When you are in charge of your company’s or organization’s infrastructure, you need to plan ahead. That’s probably one of the core reasons why many tech savvy users are speculating about the release date of the beta and final release of the Windows 8 operating system. A larger group is made up of tech enthusiasts [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Windows

Apple this week announced their new iCloud service, bringing together MobileMe and iTunes in the cloud. With it though they also announced they were dropping support for Windows XP from the new product. Indeed they were only supporting their own desktop operating system, OS X, going back four years to 10.5 ‘Leopard’ too. This raises [...]

Categories: Apple, Microsoft

The largest test yet of the Internet’s new IPv6 addressing system is taking place worldwide today.  Companies including Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Facebook are switching on IPv6 versions of their websites for a one day trial. The current Internet addressing system, IPv4 has almost run out of addresses as its designers never anticipated the explosion [...]

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The first Windows 8 video, that Microsoft posted on June 2 on YouTube, offered a sneak peek of the touch interface of the upcoming Microsoft operating system. It caused quite the confusion, as many viewers assumed that the operating system would look like that on their desktop PC as well. From what we could gather, [...]

Categories: Windows

Information about Microsoft’s next version of Windows have been limited to indirect sources including job postings, Windows 8 leaks or third party sites that got insider information. Yesterday Microsoft published a first demonstration video showcasing Windows 8 at the AllThings D9 event. The first official Windows 8 video concentrates on the new tablet user interface [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Windows

This story has been repeated elsewhere on the Internet under, you might think, more sensible headlines such as “influential hedge fund manager…”, “New York Hedge Fund Manager” and so on. I’m sticking to my guns with my headline though, but not because I think Steve Ballmer should stay on at Microsoft. At an investment conference [...]

Categories: Microsoft

For all of you who have been to a Microsoft Tech.Day or TechEd event you’ll be familiar with the format.  A series of presentations throughout the day, organised into relevant groupings, on various Microsoft technologies and including a scattering of guest speakers from industry.  You’ll commonly find that there are no new announcements made at [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Recently there have been many tech websites telling you that they attended Microsoft’s TechNet conference.  They sat in the audience at the various presentations and fed back news.  At gHacks we’re doing things a little differently and I’ll be at Microsoft’s UK Tech.Days in London when they start on Monday at the request of Microsoft [...]

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There’s been so much news in recent weeks about stuff that’s going to turn into our computing future that I’m hardly surprised most people have failed to join the dots. If you look at some of, if not all of, the major technology announcements in recent weeks we can see that there is a very [...]

Categories: Apple, Google, Microsoft