Two weeks ago, we announced that we were working hard on Skype for Windows Phone 8.
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It could be that consumers are simply waiting for Windows 8 to be released.
Windows 8 Logo Microsoft has sold a staggering 700 million licenses for Windows 7.
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Description: A race condition in Safari 3 Public Beta for Windows may allow cross site scripting.
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Adobe today announced the availability of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 beta for Windows and Mac.
Back when Microsoft released Windows Vista, the dominant platform for Windows was the desktop PC.
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The question is, has a conclusive argument been made for Windows Phone for consumers?
Media Center has been around since 2002, but was greatly expanded for Windows 7.
If a third-party developer wants to write a killer-app for Windows 8, they cannot.
Developers like Facebook would be wise to come up with something for Windows 8 posthaste.
For developers, Kinect for Windows opens the door to creating new software using the gesture-control technology.
Microsoft, however, does provide an add-on tool for Windows PCs that fixes the problem.
Studies have shown that Small App developers have been reluctant to develop for Windows ecosystem.
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Logic was cancelled for Windows, so the best music software only exists on Mac.
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The news comes as the cut-off date for free mainstream support for Windows XP ends.
That's not new for Windows Phone, but it still excites us all the same.
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Tami Reller will lead business and marketing strategy for Windows including Surface and partner devices.
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"There's a long, narrow road ahead for Windows 8, " reviewer Seth Rosenblatt wrote for CNET.
That was until Microsoft announced ARM support for Windows 8 at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
At startup XP displays an icon for Windows Messenger, Microsoft's knockoff of AOL's market-leading Instant Messenger.
We should see an official announcement for Windows Phone Tango soon, possibly at MWC 2012.
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Most viruses and other malware are designed for Windows, because that's the most popular operating system.
Steven Levy (Newsweek) suggests that Google Pack helps Microsoft because it's basically a service pack for Windows.
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PDAs with the Palm OS accounted for just 18.8% of all PDAs, compared with 45.7% for Windows.
Stephen Baker, an analyst at NPD Group, said the future for Windows-based machines is looking increasingly bleak.
The changes, he added, should increase the addressable market for Windows Phone by more than four times.
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Microsoft has opened up access to some of the code for its Kinect for Windows motion-sensing device.
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He looked at the PPTP network protocol for Windows NT servers but decided it was too insecure.
Sinofsky brings out Julie Larson-Green, corporate VP for Windows, to do a demo of Windows 8.
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By contrast, Microsoft reportedly only has a few thousand apps written specifically for Windows 8 at launch.
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