Sunday December 22, 2024

Another Screen Shot Of The Upcoming Windows Start Menu Leaks

 Another week, another leak. Today we have a new, purported screenshot of the upcoming return of the Start Menu to Windows. Read More Tweet This Post

Digital Hints Point Towards More Unified Windows Experience

 A job posting and a LinkedIn page are driving conversation in the Microsoft-watching community this morning. The job listing details a position on the “XAML team [...] building the UI framework at the core of the ‘One Microsoft’ OS.” The goal of that team is to “[enable] developers to create UI that works well across all […]

Screenshot Claims To Show Off The Coming Windows 8.1 Start Menu

 Mostly lost in the noise surrounding the World Cup final, a screenshot floated around the Microsoft-watching community. The image picked up attention because it contains what some claim is an image of the soon-to-return Start Menu in Windows 8.1. Microsoft promised that the user interface element would come back in a keynote this April. In the […]

Windows XP’s Enterprise Market Share Slips Under 10%

 According to security firm Qualys, Windows XP’s market share among enterprise-level corporations has slipped under the 10 percent mark, falling from 10 percent in April to “close to” 8 percent in May. Read More Tweet This Post

Turning The Ship: Microsoft Might Have Begun A Subtle Shift From Windows To Services

 Since Steve Ballmer passed the torch to Satya Nadella earlier this year, it marked a sea change in the organization: the first time in its history one of the founding team wasn’t running the show. Changes were expected and have happened. A surprising one is a subtle shift toward a service model and what appears to […]

Microsoft Reportedly Will Rebrand “Windows Azure” To “Microsoft Azure”

According to a report in ZDNet, Microsoft will change the name of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform to Microsoft Azure. The announcement is expected tomorrow, with an effective date of April 3, the first day of the Build developer conference. I’ve reached out to Microsoft for comment on the reported name change and will […]

Fleep, The Team Messaging App Built & Funded By ‘Skype Mafia’, Adds Mac, Windows And Android Apps

Fleep is adding Android, Mac and Windows to the list of supported platforms for its team-messaging app. Read More Tweet This Post

APPLE throws CarPlay into drive — Microsoft’s CORTANA takes on Siri — WINDOWS XP won’t die — COOK book, a mystery — ANDROID steals Apple tablet crown

March 3, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Snooping on WIKILEAKS, Anonymous — YAHOO gets into search — BITCOIN ATMs in Seattle, Austin — ICYMI: iOS tops Windows PC sales — 22 TECH EXECS make $20M+

February 18, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

BITCOIN flaw flagged — Top Windows analyst curses MICROSOFT — SNOWDEN jacked NSA with basic crawler — AWS mystery bandwidth THROTTLE

February 10, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post