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.
Microsoft is set to publically unveil the all new Windows 8 app store tomorrow in San Francisco. While the app store was briefly shown at the BUILD developer conference back in September, very little was actually revealed about the new digital distribution platform.
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.
Many people consider the arrival of a new Windows operating system (OS) as time for a new computer. Others of us brave the process of installing it ourselves. Well, apparently Microsoft is trying to make that step easier. Since some predict that Windows 8 will appear next year, its nice to know it will be less of a nightmare to upgrade.
Microsoft canceled the Courier tablet, its rival to the iPad, in order not to compromise its core products. And that’s the problem with Microsoft in a nutshell.
While much has been made of Windows 8′s Metro-style tiles interface, there is another aspect to the new OS that has not been mentioned. Windows 8 and Windows Server 8 will be “optimized for new hardware form factors and cloud services.”
Windows 8 has been unveiled in all its glory. With its new operating system, Microsoft is drawing a line in the sand and looking only to the future.
Windows 8, making its first extensive public appearance at BUILD, will be for consumers rather than businesses. So enterprise customers can continue on with their Windows 7 upgrade plans.
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.
Oh dear. The normally level-headed MG Siegler has completely missed the point in his latest quest to make Microsoft look stupid compared to Apple. The big, smelly fanboy.
The market share for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has continued to trend downwards this year. According to a report, it doesn’t appear that the trend will change in the foreseeable future.
It’s been almost two years since the release of Windows 7 by Microsoft and the company is already gearing up for the next version of the operating system. However, third party developers are concerned with what Microsoft has revealed so far.
Xbox Live looks set to become an important part of Microsoft’s business across the board, being upgraded from its current position as an Xbox 360-only platform and extended to other products, including the forthcoming Windows 8.
Did anyone see such a radically different Windows 8 coming? I admit I didn’t. Let’s just hope it’s not a little too radical for its own good.
Windows 8 could prove to be the key to Microsoft future fortunes, because it could be the only chance the company has of competing in the touch and tablet sector.
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