All Things D are reporting that Facebook are currently negotiating a purchase of Microsoft’s Atlas advertising platform, as an alternative to building their own service to use on third-party sites which has already been acknowledged as a future revenue stream. Atlas is based on aQuantive technology, which Microsoft acquired and wrote off for [...]
… and turns out like an early protoype of Google Plus. Microsoft have unveiled their own social network to the general public – Socl, it’s called, taking a behaviour it hopes you’ll exhibit there, and removing the majority of the vowels, making it hip, young, popular, and cool. It’s available to try at so.cl – [...]
Microsoft have just announced ‘Surface’ (yes, they have used that name before), a Windows 8 tablet, manufactured by MS themselves. It features a 10.6″ display, kickstand – large fold-out flap, very solid looking. The solid feel continues with a magnesium body and PVD coating. It also has an integral cover, which doubles up as a [...]
Not so long ago we reported that the Consumer Preview was available, a few months, and many hours of debugging, later – Microsoft have published this latest pre-release version for us to try out. It’s obviously much more of a finished product than the Developer and Consumer Previews were – which is immediatly obvious from [...]
Microsoft has today announced the Consumer Preview of its latest Operating System, Windows 8 – although if I have to tell you what it’s called, I’m not altogether that sure how you found this site… Regardless, the download is now available for public beta in both 32-bit and 64-bit ISO files. At minimum, it requires [...]
Microsoft have confirmed earlier reports of a logo shake-up with the latest iteration of Windows, Win8. The new logo ditches the wavey windows in favour of more tiley; straighter, cleaner windows of solid colour – more reminiscent of he new Metro styling.
Microsoft have announced some new features to be found in Windows 8, ahead of the Operating Systems release. The video (after the break) explains all, but the crux of it is a nifty file transfer window, which allows you to pause, resume stop several different file movements. Most importantly – they’re all here in one [...]
If you’ve rooted your Windows Phone 7 device, you may have noticed that you no longer receive updates from Microsoft. If that’s an issue for you, and you need/want to restore this functionality, Chris Walsh has come to the rescue with his “Walshed Phone Support Tool”. The application has been tested by Chevron WP7, and [...]
Today Microsoft announced that they have bought the electronic communication company, Skype. The deal was signed last night, after being agreed on the 18th April – putting down those rumours that Facebook or Google were to buy Skype. The end to Windows Live Messenger (often incorrectly referred to as ‘MSN’) seems likely, but has been [...]
There has been a recent spate of Windows 8 screenshots and information leaking out from Redmond, so how much and what do we know so far? Well, for starters, it looks a lot like 7 – but that doesn’t necessarily mean much, because early builds of 7 looked a lot like Vista, and a lot [...]
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