We already know Netflix users are begging for easier ways to get streaming video to their TVs--Xbox, PS3, Roku, and Blu-ray players apparently aren't simple enough solutions. Instead, more and more
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Google's Android may soon move beyond the limiting confines of the G1 smartphone and onto a much roomier machine: the netbook. Hewlett Packard is experimenting with the OS in an attempt to gauge how useful it might be on those tiny ...READ MORE›
InformationWeek published results from an 1100-company survey suggesting that businesses will be extremely reticent to upgrade to Windows 7. According to the report, 83% of the companies surveyed ... READ MORE›
Here's a nasty, juicy rumor to mull-over on your holiday weekend: Microsoft will be pricing Windows 7 higher than Vista, making it the costliest OS the company has ever released, on average. Mix in news of the limiting specs that ...READ MORE›
Microsoft has declared a massive victory for its latest operating system: "Windows 7 is by far the fastest selling Operating System in history," according to Craig Beilinson, the Director of Marketing for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division. READ MORE›
Why is Philip Morris Backing Antismoking Bills?
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed legislation giving the FDA authority to regulate the tobacco industry. Just 10 years ago, when Senator John McCain introduced a similar bill, ...READ MORE›
Sorry--Microsoft's not really wowing the consumer and managing an early release of Windows 7 as Apple just did for Snow Leopard. It is pushing Win7 out the door ahead of time, but it's the highly-specialized embedded-systems ...READ MORE›
Microsoft's Windows 7 OS is to Vista as: a) a lightly bruised peach is to a rotten one. b) a fresh coat of paint is to a clunker. c) a nonevent is to an epic fail. d) all of the above. -- DL
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Barack Obama got a big lift from social Web-inspired parties during his presidential campaign. So why not do the same with Windows 7 when it launches on October 22?READ MORE›
Microsoft's big CES keynote, which was hotly tipped as a reveal for the impressive Courier slate PC, was actually just a luke-warm Windows 7 promo. And that has one big result: The tech world is now waiting on Apple.
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How Sam Moreau and his eclectic team of architects, industrial designers, and writers created the "Wow!" features of Microsoft's new operating system.READ MORE›
If Apple's recent financial report had a musical theme, you might choose Tchaikovski's 1812. But Microsoft's just-revealed quarterly stats might incline toward something somber from Handel ... they're not looking cheery.
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Think about your iPhone's New York Times or Facebook app. They don't feel like an installed program--they're much less clunky--nor a website, which is anything but native. Apps are some lighter in-between. Now Microsoft is trying to bring that same concept to Windows 7.READ MORE›
There're a lot of positive vibes on the Intertubes about Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 OS. It's had great reviews, the beta-test version had to be extended, and it looks like it'll be here soon enough to make Vista's failures just ...READ MORE›
In a last-minute campaign effort, Obama's team has launched a full force Video Game Campaign extending the candidate's reach into the 18-34 market.READ MORE›
The functionality the 'softies were most excited about: touch and multi-touch integration, which seems to have inherited many of its features from Microsoft's conceptual Surface Table touch surface.READ MORE›
The functionality the 'softies were most excited about: touch and multi-touch integration, which seems to have inherited many of its features from Microsoft's conceptual Surface Table touch surface.READ MORE›
It's October 22,2009. It's Windows 7 Day! You can bet that many a PC user can barely contain their excitement about the opportunity to upgrade from XP and consign Vista to history's dustbin. Microsoft's got a suite of events and ...READ MORE›
In the hours before Microsoft's Apple challenger launched, a slew of Windows phones surfaced. Then MS revealed a total of 10 phones for 30 countries. Most look like competitors to the current iPhone, not next year's. READ MORE›
If BumpTop's new multi-touch application for Windows 7 looks oddly familiar, that's because it tries so hard to mime the offline world of paper piles and junk drawers. And rightly so.READ MORE›
Expect this week's technology press to be stuffed full of info relating to and stemming from CES 2010. but what exactly can we expect from the show this year? We've summed it up for you.
Firstly, there will be some of you out there ...READ MORE›
For Windows 7 to outshine the disaster that is Vista, it will have to be both a technical panacea and a marketing success. Microsoft has been splurging on TV ads, haplessly enlisting "regular" people to get you to throw parties in ...READ MORE›
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