Nvidia is now looking to get its processors into Windows-powered phones and is taking on Qualcomm with “Grey,” a combined baseband/processor chipset, in 2013, according to a number of slides Nvidia chief executive officer Jen-Hsun Huang presented at the Citi Technology Conference last week. According to the roadmap, Nvidia’s Tegra processor will be making its way into Windows Phone by 2013. The Grey processor, which will combine Icera with Tegra, will be the first chipset that will combine graphics, mobile communications...
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Using multiple PCs in a single space at a time has always been very painful. The keyboards and mice do not only take up a significant amount of space, but moving from one keyboard to another can be very messy. Now, Microsoft has unveiled Mouse without Borders, a Microsoft Garage program that eliminates the parameters set by PCs, allowing the mouse to navigate from one computer to another. Up to four PCs can sync into a unit via this program, creating an environment where users can navigate, move, share and type files easily. The Garage...
Samsung is now building a tablet that runs on Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 8, according to a report. Korea Economic Daily said that Samsung is currently working on a quad-core tablet that runs Windows 8, making it the first tablet PC that runs the newest Windows version. The publication cites an unnamed source for its information, and added that the tablet will be appearing at Microsoft’s BUILD developer conference in Anaheim, California on September 13. Microsoft also plans on showcasing some of Windows 8’s...
Today’s Building Windows 8 blog post is not really about new Windows 8 tweaks and features. It is about how the new tiled Metro tablet user interface will interact with the standard Windows Desktop we are used to. Microsoft also discussed about where the company is taking the new operating system in terms of user interface and how the Metro idea came about. Microsoft started planning Windows 8 in 2009, before Windows 7 was even released, aiming to reimagine Windows, from the most basic elements to the operating system’s architecture. Windows...
The most recent Building Windows 8 blog post describes how the new operating system can mount and work with files stored in VHD and ISO files natively. For those people who are unfamiliar with these files, ISO files are saved images of DVDs or CDs that can be stored on a computer’s hard disk drive so that it can be burned to a disk. Most install disks, including Linux and Windows, come in the ISO format. In Windows 7, users can burn ISO files natively, but they still have to install a third-party program to mount them to a disk drive....
The team behind the development of Windows 8 is continuously informing people about the new operating system’s features on the Building Windows 8 blog, and now, they have posted about the reworked copy, rename, move and delete features of the upcoming Windows version. According to the development team, the file Management features represent about 50 percent of the Windows Explorer and the total command usage in the current version of the operating system, Windows 7. It is not optimized for high-volume work of multiple copy jobs....
Microsoft Corp. has opened a new blog and Twitter account to keep its partners and customers updated with the progress and development of its next-generation operating system, Windows 8. Windows President Steven Sinofsky made the blog’s first post titled “Building Windows 8,” sharing new information about the OS and describing the site’s purpose to developers, end-users and information professionals. Sinofsky mentioned that a pre-release version of Windows 8 will be available “over the coming months,”...
Last week, internet search giant Google wrote a blog post calling out Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and other companies for using “bogus patents” to try and fight its Android mobile operating system. Some of these patents include those which were acquired from Novell. Microsoft was then quick to respond to these accusations, saying that they tried to get the company to partner with them to purchase the Novell patents. Google is now saying that there was an obvious reason for turning the offer down, which Microsoft left out. “It’s...
Microsoft has recently offered more than $250,000 to researchers who can develop new security defenses to protect users of its Windows operating system against hack attacks that can exploit software bugs. Last Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference, Microsoft announced that they will pay $200,000 for the best “novel runtime mitigation technology designed to prevent the exploitation of memory safety vulnerabilities.” The second placer will receive $50,000 and the third placer will receive an MSDN Universal subscription,...
Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates thinks that the modern toilet is not good enough because people from developing countries can’t afford to buy it, which leads to poor sanitation and disease. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has challenged universities to design and build a better toilet that generates energy, more hygienic, and don’t require a septic system or running water. The foundation has a budget of $41.5 million toward that end, and a number of proposals have been seen, including toilets powered by microwaves,...