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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,…
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…
Talk about biting off more than you can chew. Stephen Elop Nokia’s CEO is on record to promising the first Nokia Windows Phone to hit the market in Q4. In this interview in China (below), Stephen Elop talks about the roll-out of Windows Phone 7 handsets, saying “it will start in Q4 and progress from country…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Windows Phone users on AT&T have a lot to look forward to this fall. With the coming of Windows Phone 7.5, also known as Mango, the carrier plans to update its current WP7 portfolio of handsets to the new software version. Additionally, it will be launching three new Windows Phone 7 handsets: HTC Titan, Samsung…
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…
During next week’s Microsoft Build event, we’re expecting to see Windows 8 on tablets and this should be Microsoft’s best attempt to derail the momentum of the iPad. One of the best features of the iPad is its instant-on ability, so how will Windows 8 stack up? Well, according to the official video below, Windows…