May 10, 2011 8:16 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Android,
Mac OS X,
Microsoft,
SkypeMicrosoft is buying Skype.
For the past week there have been rumors that a Skype purchase was imminent, but all of the speculation revolved around Facebook and Google as the new custodian of the VoIP calling and online communications icon. Microsoft swooped out of nowhere to announce that it has...
April 30, 2011 9:00 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Apple iPad,
BlackBerry PlayBook,
Microsoft,
Motorola Xoom,
tabletMicrosoft seems to waiver between dismissing the tablet market as a non-issue, and embracing the tablet market...when the time is right. Microsoft is taking its time jumping into the tablet fray, which I have
April 22, 2011 10:45 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
350 million,
Microsoft,
operating system,
OS,
Windows 7Microsoft announced today--exactly 18 months to the day from the official launch of Windows 7--that the flagship desktop operating system has hit a new milestone. Windows 7 has officially sold 350 million copies worldwide.
A
April 18, 2011 3:25 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
cloud,
communications,
Lync,
Microsoft,
Office 365,
productivity,
SharePointAs of today, Microsoft has expanded the Office 365 beta to the world. I have been playing with a beta release of Office 365 for a few months now, and now you can too.
I realize that many swear by Google...
April 12, 2011 12:24 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
IE10,
IE9,
Internet Explorer 10,
Microsoft,
MIX '11Yes. You read that right. At the MIX '11 conference that kicked off today in Las Vegas, Microsoft launched the initial Platform Preview for the next iteration of the Internet Explorer Web browser--IE10.
Less than a month after the official public launch of IE9, Microsoft's Dean Hamovitch
April 3, 2011 9:01 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
browsers,
FF4,
Firefox 4,
IE9,
Internet Explorer 9,
market share,
Microsoft,
Mozilla,
Windows 7,
Windows XPFirefox 4 was downloaded 7.1 million times in the first 24 hours it was available. As of right now, it has been downloaded more than 56 million times in less than two weeks.
March 27, 2011 10:24 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
copy and paste,
Microsoft,
NoDo update,
Windows Phone 7Microsoft finally unleashed the highly-anticipated NoDo update for Windows Phone 7, and with it the even more highly-anticipated copy and paste functionality the mobile...
March 26, 2011 12:39 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
IANA,
IP address,
IPv4,
IPv6,
Microsoft,
NortelThis is what the Internet has come to. Microsoft has reportedly purchased more than 650,000 IPv4 addresses from the bankrupt Nortel at a cost amounting to $11.25 per IP address. As The Register describes...
March 19, 2011 10:38 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
downloads,
Firefox,
IE8,
IE9,
Internet Explorer,
launch,
MicrosoftMicrosoft reports that Internet Explorer 9 was downloaded 2.35 million times in the first 24 hours following its official launch. That is almost 100,000...
