We’re starting to see the first leaks of the next version of Windows, Windows 8.1 or ‘Blue’ but while the leaks haven’t shown anything seriously different (apart from the new ‘Kiosk mode’), there are rumours starting to float around that Microsoft might actually go back to providing the old Start button and menu. While you [...]
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If you’re buying an Android device as a way of making a point to Microsoft, you might want to stop and rethink your efforts. A report by digitimes.com is claiming that many of the major Android device suppliers are now paying patent licensing fees to the software giant. Samsung, LG, HTC, Acer, Viewsonic, Nikon, along [...]
It’d be fair to say that Microsoft’s Windows RT hasn’t exactly set the world on fire for sales. In fact, IDC has recently gone further and all but laid the blame of the current PC slow down at the feet of the former high-flying software maker and its Windows 8 operating system. However, it’s being reported [...]
It’s the operating system that has lasted longer than any other, but Microsoft has today begun flagging that its ever-popular Windows XP has entered into the final phase of official support. The software giant will officially end support for the 2001-era OS in exactly a year’s time on April 8, 2014. That means there’ll be [...]
Oracle has joined Microsoft and Red Hat in becoming the latest to stop all software development for Intel’s Itanium processor. The software giant today made a brief announcement, indicating that after discussions with the chip maker that it would stop all software development for the ageing processor. It cited Intel’s general focus on its X86 [...]