If you’re used to freely choosing which browser you use in Windows, brace yourself: Mozilla is claiming that Microsoft is planning to limit user choice for browsers on tablets running Windows 8.
Kinect has drawn a huge amount of interest — not just from gamers but computer scientists, engineers and artists. Now, it seems Microsoft is branching out, because one of its latest research projects offers gesture control powered by just a computer’s speakers, microphone and some inaudible sound.
That story that came via the Korea Herald the other day, proclaiming that LG was getting out of providing Windows Phone 7 hardware? Not so, says LG, although it is “focusing” on Android.
Following Microsoft’s investment in a Nook spin-off and the continued success of Barnes & Noble’s ereading empire, we can expect to see some serious changes in the future. In fact, William Lynch, who heads up Nook, has already let a few of them slip.
Skype’s peer to peer underpinnings are one of those things that everybody knows about, but underneath the surface, Microsoft has made changes to the system; while it’s still peer to peer based, it’s backed up with, of all things, Linux supernodes.
In what some may consider an odd move, Microsoft has just announced that it’s investing $US300 million into a “strategic partnership” with Barnes & Noble to develop the future of ereading.
This has been a long time coming. Heck, we might finally make some headway where our distant sauropod ancestors failed all those millions of years ago. At least, that’s how long it feels like Australians have endured outrageous price differences on products like Microsoft Office and Adobe’s Creative Suite, compared to the United States. While you have the inconvenient option of going overseas for these products, you really shouldn’t have to.
According to the Verge, Microsoft will have a sneak peak of its new music service — codename Woodstock — at this year’s E3.
When you run the numbers on Microsoft’s mobile platform, it doesn’t look good. Despite the debut of Windows Phone 7 about a year and a half ago, the company is losing mobile users faster than it can add them.
