Top 10 Windows 8 touch apps | Reviews | CNET UK

The Windows 8 Release Preview has been available since the beginning of the month, so by now you've probably played around with it a little and started to get used to the way everything works in the new Metro environment.
As we've learnt from mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS, the OS is only half the story. For Windows 8 to be successful, it needs some great third-party apps to go with its touchscreen-friendly interface. Fortunately for Microsoft, there are already a lot of really good touchscreen titles in its Windows 8 store. Here's 10 you should definitely try out.

Top 10 Windows 8 touch apps | Reviews | CNET UK

Nokia Maps to replace Bing Maps in Windows Phone 8, report says

 Microsoft and Nokia have made it clear that their partnership extends beyond the operating system that is bundled into a device. And with the launch of Windows Phone 8, that will be apparent, according to a new report.

Nokia Maps to replace Bing Maps in Windows Phone 8, report says | Wireless Week

Ratio Interactive Launches Contest to Inspire Great Windows 8 Design

 Ratio Interactive, an award winning Digital Agency announced today that they will sponsor a contest to inspire great Windows 8 design. The contest will open following this week’s Windows 8 Virtual UX Training, a free online event hosted by Microsoft that will be held this Thursday, June 14th.

Ratio Interactive Launches Contest to Inspire Great Windows 8 Design | Virtual-Strategy Magazine

Google Chrome Browser Gets Windows 8 Metro Styling

 Google have today officially released the first test release browser for Windows 8 that is non-Microsoft. The test release is noteworthy in that it does not follow the typical Metro designs. However will fans of Chrome care?
Google Chrome Browser Gets Windows 8 Metro Styling

Microsoft providing mapping data for Apple’s new Maps app

Update: A reader sent the images above showing some of Apple’s maps are identical to Microsoft’s for certain locations.

Yesterday evidence surfaced showing that Apple was crediting TomTom, in addition to OpenStreetMap, for at least some of the data used in its new in-house Maps app. Today a report from TechPP (via TheNextWeb) pointed to proof that some of Apple’s Maps data appears to be coming from Microsoft as well:

Microsoft providing mapping data for Apple’s new Maps app | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence

Aging Microsoft Lures Young Tech Idealists

The young interns, some of the nation's best and brightest in technology, business and design, had plenty of enthusiastic words to describe their summer employer.
Fun. Cool. Special. A giant start-up. Revolutionizing the world. Facebook, perhaps? Or Twitter? Or Google?
Try Microsoft Corp : the company once derided as the "death star" of the technology business and lately thought of not so much as dangerous, but merely irrelevant, bureaucratic and dull.
"Microsoft feels cool again," said 22-year-old Gbenga Badipe, an electrical engineering student at Rice University, one of 1,500 interns spending 12 weeks at the company's leafy campus this summer. "Microsoft products touch almost every area of technology, and everything they do is starting to work together."

Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2012/06/12/feature-aging-microsoft-lures-young-tech-idealists/#ixzz1xbMNiBHy

Nokia Confirms PureView Technology for Windows Phones

Nokia has confirmed that its PureView camera technology will be headed to Windows Phones at some point in the future.
Chris Weber, Nokia’s U.S. President, confirmed the good news in an interview with Howard Chui of the popular site, Howard’s Forums. In the lengthy interview, which was first reported by WPSauce, Weber says that PureView technology will be coming to Windows Phone handsets.

Nokia Confirms PureView Technology for Windows Phones

Office365 for the Enterprise, SharePoint in the Cloud

 With broad adoption of SharePoint 2010 coupled with the business need to drive down costs and management overhead of information technology, many organizations are looking more closely at hosted versions of SharePoint — both private and public cloud offerings, as well as Office365.

 By Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet)

Office365 for the Enterprise, SharePoint in the Cloud at #TECHED2012

Microsoft Q&A: With Windows 8, the Choice Is Yours - Windows Store, iPads, javascript, internet explorer, Facebook, cio, Technology Topics | Operating Systems, Technology Topics, tablets, hardware systems, smartphones, consumer electronics, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows, operating systems, software, Microsoft,

Microsoft Q&A: With Windows 8, the Choice Is Yours - Windows Store, iPads, javascript, internet explorer, Facebook, cio, Technology Topics | Operating Systems, Technology Topics, tablets, hardware systems, smartphones, consumer electronics, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows, operating systems, software, Microsoft, TECH ED - CIO 

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Xbox 360 System Update v2.0.15572.0 goes LIVE, details revealed

 Microsoft has just released a new Xbox 360 system update v2.0.15572.0. It activates new languages of Bing including Genres and Sorting. It also switch the layout of homescreen and now display avatar store linked right next to gamers avatar.  By Sehran

Xbox 360 System Update v2.0.15572.0 goes LIVE, details revealed

Windows 8 Tip: Shut Down, Restart, and Sleep

With Windows 8, Microsoft is standardizing a lot of common tasks through new system-level features such as charms, contracts, and settings. But this standardization is causing some users fits, so I’m writing up a series of tips aimed at helping you overcome some common gotcha’s. In this tip, I look at a common source of confusion in Windows 8: How you shut down, restart, or sleep the PC.
It used to be so simple. In Windows 7 and all previous Windows versions dating back to 1995, you would initiate various power management actions via the Start Menu. In Windows 8, however, that interface has been replaced by a new full-screen Start experience, called the Start screen. And those Start Menu-based power management options are no longer available there. So what’s a poor Windows user to do?
Learn how it works in Windows 8, of course.

