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We hope there weren’t too many PC gamers clinging to Windows 7 for dear life, because Microsoft isn’t about to rescue them with a near-term DirectX update. The company’s Daniel Moth (and supporting documentation) states that DirectX 11.1 is exclusive “for all practical purposes” to Windows 8-based platforms, including Windows RT and Windows Server 2012 Continue Reading →

We’ve known for some time that Microsoft was working on bringing Internet Explorer 10 to Windows 7 — in fact, the company published a blog post promising the preview version would be ready sometime in mid-November. Then, we heard it could be available on Tuesday. Well, looky here! It is! The Release Preview is indeed Continue Reading →

Turning on an Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3 / Nintendo Wii: Walk to living room, pick up television controller. Turn on television, select input / applicable volume / etc. Put down television controller. Pick up gamepad. Turn on power. Select profile. Five steps. Let’s compare this to Nintendo’s new console, the Wii U. Walk to living Continue Reading →

Key to Windows 8 are its new user interface elements, and its added touch-powered features. However, while these fresh capabilities open doors, at the same time they represent challenges; users need to be trained in the new features of Windows 8. To that end, Microsoft has invested heavily in opening stores, and new ‘pop-up’ stores Continue Reading →

Microsoft is moving one step closer to releasing its Office applications on iPad, iPhone and Android, according to a recent report by The Verge. Although rumours about Office Mobile have been circulating for some time now – especially once an iPad version was spotted by The Daily – there has been very little evidence to suggest Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121107_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] One of the hottest recent trends in entertainment tech is second-screen viewing. Whether you’re watching The Walking Dead with AMC’s Story Sync or checking into GetGlue while watching 30 Rock, chances are you’ve at least tinkered with your tablet or phone at one point or another when Continue Reading →

Goodbye, Windows Live Messenger. As the BBC notes, Microsoft will soon be retiring its instant message chat tool and will instead be encouraging users to use Skype. “Skype and Messenger are coming together,” wrote Tony Bates, President of the Skype Division at Microsoft, on Tuesday. “We will retire Messenger in all countries worldwide in the first quarter Continue Reading →

Windows 8 is rife with features and behaviors that conspire to perplex even the most experienced PC users. Not all of them are bad, per se, but few of them are immediately intuitive. Making matters worse, the OS was primarily designed for touch control, and as a result, many mouse and keyboard commands feel like Continue Reading →

On Monday at an event in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled the final pieces of its Windows Phone 8 product. Previously, the company had detailed a number of features of the update to is mobile platform, focusing on developer tools and capabilities. Today, the consumer side of the software was shown off. This post is divided Continue Reading →

If you have a startup, ignore the business plan, financial projections, valuations and statistics (for now), and look at yourself: Are you the kind of CEO that investors will want to spend $1 million USD to have coffee or champagne with? The entrepreneurial path is lonely, desperate and poor, and often ends in sadness. Statistic Continue Reading →