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Yes, Windows 8 will have an app store â€" what else?Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - Aug 18, 2011The question has popped up every once and a while for more than a year: Will Microsoft follow Apple's lead and build an app store into Windows 8? The answer, it seems, is yes. Yes indeed. In a new post on Microsoft's Building Windows 8 blog, ... |
Microsoft confirms app store in Windows 8Computerworld - Gregg Keizer - Aug 18, 2011Computerworld - Microsoft has begun talking about Windows 8 in general terms, reprising a blog-based strategy that it used in the year-long run-up to Windows 7. Microsoft kicked off the "Building Windows 8" blog on Monday, ... |
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Windows 8 will have an app store but will it be called App Store?Los Angeles Times - Aug 18, 2011Microsoft has offered up a few more details on what to expect in Windows 8, its highly anticipated operating system that will run on both PCs and tablet computers. But one addition, if Microsoft can do it right, could be hugely important for Windows 8 ... |
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Windows 8 To Include App StoreInformationWeek - Paul McDougall - Aug 18, 2011Microsoft's next PC operating system will offer features users might ordinarily expect to find on a tablet or smartphone. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Microsoft apparently intends to distribute applications and other content for its forthcoming ... |
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Microsoft Prepping Windows 8 App StorePC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - Aug 18, 2011Microsoft provided further proof this week that the next iteration of its Windows operating system will include an app store. In a post on the new Windows 8 blog, Microsoft's president of Windows, Steven Sinofsky, listed about three ... |
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Microsoft reveals that Windows 8 will have an App StoreInquirer - Lawrence Latif - Aug 18, 2011Microsoft has said that it will start to communicate a lot more about its upcoming Windows 8 operating system and the first thing the firm decided to do was a roll call of the divisions that are working on churning out its next big ... |
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Windows 8: More App Store Evidence SurfacesPCWorld - Ian Paul - Aug 18, 2011Microsoft has a team of engineers hard at work on an app store for Windows 8, the next iteration of the company's operating system due out in 2012. The revelation comes via a recent blog post by Steven Sinofsy, ... |
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Windows 8 - Reading between the linesZDNet (blog) - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - Aug 18, 2011Summary: A listing of the different teams working on Windows 8 gives us clues as to what we might see in the final OS. Microsoft's president of the Windows Division, Steven Sinofsky has started ... |
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Microsoft lists 'App Store' as a Windows 8 featureCNET - Steven Musil - Aug 17, 2011An app store is officially among the features Microsoft is working to include in Windows 8, much like Apple's App Store for OS X. The revelation, which confirmed months of rumors, came today from Microsoft President Steven Sinofsky in a Building ... |
Windows 8 Will Have An App Store And A "Human Interaction Platform" (MSFT)San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - Aug 17, 2011This is the first official confirmation that Windows 8 will in fact have an app store like recent versions of Mac OSX. Screenshots of an app store leaked in April, but now we know for sure. This isn't a new concept for Microsoft -- Windows Vista had an ... |
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Microsoft Windows boss shares more hints on Windows 8 featuresZDNet (blog) - Mary Jo Foley - Aug 17, 2011Summary: Microsoft has 35 different feature teams building Windows 8. The list provides some new official confirmation and additional clues on what to expect with the next Windows release. ... |
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Microsoft To Reveal Windows 8 DetailsInformationWeek - Paul McDougall - Aug 17, 2011Upcoming BUILD conference and new blog will give developers and users first insights into what Redmond calls a "reimagined" operating system. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Microsoft plans to disclose new details about the architecture and ... |
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Microsoft publicly crowdsources ideas for Windows 8GMANews.TV - Aug 17, 2011As it works on what it envisions to be the biggest overhaul of its flagship operating system in the last 16 years, Microsoft is opening up to inputs from developers and even everyday users. Microsoft set up a blog that its Windows division president ... |
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Windows 8 as revolutionary as Win 95: MicrosoftTimes of India - Aug 17, 2011NEW DELHI: What Microsoft Windows 95 did to PC industry 16 years ago, the upcoming Windows 8 is set to do the same! At least that's what the world's biggest software maker, Microsoft, is hoping. In its Windows 8 development blog called "Building ... |
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Microsoft's 'Building Windows 8' Blog, Gives Users A Peek At What's ComingHuffington Post - Aug 16, 2011Anyone anticipating the release of Windows 8 might want to check out Microsoft's new blog, Building Windows 8, which will chronicle the development of the forthcoming operating system. "We intend to post regularly throughout the development of Windows ... |
