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Microsoft Employee Claims Windows 8 Will Be A “Completely Different” Experience

Whoa, a Microsoft employee just published details on Windows 8 on their blog, claiming it will be “completly different from what folks usually expect of Windows,” [sic] and that internally, they’re calling it “Windows.next.” Shown above is a leaked Windows server roadmap from last year, that marks 2012 as being the year of a “major…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 11

Has Apple Become Microsoft?

An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal argues that Apple’s love of strategy has overclouded its passion for products. Is Holman Jenkins right that Apple is the new Microsoft, and iTunes is the new Windows? Obviously, the companies are so inherently different both culturally and strategically that it’s easy to dismiss Jenkins’ claim out of…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 10

Windows 7 Murders Vista on Steam

Most of the gamers I knew stuck with XP during the Vista’s time because it drained precious CPU cycles, but that’s not the case here: Steam’s released their latest stats on Windows usage, Windows 7 has already blown past Vista. The stats break down this away: 42.78 percent on XP, 28.53 percent on Windows 7,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 9

Microsoft Blames Your Laptop—Not Windows 7—For Battery Issues

After upgrading to Windows 7, some users saw a new warning message suggesting that they need to replace their laptops’ batteries. Some screamed “bug,” some shouted “conspiracy,’ but Microsoft denies that anything’s wrong. In an entry on Microsoft’s MSDN blog, Windows division President Steven Sinofsky explains that the warning message is a new feature in…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Feb 8

Going On 10, Boy Going For Fifth Microsoft Certification

Say Hello to Marko Calasan. He’s nine years old and lives in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. He’s also Microsoft Certified four times over and working on his fifth certificate. (And he prefers Bing.) This is the type of story that warms your heart but also makes you feel a little bad about yourself.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 6

Another Early Account of How Microsoft Strangled Its Own Tablets

In former VP Dick Brass’s stabbing assault on Microsoft, he pointed to how his tablet projects were strangled to death by competing groups inside the company. So it’s interesting to see the record of infighting go back further. https://gizmodo.com/how-innovation-dies-at-microsoft-5464229 First, Microsoft didn’t give Brass as many engineers as he wanted—just six, instead of the 20…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 4

Microsoft On Claims of Lameness: It’s the Scale, Stupid

After former VP Dick Brass publicly excoriated Microsoft’s management and philosophy in an NYT Op-Ed this morning, the company had three good options: fully discredit his claims, let it pass, or admit shortcomings. Or, I guess, none of the above. https://gizmodo.com/how-innovation-dies-at-microsoft-5464229 Microsoft’s response came in the form of a blog post from the company’s VP…

Tech News John Herrman Feb 4

How Innovation Dies at Microsoft

“Unlike other companies, Microsoft never developed a true system for innovation.” Dick Brass, a former VP at Microsoft, lays out in a scathing NYT op/ed how the company has destroyed its ability to “bring us the future.” It’s insanely fascinating. His anecdotes, from this time running the Tablet PC division at Microsoft—you know, the kind…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 4

Amazon’s Latest Hire Suggests a Kindle Onslaught

Mike Nash, Microsoft’s VP of Windows Platform Strategy had a pretty heady resume at Microsoft—he was the first product manager on Windows NT marketing, among other creds over 19 years there—but he’s bailing for Amazon, to join the Kindle team. He specialized in building ecosystems, and taken in conjunction with Amazon’s purchase of multitouch firm…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 4

Ex-Microsoft Designer’s Work Hints At Potential Multitouch Support For Windows Mobile 7

Here’s the story. Designer Jeremiah Whitaker spent nine months at Microsoft working on Windows Mobile 7 (according to his LinkedIn), and published an example of user experience on his site—which is believed to be from Microsoft. Accompanying the above images, he wrote: “NDA dictates I keep this vague. For a leading cell platform I created…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 1

ExoPC Tablet Looks Familiar, But Similarities End There

The comparisons to another recently revealed tablet are unavoidable, but believe you me the similarities end with the aesthetics. Inside there’s Windows 7, flash support and multitouch. In fact, the more apt comparison is probably “netbook,” as you can see: There’s the Atom N270 processor, running at 1.6Ghz, for example. And then there’s the 2GB…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 31

Microsoft Earnings Saved By Windows 7, Its “Fastest-Selling Operating System in History”

Microsoft made a record revenue numbers last quarter, but only its Windows division did substantially better than last year. In fact, practically every other aspect of Microsoft’s business did worse. Don’t get me wrong, revenue of $19 billion is extremely impressive. But other than the Server business—which was basically flat—all of the growth came from…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 28

Microsoft’s Minimum Required Specs For Windows Mobile 7 Point At High-End Feature-Laden Phones

