Chinese manufacturer, Foxconn is in the news again with workers protesting poor working conditions at the factory. The manufacturing company came under scrutiny in the past after a number of suicides occurred in plants contracted by Apple, HP and Dell.
While Ballmer’s CES keynote was as lacking in excitement as expected, there was one interesting announcement from Microsoft for PC owners. Kinect for PC aka Kinect for Windows will be coming out February 1st of this year. While that may seem to be a boon for PC owners the world over, there is one little catch. Kinect for PC will require new hardware and not just software.
Nokia has opted out of any significant holiday phone sales. Most of the Windows Phone 7 handsets on the market are at least a few months old and low to middle of the market. Unlike Samsung with its high end Galaxy Nexus Android phone or Motorola with its Droid Razr, there aren’t any really dazzling high end Windows Phone 7 handsets hitting the market anytime soon. The closest is the Samsung Focus S that recently hit AT&T. The other high end handset, the Nokia 800 isn’t expected in the United States anytime soon.
Microsoft may have left it too late to get into the tablet market. Unless it can pull something amazing out the hat in the form of Windows 8.
For a company that has it’s operating system on over 80 percent of the computers in the world, you have to wonder why their phone selection is so pitiful. Really, try to find a Windows Phone 7 device made by more than two companies and you are out of luck in the US. If you try to buy one at Verizon the countries largest carrier, you have one choice.
Researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon have developed a wearable technology that will turn just about any surface into a touch screen. That means that you can use any body part, home surface, car surface or consenting friend as a touch screen. Not bad. Except for looking dorky, it’s a great idea. Anything or anyone can become the equivalent of an iPad.
The demise of the Zune has been rumored for months. It has been discussed on Microsoft Answers and on prominent electronics news websites since March of this year. A notice was published on the Zune support website yesterday that seems to be gone today. It looks as if Microsoft found a way to get Zune in the news at the same time that the Apple 4S was released.
Microsoft is set to unveil the first Windows 8 tablet at next week’s BUILD conference. And it’s a tablet being built by Samsung.
A post-PC era? Pish. It’s a PC-plus era, of course. But then Microsoft would say that.
Most garages are used to store junk and occasionally a car or two. Some may have workshops and a few have led to great inventions. Bill Gates started Microsoft in a garage. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple in a garage. Now a Microsoft project manager has built a nuclear reactor in a garage with the help of high school students as a way to get them excited about science.
Who would have thought that Microsoft was dabbling in fashion technology? No one. But here’s the thing, two of Microsoft’s researchers won Best Concept and Best in Show this past June at the 15th annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) in San Francisco.
Whether you believe Microsoft retail stores are genius or folly they’re not going anywhere. In fact, one is probably opening near you soon.
At the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), Microsoft renewed it’s claim that the Windows Phone operating system (OS) would be the number two cellphone operating system by 2015. Along with that claim Microsoft outlined some of the benefits available to Windows partners.
Apple may have moved on from the PC Vs. Mac adverts but Microsoft is still running with the concept of being proud and loud about being a PC.
Hewlett Packard (HP) has decided to include WebOS on all of its computers beginning in 2012. Although the company is expected to include Windows on those same computers, it is unclear exactly how the company intends to do it. Will the company include WebOS as a Windows overlay or as part of a duel boot system is not known.
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