Let me repeat that a little more verbosely. Watch for Windows Phone to grab a serious hunk of market share at the end of 2012. No doubt about it. "Huh?" you ask. Believe it.
The Feibus-is-crazy club most assuredly is enjoying a surge in membership right about now. And why not? There is certainly plenty of evidence to suggest that Windows Phone thus far has underwhelmed.
The Windows 8 Metro Start screen can quickly get overrun with a huge number of tiles, making it hard to find the app you need. How can you manage this mishmash?
Users who've taken the Windows 8 beta for a spin already know that the Metro Start screen poses certain challenges. For every app you install - Metro or non-Metro -- one or sometimes several tiles are plopped onto the Start screen. Each Web site you pin gets its own Start screen tile. Displaying features such as Administrative Tools adds even more tiles.
“We just don’t know.”
That’s come to be a common refrain offered by many of us Microsoft watchers when asked about many (most?) things having to do with Windows 8. Despite the fact the operating system is available in Consumer Preview form, and soon to be available as a near-final Release Candidate (or possibly “Release Preview”), there are still lots of unanswered questions.
Microsoft has acknowledged a two-year countdown to remind Windows users that support for its Windows XP operating system and Microsoft Office 2003 suite will end in 2014.
The Microsoft Windows team said in a blog post that it now is a good time for organisations that still have PCs running Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003 to begin the inevitable migration to Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010.
Microsoft is testing a beta of an Azure-based online backup service for Windows Server 8.
The Online Backup Service is a Windows-Azure-based service that will enable Windows Server 8 users to back up and recover files and folders (but not system state). There’s a downloadable Online Backup Agent that is meant to transfer this data securely to the cloud, and which uses the Windows Server Backup Interface. The backup can be configured via Computer Management or PowerShell cmdlets, as Finn pointed out earlier this month.
News site WinUnleaked.tk revealed that it had received a copy of a pre-release candidate version of Windows 8 over the weekend and offered up some tidbits of information about the build.
They also stated that the Release Candidate version was being targeted by Microsoft for a public release sometime in late May or early June and posted a few screenshots showing some interesting if somewhat minor features.
The race is on to develop a working exploit for MS-12-020 - A serious vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol which was patched earlier this week.
The vulnerability affects all current versions of Windows (though the service is usually disabled by default and there are other methods of mitigating the risk). While Microsoft originally predicted that it would take approximately 30 days for an exploit to surface, it appears that the timeframe may be cut shorter. Much shorter.
Tom Smith, chief marketing manager for Nissan North America, planned to unveil the redesigned Pathfinder at the Chicago Auto Show in February. His problem: Although much of the allure of the new Pathfinder is in its upgraded interior, Smith didn’t have the whole car to show off, just a fiberglass shell.
Microsoft's 'most radically redesigned version of Windows since Windows 95 (their words, not ours)--Windows 8 is garnering consumer attention, although Indian CIOs are shaking their heads.
Indian CIOs aren't ready to kiss their existing operating systems goodbye and make way for the new touch-centric operating system.
The Desktop in Windows 8 is little more than an afterthought, by design. I've got the evidence that shows why Microsoft hopes to kill it off as soon as it can.
