A excellent chunk of Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs focuses on Microsoft and Bill Gates. In the book, he characterizes former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates as “a business person” but not someone who necessarily made fantastic products: “He finished up the wealthiest guy around, and if that was his goal, then he achieved [...]
Microsoft Drops Windows Media Player to the Play Store
Media player apps for Android are a dime a dozen. Some play certain file types better than others, while some have better UI’s than others. A further media player has just hit the Play Store courtesy of Microsoft… Read More… new android apps
Fail: Windows Contest Backfires When Galaxy Nexus Beats Lumia 800
Promotional contests are fantastic when the product being promoted wins. But when the whole contest backfires, you’re left with a smoldering pile of wreckage where your marketing slogan used to be. That’s what happened to Windows over the weekend, as their "Phone Challenge" promotional contest suffered its first defeat at the hands of Android. Android [...]
Windows Phone 8 Details Revealed
Microsoft’s renewed push for its Windows Phone platform centers on Mango, an update with hundreds of tweaks and features. Over the next few months, manufacturers such as Nokia will push an array of new smartphones boasting the software. It should come as no surprise, of course, that Microsoft is already thinking ahead to subsequent Windows [...]
Nokia to Launch Windows 8 Tablet Pc in Q4, 2012
Nokia will team up with Microsoft to enter the Tablet PC business by end of year 2012 Also market sources indicate that the device will be running Windows 8 OS with dual core dispensation chip Nokia will rumor has it that outsource the production to Compal and the first batch will not be less than [...]
