Tag: Microsoft
Google Plays With Cross-Platform Gaming
The rise in popularity of mobile devices can be intrinsically linked to the real birth of a casual, mobile gaming market. While individual hardware manufactures and game developers have tried to unify certain games from a specific developer or specific platform with a companion social service, the proprietary nature has historically lead to low user engagment and adoption. [...]
This Week In Android: Apr 29th-May 5th
If you were reading this yesterday, this introduction could be filled with May the 4th Be With You jokes. However, it’s a day late so we’re not going to bother with that. Instead, we’re going to shift our focus back to Android and the conclusion of a week filled with industry fan-bashing, new hardware announcements and [...]
Bring Tabs to Office 2013
Microsoft has been busy over the past few months, rolling out a lot of new updates. Windows 8 debuted in October of 2012, Office 2013, along with its companion Office 365 Home Premium, in early 2013, and numerous updates to other services as well. While both flagship products introduced many changes, some failed to address [...]
Microsoft Healthvault: Your Personal Health And Fitness Application.
I was browsing through the Windows Phone App Store the other day and was appalled to see the severe drought in the number of quality health and fitness tracking applications for my windows phone. At the end of my search, I found Microsoft’s own Personal Health Record management system Healthvault and little did I know [...]
Windows Blue Has Leaked, Part 2 – What’s New
Microsoft’s Windows 8 update, which has been code named Windows “Blue”, has been outed to the world well ahead of the company’s planned release, which is rumored for August of this year. If you feel ambitious, then you can grab a copy and see what you think of the next Windows version. In part one [...]
Windows Blue Has Leaked, Part 1 – Up and Running
If you have moved out from that home under a rock then you probably heard that the next iteration of Windows, code named Blue, leaked out to the web recently. Windows “Blue” is a code name only for now, but it is also the next Windows 8 update. The new version is not exactly the [...]
SkyDrive for Mac: Microsoft’s Cloud Storage Solution
If you were a SkyDrive user before April of last year, you probably got that free 25 GB storage bump, or if you’re an Office 365 user, you may have a chunk of storage sitting around. Even with a new SkyDrive account today, you’ll get 7 GB of free storage. Pony up $10, and you’ve [...]
Weekly Poll: Android Tablet or Microsoft Surface?
Android Tablet or Microsoft Surface? Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the pricing plans and opened pre-orders for its Surface tablet. The device had been unveiled during the summer, with an NVIDIA T30 quad-core processor, 2GBs of RAM, 32GB and 64GB storage options, a 10.6″ 1366 x 768 display, 720p rear and front cameras, a full-size [...]
Weekly Poll: Do You Plan to Try Out Windows 8?
Do You Plan to Try Out Windows 8? Microsoft isn’t usually the first company on our radar as Mac users, but with their upcoming release of Windows 8, they seem to be actually thinking different, for once. Windows 8 is easily the most dramatic change Windows has ever seen, taking it quite far away from [...]
Weekly Poll: Do You Think Metro Will Succeed?
Do you think Metro will succeed? I was talking to some friends about the impending launch of Windows 8, what it means for the tablet ecosystem and other assorted technophile topics when the topic of Metro came up. The collective gasp that the topic evoked was.. funny. Some people tend to absolutely adore it while [...]
