Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., does not have anything good to say about the Android operating system and Google apps, as he appeared at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Ballmer attacked Google’s Android, saying that the operating system is too hard for ordinary users to handle. “You don’t need to be a computer scientist to...
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Microsoft Corp. has officially announced that its acquisition of the Internet video chat company Skype has closed. Skype is now a new business division within Microsoft. Tony Bates, the chief executive officer of Skype, now assumes the role of Skype division’s president, and will report directly to Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft. Skype will now support devices...
With the latest spate of gaming device releases perhaps what the world really needs now is the Xbox 720. Can we expect to see if soon and if so will it be a gaming revolution or just a tarted up Xbox with nothing much new in it? A lot of rumours are floating around about this machine it seems that the good people at Microsoft are already working on it; an assumption largely...
The US Patent and Trademark Office has published a new patent awarded to Microsoft that points out to an interesting future for fans of the Windows Phone 7 platform. The patent, which was files in March of last year, would enable easily swappable accessories for mobile phones that run Microsoft’s mobile operating system. Microsoft’s new patent, called “Mobile...
It appears that Apple is not the only tech company that has problems handling secrets. Reports say that a Windows Phone program manager at Microsoft has been fired after posting a tweet about a Nokia device running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system. Joe Marini, a program manager for Windows Phone at Microsoft, made a harmless tweet confirming an unnamed...
Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced their plans to roll out a new Xbox TV service this holiday season, in a meeting with analysts this past week. The TV service will be available on the Xbox 360 console and will enable users to stream select TV shows. The CEO said that the Xbox team and Microsoft are working with “dozens of video content...
Microsoft has revealed that the Windows 8 Developer Preview, a pre-beta version of the company’s newest operating system, has been downloaded 500,000 times in the first 12 hours after it was launched. The preview version of Windows 8 was posted to Microsoft’s website on Wednesday, just after the company officially unveiled its latest operating system. Microsoft...
The Blue Screen of Death has always been the only thing that we don’t want to see on our computers. It is just an error message that is filled with text that tells the users about what caused the crash in the Windows operating system. For many of us who have seen it, it makes absolutely no sense and we follow it up with a reboot. Now, with the new Windows operating...
Microsoft Corp. has unveiled the first tablet that will run the Windows 8 to developers last Tuesday. Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows, showed off the device while presenting a number of features of the company’s new operating system, Windows 8, at the 2011 BUILD conference in Anaheim, California. The company said that they will give out 5,000 units of the device...
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...