LG's Next Windows Phone Looking Good
If you have only consumed our coverage of Windows Phone in the past few weeks, you might have come to the conclusion that we live in a strictly Nokia world….
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This Week at Microsoft
It’s been quite a week in the world of Microsoft, with news coming in on a dozen fronts. We’ve had a hard time keeping it all straight, so you must…
Microsoft Taking its Stores to Canada
Microsoft’s retail store experiment is set to undergo a massive expansion in the next two years, with 75 stores new stores opening across the United States. News is out today that contains…
Microsoft's Cloud ERP Strategy
We’re going to take this in two steps. We’ll begin with what Microsoft is up to with its enterprise resource planning (ERP) products and the cloud, and then we’ll have…
Microsoft Details Windows 8 ARM app Support
Today, Microsoft announced, formally, its plan for desktop app support on ARM-based Windows 8 machines. You aren’t going to like it. According to reporting on AllThingsD, only four desktop apps…
Kinect for Windows: Not Ready for Normal use
The idea of Kinect for Windows is something that we have been bullish on here at TNW since before the hardware was officially announced. Motion and voice control, added to…
Windows 8: Not Your Idea
With the Consumer Preview (beta) of Windows 8 set to be unveiled (and likely distributed) on February 29th, talk abounds concerning the upcoming operating system. On NeoWin, a trusted source…
If Zune is Dead, Can we Move on?
I’ve spilled enough ink over whether or not Zune is dead, barely breathing, or vibrant. I’m tired of the lack of information released into the market. As a media whole…
Nokia Tablet Mockup is all Kinds of Lovely
We love a third-party mockup at TNW as much as anyone, but when someone does the leg work to doodle something that we have thinking about in the backs of…
Microsoft to hold Windows 8 Consumer Preview event in Barcelona on February 29th
This just in: we have received an invite to an event in Barcelona, Spain, on the 29th of February, which Microsoft is calling its “Windows Consumer Preview event.” We assume that…
The Apps That Windows 8's Beta Will Contain
The Windows 8 beta, to be called a ‘consumer preview,’ is right around the corner. Today, a leak to The Verge revealed what applications Microsoft plans to include pre-installed in the Windows…
Microsoft Fails to Clarify the Media Center Question
The media is in a knot this morning over a bit of back and forth confusion surrounding Windows 8, its beta (to be called a ‘consumer preview’), and the existence…
Microsoft Dodges ARM-Windows 8 Mystery
It’s been less than a week since we called on Microsoft to make plain its plans for ARM-based Windows 8 computers, in regards to whether they will be able to…
Kinect Star Wars Coming in April
Kinect Star Wars, one of the very few games that we have covered with regularity at TNW, was awarded a launch date this morning, along with a specially branded Xbox…
Microsoft's Next Store Headed to Austin
Here’s a right shocker: Microsoft’s next retail store will be located in Austin, Texas. Yes, the Austin that hosts the yearly drunken disaster nerdcon SXSW. Given the prominence of the…
