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Will Windows 8 rejuvenate Microsoft's image as a software and technology leader?

Wall Street Journal - 16 Sep, 2011
Microsoft said Windows 8has the most dramatically changed look and feel since the company introduced Windows 95, a pivotal version of its operating system that came out 16 years ago. While Apple has found great success with the iPad by creating ...

Windows 8: Microsoft's Swiss Army knife vision

ZDNet Asia - Jay Greene - 16 Sep, 2011
With Windows 8, the software giant is presenting a counter-argument to Apple's Mac and iPad strategy, suggesting that customers will want one operating system to handle all their computing ...

Windows 8: How Microsoft's PC Overhaul Will Take on Apple's iPad

PCWorld - Jared Newman - 16 Sep, 2011
Windows 8's tablet support was the star of this week's BUILD conference. The new PC OS now stakes its place in the tablet wars. By Jared Newman, PCWorld For Microsoft, the timing of Windows 8 looks to be just right. Here's why. ...

Microsoft unveils new version of Windows

Sky News Australia - 16 Sep, 2011
Video for this article is not available as your browser either does not support JavaScript and/or Flash Player 9+ or they are currently disabled in your browser settings. Microsoft has launched an attempt to muscle in on the tablet computer market with ...

Slick-looking, less bloated operating system

Irish Times - 16 Sep, 2011
MICROSOFT HAS promised a completely new experience with Windows 8, with the operating system “reimagined” from the chipset up. The company was keen for conference attendees to get hands-on experience with the operating system, handing out Samsung ...

Touch and go for leaner, meaner Windows 8

Irish Times - Ciara O'Brien - 16 Sep, 2011
THERE WAS a sense of anticipation in Anaheim this week, a level of excitement that's usually limited to the under-12s heading to nearby Disneyland. But this week, things were different. Instead of Mickey Mouse ears, T-shirts with slogans such as “I see ...

The Build conference: What It's all about

Irish Times - 16 Sep, 2011
“Use what you know. Do what you've always imagined”, a large banner outside the convention centre in Anaheim urges attendees. A new event for Microsoft, the Build conference is aimed at software developers and aims to show how the future of Windows ...

Ballmer sees Windows as key to growth plan

USA Today - Michael Liedtke - 16 Sep, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer assured analysts on Wednesday that Windows remains the software maker's financial foundation, even though slowing personal computer sales are raising worries about the operating system's ability to ...

Windows 8 Looks Pretty, But It's Way Too Early To Declare Victory (MSFT)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 16 Sep, 2011
The tablet interface of Windows 8 that Microsoft demonstrated this week looks great, and developers and reviewers are pretty excited about the test version that the company is giving away. But there are still way too many unanswered questions to know ...

Microsoft's new feel for touch

Financial Times - Richard Waters - 16 Sep, 2011
Here is some unexpected news from the frontline of the tablet computing revolution: the screens full of “apps” that have achieved an almost iconic status thanks to the success of the iPad, may not be the be-all and end-all of ...

Windows 8 debuts at Microsoft Build (live blog)

CNET - Jay Greene - 16 Sep, 2011
Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live division, gives a preview of Windows 8. Editor's note: We used Cover It Live for this event, so if you missed the live blog, you can still replay it in the embedded component at the end ...

Upgrading to Windows 8 Developer Preview On a Windows 7 Laptop

PC Magazine - Michael Muchmore - 16 Sep, 2011
We've seen Windows 8 in action on a device built specifically for it, but how does the new OS fare on an older, standard PC? By Michael Muchmore We've seen Windows 8 in action on a device built specifically for it, but how does the new OS fare on an ...

Windows 8: Side-by-side app viewing is a game changer

ZDNet (blog) - James Kendrick - 16 Sep, 2011
Summary: Tablets are designed to handle single tasks at a time, but the ability to sometimes run two apps side-by-side as demonstrated with Windows 8 is revolutionary. If you have ventured out on the ...

Windows 8: Microsoft's Swiss Army knife vision

CNET - Jay Greene - 16 Sep, 2011
ANAHEIM, Calif.--Microsoft, in revealing details of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system this week at its Build developer conference here, has presented its vision for computing in a tablet era that's starkly different from the one offered by rival ...

Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM support for x86 apps

Register - 16 Sep, 2011
Despite prior hints " and a Redmond developer conference that was all about app compatibility " Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky has said that software for x86 Windows 8 systems will not run on ARM architecture. For months, Redmond has promised that any ...

Competitive Advantage: Microsoft's Post-Wintel Strategy

Wired News (blog) - Tim Carmody - 16 Sep, 2011
This is why focusing on tablets alone, and specifically putting a future Windows 8 tablet head-to-head against a right-now Apple iPad, is just a mistake. But of course, that's what most tech writers are doing. Paul Thurrott, who runs the ...

