Hopefully, you’ve checked out the walkthrough video of the Samsung Windows 8 tablet from Build 2011 but I actually couldn’t cover everything in there in that video. Sadly, I’ll have to give this tablet back soon so I decided to create another video to take a deeper dive into the software. As we covered before,…
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Photo tour of Microsoft Build: Windows 8, tablets and palm trees
We’ve been hanging out in sunny Southern California for the Build 2011 conference and Microsoft has brought the “wow” with the introduction of Windows 8 and it even gave 5,000 developers a Samsung tablet with the new operating system on it (Check out our hands-on with the tablet). While roaming the expo hall we ran…
NVIDIA launches Windows 8 app developer program
We’re at Build 2011 and have just been introduced to Windows 8 and one of the exciting things about it is that this touch-friendly platform will run on the ARM chipset. To help capitalize on this, NVIDIA has launched a Windows 8 developer program to help developer bring great apps to Windows 8 devices. What…
Hands-on: Windows 8 tablet at Build 2011
Microsoft just unveiled some more details about its ambitious Windows 8 operating system at Build 2011 and we’ve been playing with a prototype tablet for almost 24 hours and we must say that there’s a lot of promise with Microsoft’s new platform. Windows 8 isn’t the company’s tablet-specific OS, as it’s the next generation of…
Build 2011: Microsoft details ambitious, tablet-friendly Windows 8
As expected, Microsoft used Build 2011 to show off its upcoming Windows 8 platform and the operating system is described as a re-imagining of Windows for devices that can be 7 inches or 70 inches. Can Windows 8 make the iPad and Android Honeycomb shake in its boots or is Microsoft’s one-platform-for-all-form-factors strategy destined to…
Live: BUILD keynote 2011 – Meet Windows 8
We’re live in Anaheim for Microsoft’s BUILD 2011 conference and we’re about to hear what the company has to say for its opening day keynote. We’re expecting a lot of details about Windows 8 and we can finally see if Microsoft is doing something to counter the iPad and the threat of tablets. Windows 8…
Reminder: Microsoft Build keynote live, Sept. 13 at 9 a.m.
I’m all set up in Anaheim, Calif. for Microsoft’s BUILD conference and just wanted to drop a reminder that we’ll be live blogging the keynote tomorrow and Wednesday. It should be an exciting time with Windows 8 being shown off in a big way, so you should definitely join. As we mentioned in our preview,…
Microsoft BUILD 2011 preview: What’s up with Windows Phone?
I’ll be at Microsoft’s BUILD conference next week and the big news should be Windows 8 on tablets and we may even be getting a nice Samsung quad-core tablet to play around with. While Windows 8 should be sucking up most of the oxygen at the show, you have to wonder if we’ll see anything…