About 100 people waited outside Boston’s Microsoft Store Friday to buy the company’s new Surface tablet, which runs a new version of Windows. Unlike previous versions of the operating system, Windows RT runs on an ARM ...
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Hot on the heels of Friday’s Windows 8 release—and shortly before the full unveiling of Windows Phone 8 Monday—Microsoft released the Windows Phone desktop app for its latest computer operating systems, Windows 8 and ...
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Microsoft has set the ambitious goal for Windows 8 of 400 million devices in customer hands by next July and more than 100,000 applications stocked in the Windows Store by the end of January, according to a top Microsoft sales exec. Keith ...
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Microsoft will webcast the opening hour of its Windows 8 and Surface RT launch Thursday,the company said today. The keynote,which starts at 11:15 a.m.ET,is the only part of the day-long event in New York that will be publicly ...
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US-based enterprise content management (ECM) software developer Hyland Software has introduced the new OnBase Insurance Field Adjuster App for specific use on Windows 8 platform. Developed in close cooperation with Microsoft, the new ...
Computerworld-Enterprise IT decision makers are about half as enthusiastic about the new Windows 8 as they were three years ago about the then-just-released Windows 7,an analyst said today. Employees,however,have a higher-than-expected ...
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CIO-With three major mobile platforms to choose from,what is an ambitious mobile app developer to do? There are Android and iOS,with 700,000 available apps each and huge market exposure--and the fierce developer competition that comes ...
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SAP announced strong support for the Windows 8 platform this week,including six upcoming mobile apps that focus on business training,recruiting and sales. One of the six apps announced Tuesday was built first for Windows 8.Called SAP ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft has confirmed what many had suspected,that it didn't offer a 16GB Surface RT tablet because there would have been virtually no room for customer content on the device. According to a FAQ published Monday,a 32GB ...
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Microsoft makes more than$300 on each Surface RT tablet it sells,showing that the company has adopted the business model of its rival,Apple,analysts said yesterday. According to IHS iSuppli,which disassembled a 32GB Surface to estimate ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft yesterday made it official,saying that the replacement for the now-dead-and-buried"Metro"brand for apps on Windows is"Windows 8 Store." In a session at the company's BUILD developer's conference Tuesday,Will ...
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Computerworld-The apps for Microsoft's new Windows operating systems are good enough to entice early buyers of tablets and other touch devices,analysts said Sunday. But the jury remains out on Microsoft's long-term chances of winning its ...
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CSO-In Windows 8,Microsoft has greatly improved the operating system's ability to detect malware before it has a chance to run,experts say.Windows 8 should also make it more difficult for people to unknowingly install malware in the first ...
Computerworld - Four purported Microsoft TV advertisements for Windows 8 have leaked to the Web, and strut the operating system's new "Modern" user interface (UI). The ads, which each run 54 seconds, were first revealed by the Israeli ...
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Mozilla last week released the first public preview of a Firefox browser that runs in Windows 8's touch-first"Modern"or"Metro"user interface(UI). The Firefox app for Modern--the UI dubbed"Metro"until Microsoft ditched the term over ...