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Windows 8 beta to emerge over the coming monthsSeattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - Aug 16, 2011Microsoft will be letting developers and testers try out pre-release versions of Windows 8 “over the coming months,” the company's Windows boss wrote in a blog post Monday. Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live division, ... |
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Windows 8 tablet info soon: B8 blog B4 BUILDComputerworld (blog) - Richi Jennings - Aug 16, 2011Where's all the information about Windows 8 and tablets? Here it comes, as Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) lifts the veil of secrecy. In ITĂ‚ Blogwatch, bloggers pore over the Building Windows 8 blog ("B8"). ... |
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New Microsoft Blog Hints at Windows 8 PreviewFox News - Aug 16, 2011Microsoft will soon take the wraps off the biggest update to its operating system in 16 years. The Windows software giant unveiled a new blog and Twitter feed for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system Monday -- a first tantalizing look at the ... |
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Microsoft blog paves way to Windows 8ZDNet UK (blog) - Ben Woods - Aug 16, 2011Blogging on the inner workings of business tech including, but not limited to, business intelligence (BI), analytics, enterprise software, desktop and portable hardware, IT in education, open-source p… ... |
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Microsoft claims Windows 8 is the biggest overhaul since Windows 95Inquirer - Lawrence Latif - Aug 16, 2011PERENNIAL SOFTWARE REDEVELOPER Microsoft has started to talk about the pre-release of its Windows 8 operating system. Although Microsoft has shown off bits of Windows 8 at CES and at its BUILD conference, it now wants to promote its ... |
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Microsoft starts Windows 8 blog with a dose of humilityWashington Post (blog) - Hayley Tsukayama - Aug 16, 2011Microsoft said that it's learned lessons from its past mistakes about promising features that don't deliver. (Jonathan Alcorn - BLOOMBERG) Microsoft has started a blog, Building Windows 8, to document the early design and building ... |
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Microsoft Opens Up About Windows 8PCWorld - Ian Paul - Aug 16, 2011If you're dying for more Windows 8 news then you'll want to bookmark Microsoft's brand new blog, Building Windows 8 where the software giant plans to start dishing on the next iteration of its OS. ... |
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Microsoft begins cagey Windows 8 disclosuresRegister - Gavin Clarke - Aug 16, 2011Microsoft has promised to start sharing technical information about Windows 8 â€" just don't get too excited or expect too much. Windows and Windows Live president Steven Sinofsky has launched the Building ... |
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Microsoft off Kaspersky top ten list of vulnerable softwareGMANews.TV - Aug 16, 2011A computer security firm over the weekend said that Microsoft was no longer in the list of top 10 vulnerability-riddled software products. "Microsoft products have disappeared from this ranking due to improvements in the automatic Windows update ... |
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Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declarationZDNet (blog) - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - Aug 15, 2011Summary: Who is Microsoft fooling? Other than on the desktop, Linux is eating its lunch, and it's only going to get worse for Microsoft. My compadre Ed Bott does a fine job of digging under the ... |
Microsoft launches Windows 8 blogThe Seattle Times - Janet I. Tu - Aug 15, 2011Windows chief Steven Sinofsky launched a Building Windows 8 blog today, focusing on the engineering of Window's next operating system. The blog is designed to "begin an open dialog with those of you who will be trying out the pre-release version over ... |
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Microsoft Is FINALLY Ready To Talk About Windows 8 (MSFT)San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - Aug 15, 2011Microsoft's Windows chief, Steve Sinofsky, is known for his "cone of silence" around upcoming products -- even the Windows team used to have trouble getting information about Office when he led that group. But it looks like he's finally ready to spill ... |
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Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Blog, Pledges to Release Tech DetailsPC Magazine - Mark Hachman - Aug 15, 2011Microsoft announced an open dialog between itself and the community for Windows 8, focusing on the engineering of the upcoming operating system. Microsoft's "Building Windows 8" blog didn't reveal any new details of the operating system ... |
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Sinofsky starts Windows 8 blog, says beta coming soonThe Seattle Times (blog) - Brier Dudley - Aug 15, 2011Microsoft is rolling out the digital red carpet for the full Windows 8 unveiling next month the company's developer conference. Windows boss Steven Sinofsky today posted the first item in the "Building Windows 8" blog, where his team will "begin an ... |
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If you liked the Windows 7 engineering blog, you'll love the Windows 8 oneZDNet (blog) - Mary Jo Foley - Aug 15, 2011Summary: Microsoft kicked off a new Windows 8 engineering blog about a month before the company is expected to release a first widespread test build of the next version of Windows. ... |
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