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Windows 8 wants developers to fall into Metro lockstep

A unified approach to applications will make things easier on users microsoft message to apps developers: Fit into the Metro style of Windows 8 to make things easier on end users, according to two developers. Microsoft is trying to change users’ expectations about applications in general by creating an environment that remains similar app to […]

MSL Product Planner Shares Perspective

A few months back, Microsoft Learning Product Planner, Eamonn Kelly shared perspective on the lab experience from course 10215A: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Server Virtualization. If you have not signed up for Virtualization training, Learning Partners are offering special offers on four popular Virtualization courses this quarter. Take a look at current offers to the […]

Android’s Biggest Fan Is Microsoft, of Course

  “Even if Microsoft were able to extract Danegeld for every Android device …, every license sold is one less WinPhone sale, one more mobile device using Google instead of Bing, one more customer lost to Android apps, one less customer for Microsoft’s mobile gaming and other services,” said Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson. “Microsoft is […]

How Windows 8 KO’d the innovative Courier tablet

Pitting product groups against one another is almost as much a part of Microsoft’s culture as complaining about the employee review system or grabbing a free soda from the employee kitchens. Win that Darwinian battle and your group can often find itself at the heart of Microsoft’s next big product push. Lose, and you can […]

The inside story of how Microsoft killed its Courier tablet

Steve Ballmer had a dilemma. He had two groups at Microsoft pursuing competing visions for tablet computers. One group, led by Xbox godfather J Allard, was pushing for a sleek, two-screen tablet called the Courier that users controlled with their finger or a pen. But it had a problem: It was running a modified version […]

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 […]

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, […]

Windows 8 Tiles Metro-Style UI on Windows 7

Windows 8 would ditch the Windows 7 Aero interface in favor of Metro UI,  which exists on Windows Phone today. If you love the MEtro style tiles and interface, you can get the Metro UI on windows 7 using Zetro UI. Zetro UI is very simple to install and configure. Extract the zip after downloading […]

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