Love for Windows XP still coming in spurts
Windows 7’s market share appears to have peaked, according to two sources we use to assess what’s running on the world’s desktop computers.…
Microsoft tells big biz: No free Windows 10 for you, crack wallets open
Hey, insert credit card, check out our new update system, says Redmond
Microsoft has confirmed that, unlike your average Alice and Bob, enterprises won’t get a free upgrade to Windows 10 when the new operating system is finally released.…
Google Now now SLURPS data from 40 third party apps so YOU don’t have to
Search tool consensually ransacks Airbnb, Lyft, et al
Google has inked deals with 40 third party app makers, allowing the ad giant to rifle through data from the likes of Airbnb and Lyft to serve up “relevant information” to its Android users.…
Microsoft’s Ignite gabfest includes just ONE session about Windows Server
Devices and clouds in the spotlight, Servers nowhere to be seen for now
Microsoft has just released the session catalog for its May Ignite event, the new gabfest that mashes TechEd and several other product-specific enterprise software conferences into one. And at this stage it looks like Windows Server will hardly make the agenda.…
Windows 10 heralds the MINECRAFT-isation of Microsoft
Redmond is building a stack of visualisation tools for the generation that grew up with clickable everything
Until last week, Microsoft’s $2.5 billion purchase of Mojang AB made no sense to me. Undeniably popular in the current generation of kids, at some point, Mojang’s Minecraft will fade, like every other fad before it. Mojang doesn’t even have a follow-up to its breakthrough first title. Back in 2013, Minecraft creator Marcus ‘Notch’ Perrson shelved 0x10C, a space game set in the distant future, leaving Mojang looking like a one hit-wonder.…
ZX81 BEATEN at last as dev claims smallest Chess code crown
Boot Chess needs just 512 bytes of memory, beating 1982’s 1K ZX Chess
Developer Olivier Poudade claims he’s beaten a 33 year-old record for the smallest working Chess program.…
BITE that APPLE if you want to escape the Android garden, Microsoft
Pick a winner in Apple-Samsung sales see-saw
Analysis Microsoft has made Office on Android available on tablets at the exact moment its fortunes with Apple and Samsung are in flux. If Redmond’s going to win, it needs to bet on Apple.…
Microsoft Outlook comes to iOS, Android: MS email now a bit less painful on mobile
… Unless you’re on Windows Phone
Microsoft has released new Outlook apps for iOS and Android.…
Ugly, incomplete, buggy: Windows 10 faces a sprint to the finish
Unpicking the past is a messy business for Microsoft
Review Microsoft does not have long to fix Windows 10. The company plans to release it this year, and if that implies hardware on the shelves, the operating system will need to be completed in the summer – and most features will need to be near-finalised well before that. Can Microsoft gets its new Windows ready in time?…
Microsoft ‘showers gold’ on anti-Google Cyanogen and its Android alternative
Redmond part of $70m funding round, say sources
Microsoft will invest in alternative Android firmware startup Cyanogen, a report claims.…