Microsoft Talk

"Microsoft will release a "release preview" version of Windows 8 will be released in the first week of June, the company announced this evening." - LANjackal

"Days before Google’s official entry in the cloud hosting space (see Google Drive announcement here) comes Microsoft’s announcement that they have improved their cloud hosting service SkyDrive. The service now supports file uploads of up to 300 Megabyte in the web browser (2 Gigabyte syncing from the desktop, at least under Windows 8), as well as the Open Document Format, short url support for Windows Phone images shared to Twitter, and sharing to Twitter." - LANjackal

"As Microsoft works on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and Xbox, users will be pulled back into its orbit, one product at a time." - LANjackal

"India has hired Microsoft to roll-out student cloud email services to 7 million students in the country; thought to be the world’s largest cloud deployment to date." - LANjackal

"Windows Phone Will get $150 Million as Carrier Seeks to Fill the Void Created After Rivals Got Their Hands on Apple's Still-Hot Handset" - LANjackal

"As of last week, we have a working browser in Metro. It currently looks and feels the same as the Android browser. You can navigate the web, create tabs, bookmark pages, build history, retain cache, adjust preferences, and more." - LANjackal

"It's pretty basic, sure. But it's a lot faster than Adobe Reader in my experience, and is useful even for those that typically stick to the Windows 8 desktop experience." - LANjackal

"Mozilla has turned Firefox around. These numbers don't lie." - LANjackal

"Powered by the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) technologies that back these services, the new Metro-style Calendar app connects to Microsoft's services, of course. But it also connects to other EAS-based calendars, including Google Calendar." - LANjackal

"Configurable account types include Facebook (contacts, what's new and photos), Google (Gmail contacts), Hotmail (contacts, Windows Live what's new), Exchange (including Office 365 and Exchange Active Sync, or EAS; contacts), LinkedIn (contacts), Twitter (through Windows Live; contacts, tweets, and photos)." - LANjackal

"We know the Release Candidate of Windows 8 will be shared with the public between the end of May to the beginning of June, The Release Candidate is still labeled HB1 in the ISO tag, this mean actual builds are only « Post-BETA »." - LANjackal

"There's so much more to the desktop, including a deeper understanding of how the Metro experiences pervade (or invade) into this environment, significant enhancements to multi-monitor support that most benefit desktop users, the coming SkyDrive app that will provide cloud extensibility to the file system, the ability to boot directly to the desktop and skip the Start screen, and more." - LANjackal

"When it comes to naming Windows anti-virus vendors, is Microsoft's Security Essentials one of the vendors on the tip of your tongue? Well, it should be, at least according to OPSWAT, the anti-virus tools vendor. In their last market share report released this week, their share rose to nearly 15% of the North American market, making it the top single product." - LANjackal

"“Storage Spaces” is a new feature in Windows 8 that can combine multiple hard drives into a single virtual drive. It can mirror data across multiple drives for redundancy or combine multiple physical drives into a single pool of storage." - LANjackal

"Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will finish work on Windows 8 this summer, setting the stage for personal computers and tablets with the operating system to go on sale around October, according to people with knowledge of the schedule." - LANjackal

"The PC needs saving. With Windows 8, Microsoft believes it has the magic cure. It just might. I've been testing a consumer preview version of Windows 8 for the past week, and it's unlike anything I've ever seen in a PC operating system. The stunning "Metro" interface just begs you to touch and interact with it. Beautifully designed apps, ultra-simple navigation, and instinctive commands" - LANjackal

I haven't seen a more recent build, but the last UI I saw for Win 8 was very similar to the new XBox 360 ui, and the windows phone UI, and I consider those to be very ugly. I don't know why, I just don't like them. - Joe "The Anvil" Pierce

"The Firefox developer, seeking a foothold in mobile browsing, is poised to accept patented video technology it had spurned. That underscores the challenges for Google's competing WebM." - LANjackal

"As of Monday of this week, development work began on Firefox for Metro." - LANjackal

"here are some of the key new task management features in Windows 8, many of which are also new to the Consumer Preview." - LANjackal

"In the Consumer Preview, however, the ways in which you can make a Windows 8 system fully customized are dramatically increased. Here is a short guide to some of the key ways in which you can personalize Windows 8." - LANjackal

"Under the new methodology, Chrome's share fell about one half of a percentage point to end February with 18.9%, off its peak of 19.1% last December. The browser remained in the No. 3 slot, behind both IE and Mozilla's Firefox." - LANjackal

"Windows 8 seems like it's chiefly setting its sights on the tablet market, and that's something that Google should fear. Here's why." - LANjackal

"APK Downloader is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to download Android APK files right on Android Market" - LANjackal

"New data from comScore suggests that Microsoft's Windows operating system is still the number one operating system when it comes to digital traffic market share. Despite the rapid growth in the mobile market with iOS and Android, Windows is still number one." - LANjackal

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"The coming Office 15 client apps all seem to be getting a new ‘touch mode’ button that will enable them to work better on touch-centric devices." - LANjackal

"Integration to include Metro-style app and the ability to fetch files from across the Web, Microsoft reveals." - LANjackal

"What is so different about today that caused such a drastic change in the way Apple announces and delivers a new operating system? They saw what Microsoft is doing with Windows 8 and panicked." - LANjackal

"Mozilla plans to release a concept version of Firefox for Windows 8's new Metro interface in the second quarter with alpha and beta versions to follow in the second half of 2012." - LANjackal

"In Steven Sinofsky’s thesis of Windows on ARM (generically dubbed WOA) published on the Building Windows 8 blog today, two photographs of an early development build of Windows running on prototype ARM hardware dates the effort to as far back as 22 January 2010, almost a week before iPad’s announcement on the 27th. Although Microsoft waited almost a year later to reveal WOA for the first time in public at a CES 2011 press conference, it’s now clear Microsoft too had future bets on an ARM-based ecosystem even before the iPad began selling and ARM took the spotlight for tablet devices." - LANjackal

"Microsoft today said it will host a launch event for the Windows 8 beta on Feb. 29 in Barcelona, the site of the Mobile World Congress." - LANjackal

"it looks like Microsoft's been working mighty hard to please those that just love using a pen and paper with Windows 8, offering a revamped metro-style handwriting interface in the consumer preview." - LANjackal

"The Daily had a chance to check out a pair of prototypes incorporating Kinect sensors over the last few days. The devices, which at first glance appear to be Asus netbooks running Windows 8, feature an array of small sensors stretching over the top of the screen where the webcam would normally be. At the bottom of the display is a set of what appear to be LEDs. A source at Microsoft has confirmed that the devices are indeed official prototypes of laptops featuring a Kinect sensor. In terms of functionality, there are hundreds of different ways that motion control could be leveraged in a portable. Gaming has the most obvious applications, but a Kinect-enabled laptop could also toggle between programs with the wave of a hand, or media controls could be tweaked with the wag of a finger. What’s more, motion-controlled portables could offer a new way for disabled individuals to interact with their devices." - LANjackal