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Microsoft took some criticism for pushing gaming to the back burner with its Xbox One announcement, but isn’t game quality a given? Microsoft may not have wowed hardcore gamers with its initial Xbox One announcement, but I’m not sure it wanted to. All of the exclusive game titles and advanced graphics capabilities of the Xbox…
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As PC prospects decline, the tech giant moves toward a hybrid, cross-platform future with opportunities in the server closet and the cloud Microsoft has been in business, in one form or another, for 37 years. In the tech world, that’s an eternity. Which isn’t to say Microsoft has remained static over that time. Regulatory pressures,…
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Business users will find actual IT-oriented features, rather than the consumer OS adorned with extras. Microsoft recently introduced a trio of consumer Windows 8 SKUs, two for desktop and the ARM version. Lost in the hoopla was Windows 8 Enterprise edition, which wasn’t outlined in great detail. Well, Microsoft has started to provide information on…
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Windows 8 won’t hit critical mass in enterprises, Forrester says The new OS isn’t expected to ever reach 50 percent adoption in workplace PCs, according to the IT research firmWindows 8, the most significant upgrade to Microsoft’s operating system since Windows 95 and one of the most important products in the company’s history, will not…
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Microsoft virtualization technology still has uphill battle vs. VMware, but third-party support making Hyper-V more alluring to customers About three years ago Embotics jumped into developing support in its private cloud management platform for Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, hopeful that the VMware virtualization challenger would take off. When that takeoff initially stalled, Embotics curtailed its Hyper-V…
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Excel power user flags down this passing pilot fish to help with her PC, where she has a spreadsheet open. “She was trying to copy out information from this spreadsheet someone had sent to her,” says fish. “When she pressed Ctrl+C, the spreadsheet flickered a few times, and all the data vanished. “I replicated it…
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If you’ve heard about Cloud based onDemand Gaming service OnLive, you might already understand what Future of Cloud based apps and games would look like. OnLive is a step forward in earadicating requirement of high-end PC hardware for Gaming. All the complex graphics, computation and memory intensive processes from 3D Gaming can be offloaded to…
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Analysts believe Microsoft won’t dare charge for this year’s update to Windows 8, but one is certain it will for future annual releases Sometime in the coming weeks, Microsoft will tell Windows 8 users whether they will have to pay for the upgrade code-named “Blue,” and if so, how much. While Microsoft remains tight-lipped on…
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The Android app has been available for about a month Facebook has attracted “just about” 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability. The app, which takes the place of the home screen on supported devices, puts Facebook much more at the center of the phone. Rather than an app…
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The update to Windows 8 will be delivered across a variety of form factors and display sizes Microsoft’s update of its Windows 8 operating system, code-named Windows Blue, will be available later this year, supporting a variety of form factors and display sizes, and providing more options for both businesses and consumers. “The Windows Blue…