By Paul Thurrott, 05/22/2012
Windows 8 will usher in a new era of tablet devices that will make today’s traditional laptops look like the dinosaurs they are.
By Paul Thurrott, 05/21/2012
China antitrust authorities have approved Google’s proposed $12.5 billion purchase of handset maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the online advertising giant to ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/21/2012
With tech enthusiast web sites from around the world starting to leak Windows 8 Release Preview screenshots, your intrepid “Windows 8 Secrets” co-authors offer a bit of color ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/21/2012
With tech enthusiast web sites from around the world starting to leak Windows 8 Release Preview screenshots, your intrepid “Windows 8 Secrets” co-authors offer a bit of color ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/21/2012
Microsoft today is touting a collection of “official” wallpaper images for Windows Phone that users can apply to their handset’s lock screen. As you might expect, the images are ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/21/2012
This week, Microsoft introduced a social network of its own, the awkwardly named So.cl (and, yes, it’s pronounced as “social”). But rather than being a full-fledged competitor to ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/21/2012
In a new post to the Visual Studio Blog, Microsoft has detailed more information about the Visual Studio 11 product editions and which platforms the new developer suite will ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/21/2012
Today, the existence of three new Metro-style apps in the Windows 8 Release Preview was leaked by the usual web sources.
By Paul Thurrott, 05/21/2012
A lot has changed with antitrust regulators in the EC since they took Microsoft to court again and again to answer for its predatory practices in the desktop OS market. Now, ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/21/2012
Anyone hoping that last week’s Facebook IPO was going to trigger a new wave of Internet bubble hysteria came away disappointed after the social networking giant stumbled badly and ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/20/2012
In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Iyaz Akhtar and I discuss the cost of Microsoft's coming Windows 8 update offer, a Windows 8 Release Preview ... preview, ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/20/2012
Unless you’re a serious old timer, you probably don’t remember when copy and paste functionality, now a common and expected feature, was added to Windows. Well, this time you have ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/19/2012
Microsoft quietly revealed this week that it will kill off the Aero glass interface in Windows 8 and replace it with a flat, Metro-like Explorer that’s more in line with the ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/18/2012
HTC Titan II offers features such as a good camera that Windows smartphone users would have clamored for--before Nokia Lumia 900. SkyDrive maps cloud-based storage to the PC--but ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/18/2012
Both Microsoft and Apple are racing to infuse their desktop operating systems with technologies and usage patterns from their respective mobile platforms. And while each is taking ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/18/2012
An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including Windows Phone market share surges thanks to Lumia 900, AT&T has big expectations for Windows Phone thanks to Windows ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/18/2012
This week on What The Tech: It seems a refresh is on it’s way for the Macbook Pro. Andrew Zarian and Paul Thurrott discuss the rumored models. Andrew and Paul also talk about ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/17/2012
Three weeks back, I wrote about the pending release of programming legend Charles Petzold’s most recent book, the 6th edition of the classic Programming Windows. Well, that day ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/17/2012
Just hours after Microsoft launched the biggest revamp of its Bing search engine since its inception 3 years earlier, the search industry’s 800-pound gorilla announced an update ...
By Paul Thurrott, 05/16/2012
As noted previously, the big deal with the Windows 8 Release Preview will be the updated bundled apps, not the underlying platform. And this week, Microsoft actually leaked some ...