Microsoft: OnLive’s Windows-on-iPad service violates license
Gaming company OnLive (see our 2010 review of their streaming games service) recently launched a service bringing a Windows 7 desktop, complete with Microsoft Office 2010, to iPad and Android tablets....
U.S. smartphones: Inching toward 1 million per week
Unless something changes fast, they're all going to be Androids and iPhones
ComScore issued its January snapshot of the U.S. mobile phone market Tuesday -- with accompanying pie chart here -- but if you want to understand what the numbers mean you should check out Horace Dediu's Wednesday morning report on Asymco.com.
Dediu seems to be the...
iPad rumor round-up: Back-from-vacation edition
What we know, what we don't know, what the gossip sites are saying today
The Wi-Fi in the Dominican Republic was as on-and-off as the hot water showers, but some news from the tech world did manage to reach us on the beach.
With Apple (AAPL) scheduled to reveal its newest iPad Wednesday at 10 a.m. PST...
Windows 8′s new way of working: Messaging, Mail, and People
Windows 8 is a very different Windows. We've already seen that it will require Windows users to learn new ways of interacting with their computers, but there's more to it than that. The...
Windows 8 Photos app brings "fast and fluid" to picture management
Windows 8 Consumer Preview's handling of photographs is a slick, centralized, and very much a tablet-like experience. The Photos app gives users fluid, near-instantaneous access to your pictures, for which the...
Week in Microsoft: Windows 8 frenzy
This week was a big one for Redmond, WA. Microsoft released a slew of new product previews from the long-awaited Windows 8 Consumer Preview to the Visual Studio 11 beta. It wasn't all roses...
Apple Stores and Microsoft Stores by the numbers
TUAW readers know from a series of posts we've run over the years that Microsoft has been opening self-branded stores throughout the U.S., usually just a stone's throw away from well-trafficked Apple Stores. Fortune's JP Mangalindan took a metaphoric...
Apple’s iPad Will Be a Better Corporate Device Than Every Windows On ARM Tablet
Many pundits have made the argument that the iPad’s days in the business and corporate world will be numbered once Microsoft releases Windows 8 and Windows on ARM (WOA) tablets later this year. The biggest rationale behind this argument is that corporate IT departments...Windows 8 Consumer Preview hits 1 million downloads
Microsoft's Windows 8 development team announced on Twitter today that it had reached 1 million downloads of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview within the first 24 hours of its release. This bodes well for the...
E-mail shines in Windows 8 with radical overhaul of mail client
The Windows 8 Consumer Preview comes with a pre-installed e-mail client for webmail and Exchange. While it's designed with the touch-friendly Metro interface in mind, it's quite usable even in traditional desktop mode, at lea......
Microsoft’s Azure service toppled by garden-variety leap-year bug
Microsoft has confirmed that Wednesday's Windows Azure outage that left some customers in the dark for more than 12 hours was the result of a software bug triggered by the...
