Microsoft drops 'risky' Windows 8 preview on World The Register | Microsoft has released to the World near-final code for - its . | Officially called a Consumer Preview, but actually a beta, the next Windows 8 milestone will be the release candidate followed by release to manufacturing, Windows Division president Steven Sinofsky said Wednesday. | Microsoft chose...
Microsoft unveils Windows 8 for public test Deccan Chronicle | Microsoft Corp unveils the first widely available test version of Windows 8 on Wednesday, giving the public the first chance to try out the slick, new-look operating system it hopes will restore the company's fading tech supremacy. | Windows 8, as the first Microsoft operating system compatible wi...
>Smarter TV: Living Room as Digital Hub From Samsung and Microsoft to Apple and Google Wired News | Tim Baxter, President of Samsung Electronics America. Photo by Tim Carmody/Wired.com | NEW YORK — Just forget about its giant screen for a moment. | Yes, that new plasma TV is gorgeous, that LED backlight efficient, and that refresh rate ridi...
3D without the glasses and more innovation at Microsoft TechFest The Business Review Puget Sound Business Journal by Emily Parkhurst , Staff Writer Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 2:53pm PST - Last Modified: Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 3:22pm PST Related: (5 photos) BUSINESS JOURNAL PHOTO | Marcus R. Donner | Chris Harrison demonstrates a ...
Microsoft Pitches Windows 8 to CIOs at CeBIT Newsfactor COO Kevin Turner told CIOs attending the CeBIT conference in Hanover, Germany, Tuesday that the ongoing commercialization of IT is a challenge that they need to embrace. | "The shift in technology is quite profound," Turner said Tuesday. "For the fir...
Can Google Play Microsoft to Beat Apple's iTunes? Forbes | Google‘s decision today to turn its utilitarian-sounding Android Marketplace into Google Play may perplex some observers, who wonder if it really wants to make all 450,000 apps on the platform sound frivolous. But it’s clearly a pointed...
Microsoft releases to manufacturing SQL Server 2012 ZDNN | By Mary Jo Foley | March 6, 2012, 9:02am PST | Summary: Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012 has RTM’d. It will be generally available starting April 1. | Microsoft has , as of March 6, the day before the . | So when can you get the bits? If you...
Microsoft to add another preview build, more testers for Hadoop on Azure ZDNN | By Mary Jo Foley | March 6, 2012, 9:02am PST | Summary: Microsoft’s coming second technology preview build of Hadoop on Azure may result in the product being released later than March 2012. | Microsoft is adding a second, previously undisclos...
Discount drives iPad 2 sales ahead of new model launch Gulf News | Dubai: Apple aficionados are clamouring to buy iPad 2s despite a new launch by the company on Wednesday — rumoured to be the third generation of the tablet computer. | Apple has lowered the prices of the 16GB and 32GB iPad 2 by $50 (Dh184) to $449 and $549, respectively, encouraging buyers to step in, and analysts say that demand is showing...
Exclusive: Netflix in talks for cable partnership Canada Dot Com | (Reuters) - Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings has quietly met with some of the largest U.S. cable companies in recent weeks to discuss adding the online movie streaming service to their cable offerings, according to sources familiar with matter. | In what would ratchet up its competition with HBO, the talks could lead to Netflix becoming a...
