Microsoft today must deliver on expectations that have been mounting since the sluggish start of Windows 8 eight months ago, analysts said. "This is an important turning point; this is about keeping the energy in Windows 8 and keeping ...
Microsoft kicked off its Build conference in San Francisco this week by releasing a preview of the next version of its Visual Studio IDE, as well as updates to other development tools. How user input and follow-up interactions are ...
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Microsoft today shipped Windows 8.1, the free upgrade to Windows 8, with CEO Steve Ballmer calling it "a refined blend" of what many critics had called a jarring disconnect between its two radically different user interfaces. The upgrade, ...
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Microsoft today briefly previewed an Office application designed for the Windows "Modern," née "Metro," user interface (UI), and said it would launch the touch-enabled suite next year. "This is big," said Frank Gillett, an analyst ...
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In its ongoing challenge to attract more users to Windows 8, Microsoft is offering bits of its Bing Internet search service to boost the functionality of third-party Windows Store applications. "We're opening up Bing as an application ...
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The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) is set to abandon issuing staff with BlackBerry smartphones as the council looks to move towards a Windows 8-based ecosystem. It forms part of RBWM's overall strategy of moving towards a ...
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Contract Documents team announced today several additions and updates to its suite of offerings: a brand-new family of Program Management documents; a new, free Guide for Small Projects; an updated ...
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Microsoft is close to another restructuring that could see several senior managers moved sideways or leaving the company as it reduces its number of business units from eight to four. The restructuring is being prepared by a small group ...
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For EasyJet, tablets running on Windows 8 - such as Microsoft Surface Pro - would be preferable to Apple's iPad because they're more compatible with the rest of the office ecosystem. That's according to CIO Trevor Didcock who made the ...
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Gartner is giving the thumbs up to Windows 8.1, crediting the operating system refresh with overcoming the major downsides of Windows 8. Improvements to Windows 8 that will become available next week should prompt businesses to ...
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Mobile Helix, the enterprise application and data security platform provider, has launched Link, which it describes as the industry’s first pure HTML5 platform. Link unlocks enterprise productivity by combining unparalleled security ...
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Microsoft took a two-year-old contest and turned it on its head to come up with a new reward program that will pay security researchers up to $100,000 for demonstrating novel attack tactics against Windows 8.1. In a broad announcement ...
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Intel is now looking to the Android operating system as it breaks away from years of optimizing its top line of Core PC processors, including the recently launched Haswell processors, chiefly for Windows. Intel is looking to hire a ...
Lenovo is bringing another Windows 8 tablet to market -- this one made with keyboard cover in mind -- along with five new touch-based laptops that are slated to arrive globally in July and August. Lenovo's new Miix tablet that can come ...
Microsoft on Wednesday backpedaled from a long-standing refusal to pay bug bounties when it announced a temporary program for the beta of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11). The Internet Explorer 11 Preview Bug Bounty will start June 26, the day ...