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* Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, said at a conference in Japan that the company’s next operating system will be ready for release in 2012. According to UPI.com, Ballmer confirmed the next OS would be called Windows 8.... Link Removed

The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8 and it's coming in 2012, or is it? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called the new OS Windows 8 on Monday and said it would be coming out next year during a speech at a developer conference in Tokyo, according to a transcript on Microsoft's site...

Windows 7 has been a resounding success for Microsoft, helping to push customer satisfaction levels to an all-time high. The boys in Redmond aren’t resting on their laurels, however, and work on Windows 8 continues at a rapid pace. There’s been talk of Microsoft showing Windows 8 off at the...

Windows 8 comes 2012 says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. He made that statement in Japan at a developer conference. Ballmer says that we can expect to hear about Windows 8 slates, tablets, PCs in a... Source: Yahoo! News

Expect to hear more about the next version of Windows next week. It was just announced that Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live group, will speak at the All Things D conference next week in the Los Angeles area. Sinofsky [below] has a longtime relationship with...

The Channel 9 events area now includes all keynotes from previous Microsoft Professional Developers Conferences or as everyone calls it The PDC! Our archives start with the very first PDC which happened in Seattle in 1991 and go all the way up last fall’s event. We hope you enjoy this look back...

Dillon Beresford and Brian Meixell were planning to perform a demonstration of how to attack critical infrastructure at the TakeDown Conference but cancelled after they were "asked very nicely" to refrain from providing that information. Beresford, a security analyst at NSS Labs, told Link...

The final, conference-ready code for the #decodeme challenge is here. Each year, at the AusCERT conference, Sophos publishes a challenge in the form of a T-shirt. Visit the Sophos stand and you can pick up a T-shirt for yourself. Solve the challenge and you're on your way to winning a remote...

Google I/O Google co-founder Sergey Brin has said that only about 20 per cent of Google's employees are still using Microsoft Windows, and that all of those users are on Windows 7. He stressed, however, that he is not sure of the exact percentage. Rumors had indicated that within the...

RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis ceded the stage partway through his keynote address to his competitor, who proceeded to announce that Microsoft's Bing Search and Bing Maps products will be "fully integrated" into the BlackBerry platform later this year. Rather than simply supply a stand-alone app on...

Research in Motion (RIM) has announced it will make Bing the default search engine on BlackBerry phones starting this holiday season. The announcement at the BlackBerry World 2011 conference on May 3 was big enough to merit Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s appearance on stage. Details so far...

World players in the field of robotics gathered in the French city of Lyon for the first international InnoRobo event, where the experts all agreed that robots will become part of our daily life, just like mobile telephones or the internet. Link Removed

Scott's at the Intel Agile Conference today and got the chance to talk to Rally Software's Agile Fellow Jean Tabaka about why your project sometimes needs time to fail and whether we need both internships and a formal track within Software Development. Jean is a Certified ScrumMaster and...

Microsoft’s got a problem on its hands. True, it owns the most popular and lucrative desktop operating system on Earth, but it’s becoming increasingly obvious that mobile is the future of computing… and on that front, Microsoft just isn’t doing as well with its operating systems. Windows Phone 7...

Find out the deets on MIX this year by tuning in to the Countdown show with Link Removed and Link Removed each week. The inaugural show gives an overview of the conference this year, but let’s fast forward to the good stuff: how do you get your hands on that complimentary ticket? Well, MIX is...

Find out the deets on MIX this year by tuning in to the Countdown show with Link Removed and Link Removed each week. The inaugural show gives an overview of the conference this year, but let’s fast forward to the good stuff: how do you get your hands on that complimentary ticket? Well, MIX is...

mvcConf 2011 is streaming live from the (newly renovated) Channel 9 studios right now. To watch the broadcast - for free - in 720P smooth streaming head to: http://www.mvcconf.com For the full event schedule check out http://www.mvcconf.com/schedule Link Removed More...

UFOs Help Innovative Thinkers Look to the Future Where should forward-thinkers look when they seek innovative ideas? Perhaps to someone -- or something -- that's more innovative than they are. From Saturday to Tuesday, more than 100 of the world's leaders in business, politics...

Backstage at CES 2011 I bumped into some friends from The Office Blog. Jessica Reading gives us some insight into what we have to look forward to in 2011 and we meet a One Note wiz. Please excuse my audio on this one. I had a lav microphone clipped to my shirt and for some reason it wasn't...

Only two weeks remain until the Silverlight Firestarter. In this video, John and Scott Guthrie discuss the upcoming Silverlight Firestarter and what the folks watching it online and in person should expect to see and hear. The event kicks off with a keynote presented by Scott and the session...