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Its quite possible that Microsoft is just over three weeks away from moving Windows 8 to Release To Manufacturing as early as July 15. According to leaks of recent builds of the new OS, a Russian blog was quoted as stating this information just today. They also stated that Microsoft will release this information, officially […]

Microsoft’s Social Enterprise strategy begins to take shape with their announcement of the completed Yammer acquisition. Yammer, basically a start-up social networking site with only four years business under their belts has been able to get Microsoft to dump $1.2 billion dollars U.S. in cash for the deal. According to Microsoft, the current Yammer team […]

Leaving the Windows 7 users in the dust, Windows 8 will be a whole new world of end user experience. However even the current Windows Phone 7.5 user will at least be able to leverage the improved Start screen experience, which isn’t saying much in comparison the list of new features that will come with […]

Microsoft made their huge announcement, part-2, yesterday. Announcing the release of Windows Phone 8 at the Microsoft Windows Phone Summit event, in just a matter of a couple days Microsoft has completed outlining their vision for the next few years and really putting the pieces of the puzzle together for the world. It would appear […]

 Microsoft is taking a big gamble with diving into the world of developing and building their own laptop. The competition is massive and the risks are high. But the previewing development community has, at least so far, given Microsoft a big hurray! Commenting on items such as the crisp and solid feel, fluid design and […]

Everything from the new posters to the new featured devices, its all focused on what Microsoft has in store for mobility. When you walk in, make sure you have your mustache glasses on, because Microsoft’s new facial recognition software will spot you. Of course they have their new tablets on display and their updated, yet […]

The new Microsoft Surface is a sweet little, elegant tablet type device that instantly converts into a something resembling a laptop and designed to take on the Apple iPad. The new Surface tablet, like most Microsoft products, will come in several versions, Standard and Professional, with the Pro version of course, being the cream of […]

Microsoft’s launch today of the Release Preview of Windows 8 fills in many of the missing gaps from last year’s release of the Windows 8 Developer Preview back in September and thus removing much of the apprehension that many of the previewers felt. This release completes the picture of the Windows 8 Metro concept and […]

In a move to enter the social networking space, Microsoft has announced that they will purchase the social networking company, Yammer inc. for an estimated $1, 200,000,000.00. That’s a lot of zero’s just to add a little incentive to potential Microsoft Office users as their plan is to integrate the social business hub with a […]

Microsoft is scheduled to announce plans to develop their own, in-house designed tablet device as early as next week. Microsoft typically leaves the hardware announcement to the hardware makers however they appear to be taking a page right out of Apple’s playbook by designing and building their own hardware and software for the same device. […]

Excel Software announced MacA&D 4.0 for requirements management, system and software design, code generation and flexible report generation. The new software adds flowcharts, general enhancements to all diagram types and scriptable reports, advanced data flow diagram features and the ability for large projects to use multiple data dictionaries. Any diagram object within any diagram type […]

In an attempt to create a buzz and develop a community around reintegration Hyper-V, Microsoft has hired at least one full-time person to get the ball rolling. Probably not much of an effort but certainly not a nail in the coffin for Hyper-V on OpenStack. OpenStack, a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists […]