Year: 2011

Windows 8 Features Vastly Improved Boot Times

Windows 8 news continues to trickle from the Building Windows 8 blog at a steady clip: today, Gabe Aul detailed changes to the Windows 8 boot process that promise to drastically reduce startup times. Microsoft MCTS Certification, MCITP Certification and over 2000+ Exams with Life Time Access Membership at https:://www.actualkey.com The team wanted to come […]

Microsoft: Android is standing ‘on the shoulder of companies like Microsoft’

Microsoft: ‘Licensing is not some nefarious thing that people should be worried about.’ Best Microsoft MCTS Certification, Microsoft MCITP Training at certkingdom.com Google is standing ‘on the shoulder of companies like Microsoft who made all these billions of dollars in investments‘ with its Android mobile OS, claims Horacio Gutiérrez, deputy general counsel in charge of […]

Windows XP is still pretty cool

Twelfth in a series. Here’s a dirty little secret: I’m still using Windows XP. That’s right. A technology analyst — independent, mind you; not working for a firm that requires a specific load — and I’m voluntarily using XP. In fact, I’m writing this article on it. I’ve been using it so long, I almost […]

Bill Gates: I’m cool with Steve Jobs dissing me

Some relationships become competitive. And some have competitiveness at their core. The latter surely was the case between Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs. So no one could have imagined that Jobs would have offered too many conciliatory quotes in Walter Isaacson’s biography. In an interview with ABC News, Gates says he’s thoroughly and […]

Windows XP is still pretty cool

Twelfth in a series. Here’s a dirty little secret: I’m still using Windows XP. That’s right. A technology analyst — independent, mind you; not working for a firm that requires a specific load — and I’m voluntarily using XP. In fact, I’m writing this article on it. I’ve been using it so long, I almost […]

Bill Gates: Being very rich is ‘the same hamburger’

Let’s talk money and hamburgers. Sometimes you can spend a lot of money on a hamburger, sometimes very little. For example, at the Four Seasons in San Francisco, you can pay $18 for a very nice hamburger with exquisite french fries. It is spectacularly better than the ones at the Golden State Warriors games, where, […]

Office 2007 SP3, another Mango phone event and more Microsoft news of the week

Now that Nokia World is over, I’m grabbing a pint (and a planned weekend of fun in London) before heading back to the states. Here’s a quick round-up of some of the Microsoft tidbits I didn’t get to write up earlier in the week: Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 Service Pack (SP) 3 is out […]

Is Microsoft Firefox’s last, great hope?

Mozilla has faced considerable criticism for its decision to release a customized version of Firefox in which the default search engine and home page is Microsoft’s Bing. But if Mozilla is going to survive, that’s exactly what it needs to do, because with declining market share and a potential rift with Google, Microsoft may be […]

Nokia Tiptoes Back Into Smartphone Market but Steers Clear of US

The Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 are what Nokia calls its very first Windows Phone devices. The company hopes to begin selling them in Asia in Russia by the end of the year, afterwards expanding into other markets. The U.S. likely won’t see them for sale soon, or perhaps at all — Nokia’s stateside push […]

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