out there might find hilarious – it seems that Android is actually helping Microsoft earn more dough in their bottom line compared to Windows Phone itself – weird, ain’t it? That is what [...]
Nokia to support Symbian devices until 2016
05/26/2011, Even though we know that Nokia has abandoned Symbian in favor of Windows Phone 7, it looks like it’s going to take them a long time to let go. According to the latest interview Nokia’s CEO, Stephen Elop had with [...]
Windows Live Messenger to be seamlessly integrated with Windows Phone 7
05/26/2011, On the official Windows Live blog, Microsoft recently announced that Messenger will be an integral part of Windows Phone 7 in the future. They mentioned that the next version of Windows Phone (which should be the Mango update) will come [...]
Windows to release a web-based Marketplace with Mango update
05/25/2011, Just like Google did with the Honeycomb update a few months ago, Microsoft will be launching the web-based version of the Windows Marketplace when it releases its Windows Phone 7 Mango update later this year. This will let you browse [...]
Nokia to churn out Windows Phone 7 devices consistently
05/25/2011, After Nokia decided to ditch Symbian and chose Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 to be its operating system of choice, the company has had no choice but to go all in with the new partnership and all in is what they’ve [...]
Taiwanese vendors not chosen to build upcoming Windows tablets?
05/25/2011, According to a report by industry insiders, DigiTimes, it appears that the Redmond giant has dropped its Taiwanese partners (or at the very least, de-prioritized them) from the production of upcoming tablets based on its next generation Windows operating system. [...]
Microsoft retracts Steve Ballmer’s Windows 8 claims
05/25/2011, Apparently Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer let slip more than he was supposed to at the Microsoft Developer Forum in Japan yesterday. Steve Ballmer announced that the next version of Windows would be named Windows 8 and it will be launching [...]
HTC developing Windows Mango phones
05/25/2011, Not too long after we heard that Nokia has several Windows Mango phones in development, along comes HTC CEO Peter Chou to reiterate the fact that the Taiwanese company is also working on their own range of Windows Mango-powered smartphones. [...]
No more new apps in Windows Mobile 6.5 Marketplace after July 15th
05/24/2011, People who still use Windows Mobile 6.5 devices will be receiving a kick in the butt to upgrade their phones soon. Well, indirectly of course. Microsoft has announced that as of July 15th, 2011, developers will no longer be able [...]
WordPress ends support for Internet Explorer 6
05/24/2011, Microsoft has recently congratulated Automattic, the creators of WordPress (one of the most popular blogging platforms around) for their decision to no longer support Internet Explorer 6. You might be thinking – “What sort of madness is this? For a [...]
IE9 on Windows Phone 7 is nearly there, but still lacks Flash
05/24/2011, The Windows Phone Mango update from Microsoft might just have its shipping date revealed sometime this week, as it is already “code complete” according to Joe Marini, Principal Program Manager for IE on Windows Phone, and they are “now debugging, [...]
