By Paul Thurrott
In a new post to the suddenly bursting Building Windows 8 Blog, Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky revealed that the next Windows will natively support USB 3.0. Yes, really.
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Confirming months of rumors, an app store, much like Apple's App Store for OS X, has officially been listed among the features Microsoft is working to include in Windows 8. The revelation came last week from Microsoft President Steven Sinofsky in a Building Windows 8 blog titled "Introducing the...
In the post, Sinofsky lists the teams that are working on Windows 8, and right towards the top of the alphabetical list is “App Store.” Based on a legitimate-looking roadmap that was leaked last summer, we suspected Microsoft would eventually launch its own Windows 8 app store.
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Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 PC operating system will feature an App Store, the company has confirmed via a post on the Building Windows 8 blog, offering another possible delivery system for games. In the post, Microsoft Windows chief Steve Sinofsky lists an "App Store" team among those...
Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows Division at Microsoft, has officially confirmed (somewhat subtly) that the upcoming Windows 8 operating system will indeed have an app store. The news was mentioned via a new blog post over on MSDN, where Sinofsky listed the numerous teams which will be...
Windows chief Steven Sinofsky launched a Building Windows 8 blog today, focusing on the engineering of Window's next operating system. The blog is designed to "begin an open dialog with those of you who will be trying out the pre-release version over the coming months," he said. Windows 8 is...
Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows
In this summary of the Windows 8 revelations at D9 earlier this month, I catalog what it is that Steven Sinofsky and Julie Larson-Green really revealed about Windows 8 during the talk. Here for the first time is a rundown of the new information only. ...
Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows
In the third and concluding part of of my transcript of Steven Sinofsky's D9 appearance earlier this month, I focus on the Q & A with Sinofsky and Julie Larson-Green. ...
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Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows
In part 2 of my transcript of Steven Sinofsky's D9 appearance earlier this month, I focus on the Windows 8 demonstration featuring Julie Larson-Green. Suffice to say there was plenty more info provided by both Larson-Green and Sinofsky that never escaped...
Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows
When Microsoft corporate vice president Steven Sinofsky appeared at the D9 conference to unveil the Windows 8 Start screen earlier this month, I was transfixed. But the live blog from the event was lacking, and now that D9 has finally released the...
Windows IT Pro
Last week, Microsoft unleashed a three-prong attack in which it revealed a major overhaul of the Windows UI, coming in next year's Windows 8 release. This includes a live appearance by Windows Head Honcho Steven Sinofsky at an industry conference, a professional made video...
Windows chief Steve Sinofsky showed off the next version of the OS, which borrows heavily from ideas in Windows Phone to give a touch interface unlike any previous Microsoft experience Microsoft has showcased a version of its next operating system which highlights touch screen features optimised...
Microsoft has given a sneak preview of the successor to Windows 7, a next-generation operating system designed to work on both personal computers and touchscreen tablets.Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows Division,...
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President of Windows Steven Sinofsky demonstrates the next generation of Windows, codenamed Windows 8, at the tech confab in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
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Windows IT Pro
Appearing at an industry conference Wednesday night, Microsoft president Steve Sinofsky provided the first peek at the Windows 8 user experience, with a demo of a tiles-based UI that closely resembles that of Windows Phone. Sinofsky said that this UI could be used on iPad-like...
Microsoft's Windows President Steven Sinofsky took the stage at the D9 conference and unveiled – lo and behold – the new tablet UI. read more
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Microsoft's Windows boss Steve Sinofsky took the stage at the D9 conference to show Windows 8 for the first time. Although we've seen a lot of leaks, this is the first time Microsoft has actually explained how it will work.
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Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky at his D9 speech showed the tablet-native interface of Windows 8 for the first time. Borrowing heavily from the tile-based interface of Windows Phone 7, it can show a user's apps as well as live widget-like tiles, contacts and other data. Everything is intended to be...
Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows
Microsoft president Steven Sinofsky appeared live at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. He discussed Windows 8 in detail for the first time, focusing especially on the new tiles-based UI that will allow Windows 8-based slates to...