ummary: Skype not only powers Facebook’s video calling feature, but it now offers Facebook-to-Facebook calling directly from its Windows clients. The Mac update is coming soon.
01/18/2012
— Filed under: Internet
Tags: Facebook, Microsoft, Skype, Windows
Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. issued results yesterday that topped analysts’ estimates, showing that buoyant business demand is girding the largest technology companies against Europe’s debt crisis and a consumer-spending slump.
Microsoft’s Windows 8 on tablets is more than a sideline or gimmick, according to an analyst. Instead, it’s a necessity for the Windows franchise.
When Microsoft (MSFT) finally enters the tablet business later this year with Windows 8, it may find itself shut out of a market ruled by Apple’s (AAPL) iPad and Google (GOOG) Android devices.
12/18/2011
— Filed under: Internet
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8
Microsoft’s recent decision to end its run at the International Consumer Electronics Show has left a cloud over the world’s largest gathering of gadget geeks.
According to published reports, Microsoft is working on delivering a capability to run Linux on its Windows Azure cloud platform.
12/13/2011
— Filed under: Markets,Software
Tags: Linux, Microsoft
Microsoft may charge business users for Skype video archiving and authentication, but keep the base consumer video service free, according to one high-ranking company executive.
Conyer is credited for helping launch both the Xbox and Xbox 360.
11/29/2011
— Filed under: Games,Hardware
Tags: Microsoft, Xbox
With Xbox being one of the most selling gaming consoles around the world, the rumours of its successor has been around the web for quite a while. The latest one suggests that there will be two versions of the next generation Xbox for the 2013 launch during the autumn. One of them could be a low cost set top box type console capable of streaming games and other media directly from the web and the other being a regular full size console with all the latest hardwares like the storage drives, optical drives and will be capable of playing the Xbox 360 line up of games.
11/16/2011
— Filed under: Gadgets,Markets
Tags: Microsoft, Xbox
Microsoft is tweaking its Windows Update service with Windows 8, and is trying to limit the number of restarts for consumers and small business users to one per month. Also, instead of the current 15-minute warning that a reboot is required, users will have three days to choose the most convenient time to update their PCs. In businesses, where IT administrators set group policies to prevent automatic restarts, users will get a notification on their log-on screen to tell them that a restart is required. This notification will remain until a restart is performed.
11/8/2011
— Filed under: Internet,Software
Tags: Microsoft, Windows Update
