It has been some time since the folks at Microsoft had as much buzz about something as they presently do about Windows 8. The still-unreleased touch-centric operating system feels like a potential winner. That is, unless someone does something bone stupid, like price the hardware for it way out of the range of the average […]
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer acted as the keynote speaker for the first day of CES 2012, with Ryan Seacrest as his co-host/interviewer. What an awkward combination! Thankfully, what they discussed was more interesting than that bizarre pairing. The new phones look beautiful (HTC Titan II with no specific release date, Nokia 710 and 800 in Canada […]
Welcome back to the Tablet Thursday digest! HP has surprised everyone by updating a tablet — just not the one anyone is interested in. HP is replacing their business-oriented Slate 500 with the Slate 2. Sporting the same Intel Atom chip found in most netbooks, the Slate 2 also rocks a 32 GB Solid State […]
The Microsoft Building Windows 8 blog has announced plans for Internet Explorer 10 to jettison the ability to install plug-ins or extensions, in the Metro user-interface they’re developing for it. In its Metro form, IE 10 uses HTML5 throughout, largely negating the need for Adobe Flash and other such video plug-ins. While this may amount […]
Tablet watching is turning into a really fun hobby, because there’s just so much going on. As vendors gear up for the holiday shopping season, we’re seeing this particular market segment heat up even more. Take the constantly-delayed Asus Slider, which will allegedly be here by the end of the month. The unique form factor […]
This was a pretty big week for tablets, as every company under the sun seems to be rushing to exploit the market. While it may seem like their fighting for Apple’s table scraps, there are a huge number of potential tablet users out there, and everyone seems to be trying to grab them. The most […]
We’ve come along way since HP first unveiled the TouchSmart line in 2007. Touch interfaces are no longer seen as a gimmick or something quirky, but as a killer app. Tablets and smartphones have users conditioned to want to interface with their fingers. While many manufacturers are bringing touch to their desktops for the first […]
Microsoft released its first public demonstration of Windows 8 this morning, and it looks like we’re all in for a major UI change when it’s released next year. It’s clear from the moment you see the Start Screen that the Windows Phone 7 team was involved in the new design. I say “Start Screen” because […]
