Microsoft's "Windows 8" and Apple’s Mac OS X franchise face a mobile-centric, "post-PC" world the only way they can: by embracing apps and other mobile features.
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In the past week, both Apple and Microsoft have laid out their next computer operating systems. In both cases, the features and design of the software are influenced heavily by what is going on in the phone and tablet markets.
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By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
Apple's newest operating is coming in July and with an unexpected price.
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A software programmer who wrote a jailbreak application that would replace and improve upon Apple's own iPhone notification system has been hired by Apple, AppleInsider can confirm.
Last week, word went out that Peter Hajas had stopped work on his "MobileNotifier" application for jailbroken...
Respected analyst firm Ovum says that while reports of Microsoft and Windows’ “imminent demise are somewhat over exaggerated”, it notes that the somewhat tardy software maker still has a lot of work to prove that Windows 8 will rate. With Apple launching its OS X 10.7 Lion, its iOS 5.0 and its...
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen claims there will be 130 million smartphone devices running Flash by the end of 2011. Maybe - but what about performance and power drain?
Indeed, as Walt Mossberg of All Things D told Narayen during a recent interview at the D9 conference, he has "yet to test a...
The debate about Windows 8 rages on in this episode of Fly or Die . CrunchGear editor John Biggs, who joins me from Las Vegas where he is attending a watch conference (don't ask) thinks nothing has really changed because users can always switch back from the touch interface to the old Windows. I...
Microsoft’s newly unveiled Windows 8 demo has showcased the company’s ability to, after a bazillion previous tablet attempts, finally come up with an OS and UI that looks like it might finally marry the tablet and desktop PC worlds into one harmonious union – despite some Apple-like behaviour...
Closed is the new open Microsoft is becoming more like Apple by bringing some hardware discipline to Windows 8 tablets, to the annoyance of OEMs who've had decades of freedom.… Server Hosting Solutions
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Microsoft says the next version of Windows will not be out this fall, making 2012 a better candidate. Will Apple be on iOS 6 by then?
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Microsoft Corp Windows President Steven Sinofsky previewed a touch-screen version of the operating system that can work on tablets, offering a glimpse of his company’s response to Apple Inc’s iPad.
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Reports out of the All Things Digital Conference in California and the Computex show in Asia say Microsoft (MSFT) showed off its Windows 8 operating systems for use on tablet computers in recent sessions of the meetings. The operating system is Microsofts challenge to Apples (AAPL) iPad and...
SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. Windows president Steven Sinofsky previewed a touchscreen version of the operating system that can work on tablets, offering a glimpse of his company’s response to Apple Inc.’s iPad. Windows 8 resembles Microsoft’s software for mobile phones and uses “tiles,” rather...