We’ve been so caught up in the Windows Mobile 7 launch date rumors, we almost forgot about Microsoft’s supposed leaked minimum specifications requirements. After all, this is a company that issued maximum Windows 7 netbook specs. https://gizmodo.com/more-sources-claim-that-windows-mobile-7-will-be-shown-5458031 Supposedly, Microsoft’s weighing down on hardware manufacturers wishing to create tidy little phones for the platform, with the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 28

More Sources Claim That Windows Mobile 7 Will Be Shown Off Next Month, Launch By End of Year

Windows Mobile 7 will most definitely, positively, absolutely be shown off next month at Mobile World Congress, sez CNET. And Digitimes. Despite more conflicting stories than a Brangelina love-saga, I believe there’ll be solid news next month for WinMo fans. https://gizmodo.com/ok-were-bored-now-windows-mobile-7-will-launch-end-of-5454490 It wasn’t going to launch until next year, then the end of this year,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 27

Jon Stewart Fans the Flames of the Apple/Microsoft War by Provoking Bill Gates

Bill Gates is about the most mild-mannered and genuinely nice, um, unbelievably rich head of a multinational monolithic corporation that you could imagine. So why is Jon Stewart antagonizing him with anti-Zune and pro-iPhone barbs? Oh, right. Because it’s funny. Warning: Clips are from Hulu, which means they’re US-only. Sorry, foreigners, but, well: U-S-A! U-S-A!…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jan 26

Windows Three Dot One Dot Com

Feel like revisiting Windows 3.1, but can’t be bothered firing up a time machine, hot tub or otherwise? This web-based OS emulation (simulation?) should do the trick, by which I mean give you crippling flashbacks. [MichaelV via Crunchgear] https://gizmodo.com/screw-iron-man-2-hot-tub-time-machine-will-be-the-sci-5428709

Tech News John Herrman Jan 25

Empire Building: Visualizing Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo

It’s no secret that Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo are always expanding their reaches, slowly but surely adding new products and services into their line-ups. The New York Times’s Nick Bilton took a step back and surveyed their empires. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise to see how much these four behemoths overlap,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 23

Microsoft Finally Gets Around to Fixing 17-Year Old Windows Bug

Talk about procrastination (or rather, ignorance of a fundamental flaw in your OS for nearly two decades): a Google engineer recently discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft’s 32-bit Windows kernel that had been around since 1993. It’s kind of funny that this thing has been around long enough to get a driver’s license, but less so…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 21

Apple Boot Camp 3.1 Update Includes Windows 7 Support

It’s a little behind schedule, but Mac users can now run Windows 7 natively after today’s Boot Camp update. Boot Camp 3.1 supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate. Multiple OS enthusiasts, rejoice! https://gizmodo.com/apple-to-officially-support-windows-7-in-boot-camp-befo-5388074 The software update also adds Magic Mouse and Apple wireless keyboard support and fixes…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 19

Rumor: Windows Mobile 7 Still Zune-Like, Doesn’t Work with Existing Windows Mobile Apps

Windows Mobile 7, which may debut next month, was allegedly handled by Russian Windows Mobile newshound Eldar Murtazin, and he’s talking. There was no mention of the futuristic “gestures” we heard about before, but it was heavy on the Zune: The UI, you see, was actually “more complicated” than the ZuneHD. There’s not much more…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 17

Microsoft Employee Claims Windows 8 Will Be A “Completely Different” Experience

Has Apple Become Microsoft?

Windows 7 Murders Vista on Steam

Microsoft Blames Your Laptop—Not Windows 7—For Battery Issues

Going On 10, Boy Going For Fifth Microsoft Certification

Another Early Account of How Microsoft Strangled Its Own Tablets

Microsoft On Claims of Lameness: It’s the Scale, Stupid

How Innovation Dies at Microsoft

Amazon’s Latest Hire Suggests a Kindle Onslaught

Ex-Microsoft Designer’s Work Hints At Potential Multitouch Support For Windows Mobile 7

ExoPC Tablet Looks Familiar, But Similarities End There

Microsoft Earnings Saved By Windows 7, Its “Fastest-Selling Operating System in History”

Microsoft’s Minimum Required Specs For Windows Mobile 7 Point At High-End Feature-Laden Phones

More Sources Claim That Windows Mobile 7 Will Be Shown Off Next Month, Launch By End of Year

Jon Stewart Fans the Flames of the Apple/Microsoft War by Provoking Bill Gates

Windows Three Dot One Dot Com

Empire Building: Visualizing Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo

Microsoft Finally Gets Around to Fixing 17-Year Old Windows Bug

Apple Boot Camp 3.1 Update Includes Windows 7 Support

Rumor: Windows Mobile 7 Still Zune-Like, Doesn’t Work with Existing Windows Mobile Apps

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