Will Windows 8 Revolutionize Mobile Computing?

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Windows 8 wows experts

Boston Herald - Brendan Lynch - 18 Sep, 2011
Microsoft released an early version of its Windows 8 operating system to developers last week, and so far the hybrid desktop-tablet software is impressing experts. The OS, scheduled to be released next fall, is winning praise for its ...

Story of the Week: Survival of the Tablet

Financial Times (blog) - Maryam Nabi - 18 Sep, 2011
Things are heating up again in the world of tablets. While talk of a tablet war is buzzing, with the latest player soon to be Microsoft, existing tablet makers are struggling to catch up with the iPad. This week, Microsoft showcased its Windows 8 ...

Windows 8 Developer Preview Video Tour

ZDNet (blog) - Jason Perlow - 18 Sep, 2011
Summary: ZDNet Senior Technology Editor Jason Perlow walks through the new Metro UI and legacy compatibility features in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. This weekend, like over a million other geeks ...

Windows 8 on Intel will be tough to beat

CNET - Brooke Crothers - 18 Sep, 2011
Intel will be as strong as ever despite the emergence of an alternative platform for Windows 8. That's my forecast after bouncing between Northern and Southern California this week and attending two major tech conferences--the Intel Developer Forum in ...

Bill Crean, Texas Instruments OMAP product manager for mobile devices, talks ...

YouTube - 18 Sep, 2011
Bill Crean of Texas Instruments discusses the significance of Windows 8 at the Microsoft BUILD Conference. TI displayed a Windows 8 tablet at BUILD. (September 15, 2011)

The World Finally Touches Windows 8

PC Magazine - Peter Pachal - 18 Sep, 2011
No more glimpses, no more demos. At last people all over the world got a chance to actually use Windows 8 this week. Twitter reveals its first impressions. By Peter Pachal Microsoft followed through on its plan to completely revamp Windows this week, ...

Tablet rivalry looms with Win 8 (Apple Talk Weekly)

CNET - Josh Lowensohn - ‎Sep 17, 2011‎
Once again I'm going to kick off this week's edition of Apple Talk Weekly by talking about a company other than Apple, and that company is Microsoft. The tech giant offered developers their first taste of Windows 8 at its Build conference in Anaheim, ...

Microsoft's Windows 8 Makes Strong First Impression

ABC News - Edward C. Baig - ‎Sep 17, 2011‎
You won't typically read about a product in this column many months ahead of its presumed launch. But when that product, however early, is the next version of Windows â€" and so radically different from the familiar operating ...

Top tech headlines: Roundup of tech buzz

Hindustan Times - ‎Sep 17, 2011‎
Microsoft unveiled a preview of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system at its BUILD developers conference. The concept behind Windows 8 is that it is a touch-first user interface built around Microsoft's iconic Metro style. ...

Windows 8: The "Ocho" for Tablets, Phones

Barron's - Mark Veverka - ‎Sep 17, 2011‎
The next iteration of Microsoft's iconic operating system will be optimized for smartphones and tablets. Too bad it may not be launched until next fall. Impatient shareholders hoping for sweeping changes at ...

Microsoft Office may go 'metro'

GMANews.TV - ‎Sep 17, 2011‎
After presenting touch-based features of its upcoming flagship operating system Windows 8, Microsoft is dropping hints its Office productivity suite may take the same route. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hinted the company will craft a Metro-style ...

Windows 8 has a split personality

msnbc.com - Mark Spoonauer - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
Facebook, iPhone, Twitter and Wii. Technology evolves at the speed of light. Msnbc.com's tech reporters and editors look at the gadgets, games and innovations changing our world. By Mark Spoonauer It hit me while performing a three-finger salute on ...

The First Windows 8 Apps, Coded by College Kids

PC Magazine - Michael Muchmore - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
Where does a multibillion dollar software company get developers to create the first apps for its revolutionary new flagship software? Why, by recruiting college interns on their summer breaks, of course! ...

How You'll Communicate With Windows 8 (MSFT)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
Messenger, which lets users send short text messages that reach the other person no matter where they are -- if they're in Windows Live Messenger, they'll see it there. If they're in Facebook, it'll go there. If they're on their phone, it'll show up as ...

Microsoft delivers new Internet Explorer 10 test build for Windows 8

ZDNet (blog) - Mary Jo Foley - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
Summary: Microsoft released a new developer preview of IE 10 this week for Windows 8 testers only. The new platform preview can work as a plug-in-free “Metro-style” app, or a Desktop app that still ...

