Category Archives: Technology News
Scrutinizing Google’s Reign
This week, those concerns — especially whether Google gives its own businesses preferred placement in search results, thwarting competition and harming consumers — will have their most public airing to date, when Google’s chairman, Eric E. Schmidt, testifies before a … Continue reading
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Tagged Federal Trade Commission, Jeremy Stoppelman, Yet Microsoft
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Only enterprise and developers can bypass Windows Store for Metro apps
Microsoft will restrict general distribution of Metro apps to the Windows Store, but grant exceptions to enterprises and developers, allowing them to side-load applications onto Windows 8 devices. While Windows 8 will be an operating system for both desktops and … Continue reading
Windows 8: what you need to know to be productive now
Roughly a million people have downloaded the Windows Developer Preview that Microsoft released publicly at the opening of its BUILD Conference last week. For Microsoft, that’s good news and bad news. That’s a tremendous amount of interest for a product … Continue reading
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Tagged Control Panel, Task Manager, Windows Developer Preview
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Will Windows 8 Take the Touchscreen PC Mainstream?
Windows 8′s touch-centric Metro interface. An awful lot of things have changed about PCs over the past few decades. One that hasn’t has been the way we input information into them. We still use the QWERTY keyboard, which was invented … Continue reading