Windows 9 Could Unify Desktop, Tablet And Smartphone Apps
Not always do you see Microsoft talk about future strategy in such detail, but the company was in a candid mood at the 2013 financial analyst meeting that took …
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Prepare For An Onslaught Of Tablets With Plastic Casings
It stands to reason that cost is a defining factor for a lot of users. While many can (and will) drop hundreds of smackers to get their hands on …
Microsoft Said To Be Preparing A 1.5-Inch Touchscreen Display Watch
If there is one thing this new-look Microsoft is keen on, it’s innovation. While the software titan has always traditionally invested a fair amount on research and development, but …
PC Components Industry Expected To See A 50 Percent Increase Later This Year
Contrary to what others would like you to believe, the Windows operating system depends as much on the hardware industry as the industry does on Microsoft’s platform. It may …
Windows Embedded 8 Industry Official Launched
While consumer platforms remain the primary focus of Microsoft, businesses and enterprises are not far from the picture either. Linux and its variants may have found raging success in …
Tablet And Smartphone Growth Will See DRAM Demand Jump 30% This Year
It was not very long ago that DRAM makers were in hot waters with increasing supplies that left prices freefalling. The reason was the slow sales of desktop and …
VIZIO Also Introduces Three All-In-One Computers
VIZIO Launches Four Sleek New Windows 8 Laptops
Windows Phone 7.8 Does Not Bring Any Noticeable Performance Improvements
Acer Reconfirms Its Plans To Launch A Windows RT Tablet In 2013
As technology companies go, Acer is one of the more temperamental ones around. Its executives have been very, shall we say, blunt about the fact that Microsoft was entering …
Analyst: PC Industry Is Partially To Blame For Slow Windows 8 Uptake
Windows 8 and touchscreens in the same sentence has become quite a debated topic. There is little doubt that Microsoft’s latest operating system is built from the grounds up …
Microsoft Files In A Patent For An Antibacterial Touchscreen
Surprising not many technology companies thought of this before, but with touchscreen gaining mainstream acceptance, Redmond has jumped in and started work on a new technology that supposedly keeps …
Microsoft Is Aware Most Windows XP Users Will Move To Windows 7
Redmond is planning to pull the plug off Windows XP next year, and while it hopes users will upgrade to a newer version of Windows — even the company …
Research: 32% Enterprise Users Want Windows On Their Next Tablet
Mark this as a win for Windows on tablets. Countless Surface Pro reviews are floating up on the web as these words are written, but regardless of what their …
With the 7-inch Market Continuing to Grow, is Microsoft Missing Out Here?
While the Microsoft Surface RT has far from been a total failure – given its limited retail position throughout most of Q4 2012 – it hasn’t exactly hit it …
Microsoft Betting On Corporate Uptake Of Surface Pro
The Redmond technology giant is set to unleash the Pro variant of its Surface tablet on February 9. And an awful lot hangs on that upcoming slate — to …
Windows Phone Shows Strong Growth, Market Share Doubles In Europe
Finally, some confirmation to what analysts have been saying. The Windows Phone platform is finally starting to kick into high gear with strong showings in 2012, particularly in Europe. …
Surface RT Soon To Be Available In 13 More Countries
Microsoft’s first tablet, the Surface RT was launched to great fanfare on October 26 last year. The tablet had a bit of a wavering start, a lot of it …
Analyst: Windows 8 Will Negatively Impact The PC Industry In 2013
Rarely do you see a software product with so much riding on it. While Windows 8 was being developed, several analysts, company executives and industry leaders pinned their hopes …
Huawei’s Windows Phone 8 Smartphone Ascend W1 To Cost $250
Boy, talk about bringing Windows Phone 8 to the masses. The Chinese mobile phone giant unveiled its first smartphone powered by Microsoft’s mobile OS at the Consumer Electronics Show …