Monthly Archives: November 2011
Windows Video – Building social games for Windows 8 with Windows Azure
Another video from Microsoft. Building a great social gaming experience for your users can be a challenging task. Your game has to be well designed, have a great user interface... Read more
Windows Video – Building scalable web applications with Windows Azure
Another Windows Azure video. Learn how to harness the power of both the modern browser and the cloud to build a lightning fast Web app. Microsoft go in depth into... Read more
Windows Video – Building Xbox LIVE games for Windows 8
New Windows 8 video from Microsoft. Xbox LIVE, Microsoft's premier entertainment service, is coming to Windows 8. Whether you are developing a game or another kind of entertainment app for... Read more
Poll – Should Microsoft spin off their Windows Gaming division?
There's a fantastic article on seekingalpha.com by Dana Blankenhorn. He makes the point that Microsoft stock "will always be weighed-down by the volume, and outlook, of Microsoft Windows. The business... Read more
Samsung unveils new chip – Exynos 5250
It's very possible that Samsung will take a long hard look at building ARM tablets and notebooks with its own Exynos processors. It just released the new Exynos 5250. The... Read more
What Does Microsoft Need To Do In Order To Succeed With Its Tablets?
Entering into the tablet market isn't an easy affair. Tablets haven't been a craze for very long and yet they have already had at least one casualty and at least... Read more
Do Tablets Threaten The Big-Screen TV?
While going through my normal morning ritual of hitting Google Reader in search of interesting tech news for the various writing projects I am work on, one article in particular... Read more
The evolution of the Windows 8 Login screen
The website Winunleaked released a series of screenshots showing the Windows 8 login screens from M3 to the most current pre-beta. As Tom Warren at Winrumors.com points out, they do... Read more
Do Consumers Really Care About Tablet Operating Systems?
So far, this week has been a tough one for Microsoft's Windows 8 team. Forrester released their report that fewer consumers want a Windows 8 tablet when one does finally... Read more
Intel looking forward to Windows 8
From ZDNet. Intel CEO Paul Otellini seems to be extremely excited about Microsoft's upcoming Operating System. So excited in fact that he said Windows 8 is “one of the best things... Read more
HP to allegedly launch a Windows 8 Tablet at CES 2012
I'll be at CES 2012 in Vegas to get the first hand announcements about Windows 8 from Mr. Ballmer but it seems that there might be much more to cover... Read more
