Microsoft later today will reverse a months-long practice in how Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) handles Adobe's Flash Player on Windows 8's and Windows RT's Modern user interfaces. The change will be pushed to users along with the March ...
Aggressive sales of smaller tablets triggered a revised tablet sales forecast today by IDC, which upped its projections by 11% for 2013 and said Android would supplant Apple's iOS as the dominant operating system this year. "The shift to ...
Microsoft will issue security fixes for its Windows Store apps on the fly, not just on the familiar monthly Patch Tuesday, the company said this week. At the same time, Microsoft spelled out how it will alert customers of security ...
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Improving Windows 8 is Microsoft’s best bet for grabbing a larger share of tablet sales over the next four years, but there doesn’t seem much it can do to accelerate the projected slow growth of Windows RT over the same time ...
Microsoft‘s two-pronged push into the tablet market, consisting of the Windows RT and Windows 8 operating systems, confuses customers, an IDC analyst said on Wednesday. The company should instead focus on the more robust Windows 8 ...
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Twitter has released an app for Windows 8, with several features designed specifically for the new operating system from Microsoft. The company said the app features two Windows charms for searching and making posts on Twitter. The search ...
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Mozilla won't be building Firefox for iOS unless Apple changes its rules, a company executive said Saturday. Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's vice president of product at Mozilla, told an audience at South by Southwest Interactive (SxSW) that the ...
Microsoft will update the Internet Explorer 10 version built for its Windows 8 and Windows RT "modern" tile-based interface to run Flash content by default, reversing course on its original decision around this issue. The company has ...
Tags: IE10, Windows 8, software, Computer Products
Small tablet computers are marketplace hits, with economically-priced devices powered by Google's Android software taking share from Apple iPads, according to International Data Corporation. "One in every two tablets shipped this quarter ...
The grumbling of PC makers is getting louder with Windows 8 doing little to spark laptop sales. The latest complaints come from Jun Dong-Soo, President of Samsung‘s memory chip division, who had no kind words for Windows 8 during a ...
Samsung on Thursday confirmed reports by German media that it will stop selling its Windows RT tablet, the Ativ Tab, in Germany. The sales of the tablet will also be halted in other European countries, according to the German tech news ...
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Microsoft today announced it will deliver seven security updates next week, four of them rated "critical," to patch Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, Office, SharePoint Server and the Silverlight media software. March's Patch Tuesday ...
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Samsung will stop to sale the using the tablet computer ATIV Tab which is equipped the Windows RT system in Germany and some other European countries. Report said that Samsung’s executives have been confirmed at CeBIT in Germany ...
Touch-based Windows 8 notebooks have been selling well for Taiwanese PC maker Asus, but overall Microsoft’s new operating system has yet to find a major following, the company said. “I think the acceptance of Windows 8 in Q4 ...
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European Union antitrust officials today hit Microsoft with a $732 million fine for failing to live up to a 2009 settlement that requires it to offer Windows users a choice of alternate browsers. The announcement made by Joaquin Almunia, ...
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