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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For those of you who want to transfer files between two computers, regardless if you are running on Mac or Windows platform, a new device has been created for you. The iTwin is a USB device that allows you to securely access, edit and share all your files from anywhere around the world. The iTwin can now support Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Lion. This upgrade to the award-winning...
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