Today was the day when Microsoft has presented its newest product – its own mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7. This new product represents the attempt of the Redmond giant to regain its position on the mobile operating system market, currently dominated by the traditional players like Symbian or growing contenders like iPhone OS or [...]
Microsoft will launch a record number of fixes on next Patch Tuesday: 16 security patches will fix 49 vulnerabilities in applications like Windows, Internet Explorer, SharePoint and Office. Four of the 16 patches are labeled Critical and 10 of them are Important. Most of the updates plug security holes that could allow malevolent internet users [...]
There were rumors circulating online about Microsoft‘s new mobile operating system Windows Phone 7 and about its launch at a media event held on October 11. These rumors were confirmed, so others took their place. The most recent rumors talk about Microsoft‘s own tablet PC that will be presented at the October 11 event. Maybe not [...]
October 11 is the date when Microsoft new and improved mobile operating system, the Windows Phone 7 will be released into the wild. The event will feature Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer and AT&T‘s Mobility and Consumer Markets CEO, Ralph de la Vega. They will hold a press conference in New York on the 11th to [...]
There is a new tech lawsuit going on: Microsoft has sued Motorola over a patent violation with its smartphones that use its competitor’s – Google’s – mobile operating system, Android. According to the suit filed at the International Trade Commission and the federal court of Seattle, Motorola’s Android smartphones violate nine patents owned by Microsoft. [...]
Microsoft has recently announced that the first Windows Phone 7 powered smartphone will be launched on October 11. In the light of recent news, this first WP7 smartphone might be released by Samsung. The Korean electronics manufacturer has announced that, given the finalized Windows Phone 7 license agreement, it is ready to release its smartphones [...]
Windows smartphones were good back then, but they never managed to gain a market share as big as the company expected: the emerging competitors like Apple and Android, and Nokia’s Symbian are still reigning supreme on this market segment. Microsoft now tries to make its way into the top of the smartphone OS market with [...]
Halo Reach is the new best selling video game on the world’s largest online shop, Amazon.com. Since its launch, the game developed by Bungie and distributed by Microsoft exclusively for the Redmond giant’s own game console, the Xbox 360, has even beaten a record: this was the game played by the most players simultaneously on [...]
Microsoft has released the first beta version of its soon-to-be popular internet browser, Internet Explorer 9. The new version of the browser – that has been released after four developer versions – has been optimized for speed and supports more web standards than any previous versions of the browser. Microsoft’s new browser version is the [...]
After the television transmissions have switched from analog to digital, lots of frequencies have remained vacant. These frequencies – called White Space – can be used to transmit and receive data – and Microsoft‘s engineers try to tap into this resource. Microsoft is testing a new technology called White-Fi. Weather they will get the permission [...]