Microsoft

With PC sales crashing and burning, it’s not surprising that several PC OEMs are still fuming about Windows 8, the operating system that has so far failed to reignite the PC industry. And now two unnamed OEM sources have told ZDNet that Microsoft and Windows 8 are primarily to blame for the accelerated decline in Continue Reading →

Windows 8 touch laptop prices are headed south. Way south, according to Intel executives. The price of Windows 8 touch devices, including laptops, will sink to price points that penetrate inexpensive tablet territory. These new “innovative” designs will be based on Intel’s upcoming quad-core “Bay Trail” chip, Intel executives said today during the company’s first-quarter Continue Reading →

Microsoft announced that it has launched two-step authentication for its Microsoft accounts. This optional feature, which will roll out to all Microsoft accounts over the next few days, works pretty much exactly like the two-factor authentication schemes you are probably already familiar with. Besides your usual password, you will also need a second piece of Continue Reading →

Due to Microsoft’s confirmation that support for its Silverlight plugin will end and the rise of plugin-free browsers, Netflix will eventually need to stream to PCs using something other than the tech it’s had in place since 2008. The company has already implemented one example of the technology for Samsung’s ARM Chromebooks, and plans to Continue Reading →

Attention, people of Earth: the time has come to stop getting hit by cars while you stare at your smartphones. In the future, you will be hit by cars while staring at your wrists. With Apple believed to be working on a smart watch, and with Google and Samsung hot on its heels, it was Continue Reading →

Microsoft is planning to change the way its Start Screen operates with the release of Windows 8.1. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans have revealed to The Verge that the company is currently testing builds of Windows 8.1, known as codename Windows Blue, that include an option to boot directly to the traditional desktop. We’re told Continue Reading →

Announced Monday morning, and partially released over the night, Bing’s AppEx team has updated six core Windows 8 applications: News, Weather, Finance, Travel, Sports, and Maps. These are among the applications that are pre-installed on Windows 8, meaning that they are present on north of 60 million computers that run Microsoft’s new operating system. Before Continue Reading →

Google made some news earlier this week when it announced that it was bringing its high-speed Internet service, Google Fiber, to Austin sometime next year. AT&T also announced that it would follow in Google’s footsteps and bring Fiber Internet to Austin. Google Fiber made the news because it is going to offer speeds of up Continue Reading →

Not all search engines are created equal—and when it comes to Microsoft’s Bing, it seems that means malicious websites are happily returned far more often than by Google. An 18-month project by German independent testing lab AV-Test reveals that Bing returns five times as many results which link through to malware infested websites than Google. Continue Reading →

Microsoft could be working on developing a mini-version of its Surface tablet. According to the Wall Street Journal, the software giant has begun developing a lineup of new tablets that some believe will go into mass production later this year. According to the Wall Street Journal, the motivation behind this move is that Microsoft is Continue Reading →