What would this do to the Windows Phone market?
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If you do like the native Windows format for media, you can use the included Windows Media Connection functionality.
If you want competition in operating systems, why not do the simple thing and break up the Windows company?
The older first and second generation Windows Phone devices, the majority of them running Windows Phone 7.5, do not have the same hardware profile as the newer devices, and because of that cannot run the Windows Phone 8 operating system.
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But they also have a lot to do with the security of Windows users.
However, as the price and availability improves, the addition of touch which makes gaming, searching the web, and many other activities easier and more fun to do, will cause the popularity of Windows 8 to go up rapidly.
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At least the touchpad seems to do a capable job of handling all the various Windows 8 gestures.
They are the people who do the testing of things like Windows and Microsoft Office.
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'Reports that poor economic conditions and the wait for Windows 8 hurt the PC industry this quarter do not tell the whole story, ' said Tom Evans, Canalys Research Analyst.
For those who do have windows that open, the Alliance has free confetti by the bale.
If New York has to do the same thing, there will be a problem: The tall windows on the Bryant Park side are much narrower.
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"What we need to do is go invest in telling the Windows Phone story to people around the world...and we haven't done that, " Mr. Myerson said.
The fact that Nokia is launching its low- to mid-range Windows Phones before Samsung or LG do the same, and before BlackBerry gets to launch its mid-range BB10 handsets later this year, should also give it a significant head start over the rivals in the emerging markets.
Microsoft has also admitted to a range of other slips with the launch of Windows 8, including failing to do enough to train retail staff and educate potential customers about the new software, as well as not focusing all of its financial incentives behind the touchscreen PCs that show off Windows 8 to best advantage.
As convenient as that is, though, you can only do it on the main page of the Windows Store.
What surprised me about this morning's keynote was that Mr Elop also unveiled four devices that had nothing to do with Windows, phones aimed at the developing world.
Certainly Microsoft App-V, VMware ThinApp and Citrix XenApp app streaming cannot do this (XenApp Remote Desktop Services can do this but this requires Windows in the Data Center and so in that respect is no different to VDI).
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In other words, while you can install an app like Photoshop on a full Windows 8 machine, you can't do it here, nor any other Windows application written since the dawn of the OS. Additionally, we have our doubts about whether anyone going forward will bother to write desktop apps versus those more optimized for running in the de facto Live Tile interface.
CIOs are going to think twice: Do they want another architecture in terms of the operating system, or do they want to bring in a Windows machine so that all their legacy and security apps run?
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Perfectly positioned to do what Windows 8 dreamed of, perhaps the devices can can be what consumers wanted a next generation PC.
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The Windows phone platform could certainly do with that sort of boost -- so far, sales haven't exactly set the world alight.
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But even if they do that some of the protection it bestows on Windows 7 and Vista users will not be available.
Please, if you are in any way shape or form a gamer, avoid making the mistake I did and do not buy Windows 8 yet.
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Mr. DURANI: We do want these channels to be windows for the rest of America into these fascinating cultures, and we're working towards that, you know, very deliberately to make these channels accessible to whoever is interested in these cultures.
Even if you buy one of the rare touch-screen laptops now, Microsoft says it will likely work with the touch features of Windows 8, but it may not be optimized to do a great job with the new software.
'Course, it'll still take some arm twisting to get the low-end crowd to try anything not labeled "Windows, " but if anyone can do it, it's the company that inexplicably kept Gmail in "beta" for over five years.
Google is determined not to let Microsoft do the same to it by building Internet search into Windows.
What do they think when they see that through the bus windows on their way to the next gavage of geese?
Like, once when they were pitching Toyota they transformed their agency reception area into a Toyota showroom and to do this, they had to remove the front office windows, so that a crane could actually lift the car .
The 64 bit architecture has been around for a while but the need to utilize and improve it was when more browsers and applications such as games and work related applications needed more ram. 3 Gigs became not enough and expanding more ram to the home user allowed Windows pcs to do more and not be bogged down.
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