Microsoft opens curtains on Windows 8 (week in review)

CNET - Michelle Meyers - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
At its Build developers' conference this week, Microsoft shed some light on its upcoming Windows 8 operating system--the first to work on tablets with touch from the start, and by all accounts a dramatic shift from its current Windows version. ...

Microsoft Exec: Time For Windows XP To Go

InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
Demise of corporate America's staple operating system could leave some enterprises scrambling for a replacement as deadline approaches. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Microsoft spent most of this week talking up its new tablet-friendly Windows 8 ...

Windows 8 on ARM Won't Run Legacy Windows Apps

PC Magazine - Mark Hachman - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
Microsoft executives said this week that Windows 8 tablets using an ARM chip will not be able to run legacy Windows 7 applications, with the possible exception of Office. This week, Microsoft held an analyst meeting in conjunction with ...

Windows 8 opens door to new chipmakers

CNN - David Goldman - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
ANAHEIM, Calif. (CNNMoney) -- The biggest change that Microsoft unveiled in Windows 8 wasn't the radically different user interface or the fact that it will be coming to tablets. ...

Future of Adobe Flash Looking Dimmer as Microsoft Shuns Support

Financial News Network Online - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
According to Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Internet Explorer team leader Dean Hachamovitch, the company's new Windows 8 Metro user interface will not support Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) Flash or other plug-ins, and will instead embrace the HTML5 set of web ...

Windows 8 opens fresh thinking on touchscreens

Financial Times - Richard Waters - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
Usually, when companies claim to have “reimagined” a venerable but ageing product in an attempt to give it a new lease of life, the actual facelift does not justify the hyperbole. But the revamped version of the ...

Microsoft CEO hints at 'Metro-ization' of Office

Computerworld - Gregg Keizer - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
Computerworld - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday strongly hinted that the company will craft a Metro-style version of the next Office suite. "You ought to expect that we are rethinking and working hard on what it would mean to ...

Windows 8 Presents a Cure for Bloatware Installed by Your Printer, Camera ...

PCWorld - Jared Newman - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
With Windows 8, the days of getting junk software with your printers, cameras, and external hard drives may be over. Microsoft wants external device makers to create Metro-style apps for Windows 8. ...

Windows 8 Beta: 8 Questions That Will Make Or Break Microsoft's New OS

Huffington Post - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
Windows 8, the recently unveiled operating system from Microsoft, is a huge gamble from the software giant. The followup OS to Windows 7 is split into two different views that exist on the same machine; the user can switched between either at will: ...

Microsoft drops support for plugins in its Windows 8 Metro browser

Inquirer - Lawrence Latif - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Microsoft has dumped support for third party web browser plugins in its Metro user interface. Microsoft is keen to streamline web browsing in its Metro user interface - the one that is being shown off on tablets ...

Mister Softee's Windows 8 Could Bite Into Apple's iPad Sales

Forbes - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
Yesterday at its BUILD developer event, Microsoft unveiled a detailed preview of the next major release of its next version called Windows 8. [1] Windows 8 seems to have a radically different look and feel, and the most attractive aspect of Windows 8 ...

Will tablet developers rush to Windows 8?

Computerworld - Matt Hamblen - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
O'Donnell noted that desktops and laptops out-sell media tablets like the iPad at a rate of about 4 to 1. He expects that ratio to be about the same in 2015, when tablets could become 30% of the mix oin the personal computer market. ...

Windows 8 Visual Tour: Microsoft's New Desktop

InformationWeek - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
Paul McDougall 09/16/2011 Microsoft this week gave developers the first in-depth look at Windows 8--the operating system that could finally make it a player in the tablet market. Take a look at key elements. Microsoft made no bones about the fact that ...

Windows 8 going rogue (kind of)

CBS News - Chenda Ngak - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
(CBS) - Building a new operating system from the ground up is a daunting task, but it seems like Microsoft is rolling the dice with Windows 8. Our friends at CNET brought up an interesting point that Windows 8 is not trying to copy OSX or iOS. ...

IE browser to drop Flash support

BBC News - ‎Sep 16, 2011‎
One of the web's most widely used technologies is going to be absent from some versions of Windows 8. Microsoft is to drop support for Adobe Flash from the web browser that works with the Metro interface on Windows 8. The Metro user interface is most ...

 

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