Windows 8 Tip: Shut Down, Restart, and Sleep

Microsoft: Windows 8 is 'enterprise ready' - Windows 8, Windows, operating systems, software, Microsoft

Microsoft urged enterprises on Tuesday to adopt Windows 8, its upcoming OS for desktops, laptops and tablets which some industry experts believe faces an uphill battle for acceptance by IT professionals.

At a keynote speech at TechEd North America in Orlando, Microsoft officials outlined a series of reasons for enterprises to seriously consider upgrading to Windows 8, which is expected to be commercially available before the end of this year. About 10,000 IT pros are attending this year's conference.

However, analysts at Gartner, IDC and other IT research firms have expressed skepticism that IT departments will embark on wholesale Windows 8 upgrades, since many companies have just finished, or are in the midst of, upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows XP. 

 Juan Carlos Perez (IDG News Service)

Microsoft: Windows 8 is 'enterprise ready' - Windows 8, Windows, operating systems, software, Microsoft, TECH ED - ARN

Microsoft releases seven security updates

As we have seen in some of the last year's data breaches, this lowers the success rate only slightly as attackers are capable of drafting a convincing e-mail that can trick a percentage of the e-mails recipients into opening such a file.   Author: Wolfgang Kandek, CTO, Qualys.

Microsoft releases seven security updates

Can Google Apps Unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange? YES!!

In an IT environment of MacBook laptops, Windows PCs, iPhones, iPads and Droid devices, why would any enterprise stick with Microsoft Outlook for email and collaboration?
That very question prompted a 60-day pilot test at New England Biolabs, an Ipswich, Mass.-based molecular biology company. Given the growth of Macs and mobile BYOD technology at the company, as well as the need to collaborate with mobile users and international subsidiaries, the IT team decided it was time to seriously investigate Google Apps for Business as an alternative to Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server.
"Many of us, myself included, went into the process thinking this would be a no-brainer," says Ken Grady, CIO and director of IT at New England Biolabs. "We figured we'd end up moving to Google, saving a bundle of money, and everyone would be happier."

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• Why We Chose Exchange Online, Not Google Apps

"Boy, was I surprised," Grady added. As a result of its proof-of-concept testing, New England Biolabs decided to stick with its existing Outlook/Exchange Server set-up and plans to transition to a hybrid solution that adds the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 for remote and international users.


Can Google Apps Unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange? CIO.com

If Microsoft Has Its Way, The Facebook Phone Will Be Powered By Windows

 If Microsoft has its way, the long-awaited Facebook Phone will actually be a Windows Phone.
We learned this, and everything else in this post from a single source briefed on Microsoft's mobile strategy.
Though several other sources in the mobile industry described this news as plausible, logical, and even likely, none were able to fully corroborate it. So take what you read here with a grain of salt.

If Microsoft Has Its Way, The Facebook Phone Will Be Powered By Windows - Business Insider

Microsoft Turns Gestures into Commands Using Audio Waves | Gadget Users

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 It seems that the success of Microsoft’s Kinect has driven the company to branch out further into the gesture-related sciences given that one of its latest projects offers gesture control with just a computer’s speakers, a microphone and some inaudible sound waves. The project which has been dubbed SoundWave, utilizes the Doppler Effect which can apparently relate changes in sound frequency to movement and subsequently, detect gestures. whether that reminds you

Microsoft Turns Gestures into Commands Using Audio Waves | Gadget Users

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Nokia will get help from Microsoft

 Nokia will seek assistance from Microsoft.

Help from Microsoft is considered the most appropriate choice to help Nokia from the downturn. Microsoft currently have poured funds of U.S. $ 1 billion per year to help Nokia develop phones based on Windows Phone. Development of Windows-based smart phones from Nokia Phone did not go smoothly. This is evident from the lack of enthuses Nokia Lumia market.


Nokia will get help from Microsoft - Gadget Fan

Microsoft Security Advisory: Update Rollup for ActiveX Kill Bits: May 8, 2012

 General Information

Summary

Microsoft is releasing a new set of ActiveX kill bits with this advisory.
This update sets the kill bits for the following third-party software:

• Cisco Clientless VPN solution. The following Class Identifier relates to a request by Cisco to set a kill bit for an ActiveX control that is vulnerable. For more information regarding security issues in the Cisco Clientless VPN solution ActiveX control, please see the Cisco Security Advisory, Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance Clientless VPN ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. The class identifier (CLSID) for this ActiveX control is as listed in the Third-Party Kill Bits section of this advisory.

Microsoft Security Advisory: Update Rollup for ActiveX Kill Bits: May 8, 2012

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Good vs. Evil: My endless journey of curiosity: Microsoft offers $99 XBox consoles

Good vs. Evil: My endless journey of curiosity: Microsoft offers $99 XBox consoles