By Paul Thurrott, 02/08/2012
This week on What The Tech: Andrew and Paul go over all of the newly leaked Windows 8 Consumer Preview screen shots and information. Why did Microsoft get rid of the Start button? ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/08/2012
Microsoft this week published an open letter to customers that describes the steps one can take to secure their Windows Live ID, the online account that back's the software ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/08/2012
This week, details of two Motorola Mobility patent-oriented legal attacks against Apple and Microsoft, respectively, and both in Germany, were revealed. The goal? To obtain a ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/07/2012
Microsoft announced today that it has delivered the first version of OneNote for Android handsets today. This release follows similar OneNote mobile versions for Windows Phone, ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/07/2012
The original HP Slate was highly touted at CES a few years back but the device itself got off to the quietest launch I can remember and never really amounted to much. But now HP ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/07/2012
It's always been confusing to me that the web browser in Google Android is not based on the company's excellent Chrome browser for PC desktops. That's changing, though: Google ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/07/2012
In Windows 8, Microsoft isn't just replacing the Windows shell with the new Metro-style Start screen. It's also replacing the low-level Windows runtime engine with a new ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/07/2012
An on-staff attorney with the ITC believes that ebook reader maker Barnes & Noble should win a patent-infringement lawsuit brought against it by Microsoft.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/07/2012
The trend toward the consumerization of IT has dramatic ramifications for end users who have unwittingly forced their employers to accept these changes.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/06/2012
Microsoft's Windows Phone has been racking up design awards since its release in late 2010, and now it's won another, this time from the Interactive Design Association (IxDA)'s ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/06/2012
While we eagerly await the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which is still expected to come sometime this month, two blogs have leaked numerous screenshots of what appears to be the ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/06/2012
Market researchers from Canalys announced that overall sales of smartphone handsets exceeded those of PCs in calendar year 2011.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/05/2012
In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly, Iyaz Akhtar, Mary Jo and I discuss the Office 15 Technical Preview, Windows 8 on ARM rumors, Windows Phone 8, AWS on Windows Phone, a ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/05/2012
This week in Windows 8: A few bland official blog posts, but some explosive news around Windows Phone 8, the Start orb, and Office 15. Plus, yes, we're writing about Windows Phone ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/05/2012
There have been a number of reports recently that the Start Orb, or what some still think of as the Start button, has been removed from the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Beta). This ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/04/2012
While everyone is understandably excited about the recent Windows Phone 8 leak, this revelation also tells us some things we didn't know about Windows 8. So let's look at what ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/03/2012
An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including a Windows Phone 8 leak, preordering a Nokia Lumia 900, Microsoft marketing layoffs, Facebook's IPO numbers, an uproar ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/03/2012
As part of its ongoing and quite targeted ad campaign against Google, Microsoft today offered up its third ad, which focuses on web browsing. The Microsoft offering here, of ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/02/2012
Thanks to a recent leak which has revealed some interesting information about the next major Windows Phone version, I can now publicly discuss Windows Phone 8 for the first time.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/02/2012
Earlier this week, Microsoft aggressively started attacking Google for its new privacy rules, and while Google weakly responded to the attack, Microsoft isn't letting up. Today, ...