Are you ready for ads on your computer?

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 16 Sep, 2011
By now we're all used to advertisements on our smart phones and tablets " it's the tradeoff we accept for using free apps instead of premium versions. Yet one of the side effects of Microsoft's making Windows 8 for both tablets and personal computers ...

Windows 8 on ARM Processors: Three Working Tablet Demos

PCWorld - Melissa J. Perenson - 16 Sep, 2011
Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments all showed working tablet prototypes at the BUILD Windows 8 conference. When do consumers get to vote? By Melissa J. Perenson, PCWorld This week has seen lots of talk about Microsoft Windows 8 coming to hardware ...

Microsoft Follows Apple, Bans Flash From Windows 8 Tablet Software (MSFT, ADBE ...

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 16 Sep, 2011
The Web browser in the tablet interface of Windows 8 won't support plug-ins, according to a post yesterday by IE leader Dean Hachamovich. The reasons are the same reasons Apple has refused to support Flash on the Web browsers on the iPad and iPhone. ...

How to Download and Install Windows 8 on a New Partition

PCWorld - David Murphy - 16 Sep, 2011
Here's how to download and install the Windows 8 Developer Preview build onto a new partition in your hard drive. By David Murphy, PCWorld So you want to try out Windows 8. Excellent! But you're not foolhardy enough to try using a developer preview ...

How to Download and Install Windows 8 Into a Virtual Machine

PCWorld - David Murphy - 16 Sep, 2011
Here's how to download and install the Windows 8 Developer Preview into a virtual machine on your PC. By David Murphy, PCWorld We've shown you how to go about installing the new Windows 8 developer preview on a brand-new hard drive or a partition of ...

Samsung's Windows 8 Tablet Is Large (and That's Good)

TIME - Harry McCracken - 16 Sep, 2011
Almost a year ago, in one of my first Techland posts, I said I liked the idea of tablets that were bigger than an iPad, which has a 9.7" display. Maybe much bigger--like 17". At Microsoft's BUILD conference this ...

Windows 8 Tablets Won't Run PC Apps, After All

InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - 16 Sep, 2011
Apps written for x86 Windows PCs won't be able to run on ARM-based Win 8 tablets, according to a Microsoft exec who says his earlier statements about cross-platform compatibility were misinterpreted. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek In a clarification ...

Windows 8 Makes Microsoft A Tablet Contender Against Android, Apple

Forbes - 16 Sep, 2011
Microsoft showcased its Windows 8 on tablets at the BUILD conference this week. We wrote previously about how Windows 8 will be the single most important factor to the company's revenues next year. Microsoft confirmed these thoughts as it has ...

Windows 8 first impressions

CBS News - Chenda Ngak - 16 Sep, 2011
(CBS) - As Microsoft's BUILD conference winds down, developers and tech journalists are starting to voice their opinions of Windows 8. Keep in mind, Microsoft's new operating system is still in the midst of development and most likely won't launch ...

Microsoft and Intel

The Economist - 16 Sep, 2011
TOGETHER Microsoft, the maker of the Windows operating system, and Intel, the world's biggest maker of semiconductors, used to rule the world of personal computing. Now that new computers are as likely to sit in people's hands as on their desks or laps ...

Microsoft: Maybe More Ultrabooks Than Tablets, Says Nomura

Barron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - 16 Sep, 2011
I had a chance to speak this morning with Nomura Equity Research's Rick Sherlund, who was the “axe” on Microsoft for years at Goldman Sachs. Sherlund spent the last couple days at Microsoft's “BUILD” conference in Anaheim, California, ...

8 Things You Need To Know About Windows 8

PC Magazine - Jeffrey L. Wilson, Michael Muchmore - 16 Sep, 2011
Microsoft's upcoming operating has many new features, but here are eight of the most intriguing. By Jeffrey L. Wilson, Michael Muchmore The BUILD convention (held this week in Anaheim, California) is Windows 8's coming out party. ...

What Developers Are Saying About Windows 8

PC Magazine - Sara Yin - 16 Sep, 2011
On Tuesday, Microsoft gave developers and journalists a chance to tinker with a developer preview of Windows 8, the latest overhaul of the OS that merges tablet, desktop, and mobile application development. Do you like the touch-centric ...

Microsoft Will Keep Windows at Center of Strategy, CEO Says

BusinessWeek - 16 Sep, 2011
Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. will keep its Windows operating system at the heart of its strategy as the company revamps the software to work with new types of computing devices, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said. ...

 

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