Great news, you placeshifting fiends of the world: we've learned that Sling Media is hard at work crafting new versions of its SlingPlayer Mobile for S60, Windows Mobile Standard, and Windows Mobile Professional devices.
The Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP is an important step in giving developers and enterprises an opportunity to evaluate Windows 8 technologies for connecting specialized devices to powerful back-end software.
ENGADGET: Windows Embedded Standard 8 preview now available for download
Head over to the Windows Embedded Standard 8 download center and get started today.
ENGADGET: Windows Embedded Standard 8 preview now available for download
As part of that plan, today Microsoft is making the Windows Embedded Standard 8 community technology preview (CTP) available on the x86 architecture.
ENGADGET: Windows Embedded Standard 8 preview now available for download
Windows Embedded Standard 8 targets the specialized device world with all the native security improvements to the stack and core operating system components as Windows 8.
ENGADGET: Windows Embedded Standard 8 preview now available for download
NCs when it announced the Windows Terminal standard: this makes it easier to make cheap (and easy-to-maintain) desktop machines that simply display Windows software which is actually running on a central computer (much as mainframe terminals do).
Also, since it aligns with the new Metro app model, Windows Embedded Standard 8 will also allow developers to scale apps across types of specialized devices, customizing the interface for each type of device while maintaining their own proprietary branding and experience.
ENGADGET: Windows Embedded Standard 8 preview now available for download
With the recent release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server 8 beta, along with this week's launch of SQL Server 2012 and Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP, Microsoft is offering a good look at a new, common set of technologies that spans specialized devices, servers, PCs and applications.
ENGADGET: Windows Embedded Standard 8 preview now available for download
While Microsoft designed Windows Phone 8 to be compatible with standard Windows 8 development, the power of the average smartphone cannot compare to that of a high-end PC.
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More powerful tablets running Windows 8 Pro have more potential because they can run standard Windows programs.
In addition, while Surface doesn't run most old-style Windows apps, it includes some standard old Windows programs like the calculator, notepad and file explorer.
At the other end, on top of the colored base, are the standard Windows Phone capacitive buttons.
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The Windows Mobile 6 Standard software load is fairly typical, albeit mildly Sprint-ified with a yellow theme and shortcuts to access On Demand, Sprint TV, and the like.
The pad can be a bit finicky, too -- while it does a fantastic job of recognizing standard Windows multitouch gestures, its own three-finger swipe, used to view the next or previous page of configured buttons, fails to register unless your fingers are lined up perfectly.
On our standard Windows battery rundown test, in which we fix the display brightness and loop a video endlessly to exhaustion, the Surface Pro scored just three hours and 46 minutes, despite having a 42.5Wh battery a third larger than the 31.5Wh pack in the Surface RT.
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Surprise, surprise, Microsoft is using its new player in an effort to squeaze Real and make its own Windows Media format the standard for digital audio on the Web.
Ready to launch with Windows 8 (both standard or Pro) built-in, the Ultrabook houses a 11.6-inch touch display at the ever-popular 1, 366 x 768 resolution, although it feels a little on the thick side, and is unmistakably Panasonic in its styling.
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It is essentially incompatible with Windows 8, running no programs that run on the standard version nor any that run on Windows 7.
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Controllers have pop-up windows with various choices of standard messages for altitude changes, frequency changes and some re-routings.
Because it's a Smartphone, it'll come equipped with the Standard version of Windows Mobile 6, and we're thinking it'll be likely packing one of the most luxurious typing experiences of any WM6 Standard device on the market (which, of course, we can use to express in email and SMS our frustration to HTC about the lack of a 3G radio).
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And these developers should be allowed to do again what they did with Windows: create a new standard.
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Celebrating 25 years in business, Sonnet has pioneered and brought to market numerous innovative solutions that enhance the performance and connectivity of Macintosh, Windows, and other industry-standard computers.
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As INTC sees it, and I agree, INTC has much more to gain as it moves quickly with new processor-based SoC solutions into the tablet and smartphone markets that have heretofore been dominated by ARMH, than it is likely to lose in the standard PC markets when Windows 8 enables the use of ARMH chips.
The standard equipment furthermore includes electric windows and electrically adjustable door mirrors, a leather steering wheel, leather gear knob, the entry line radio, power steering, 9-spoke alloy wheels and a luggage compartment cover.
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Most organizations with a proper network setup in place still run Windows server, weather it be small business or standard, and are not looking to switch anytime soon.
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This means sealing air leaks around windows and doors, properly insulating attics, replacing standard light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps and giving your heating and cooling systems an annual checkup to ensure they're running properly.
The activity streams standard has already been adopted by MySpace, Windows Live, Google Buzz, BBC, Opera, TypePad, Gowalla, Gnip and many others.
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There is the standard Intel-only version that runs existing Windows desktop apps and the less versatile tablet-only Windows RT for machines that use an ARM processor.
Anyone using the handset for anything more than the built in applications, some light web browsing, and a few pictures while out and about is going to realise the HTC 8S falls far short of the standard of the HTC 8X and many other Windows Phone 8 devices.
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