A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with "great hostility" just days before posting details of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows that could be used to crash PCs or gain additional access rights. Microsoft acknowledged the vulnerability late Wednesday. "We are aware of claims ...
Microsoft Bringing Xbox One’s Kinect to Windows in 2014
on 5.23.13
Microsoft has clarified that the next iteration of Kinect, the motion tracking peripheral unveiled alongside the Xbox One earlier this week, will be coming to Windows next year. We had previously known that the device would eventually be supported by Windows, but didn’t know when. Unfortunately, Microsoft is keeping quiet ...
Report: Xbox to Replace Microsoft Points With Gift Cards, Money
on 5.15.13
Microsoft is killing off its Points system that's primarily used for its Xbox console. The death of Microsoft Points has been a long time coming, and follows Microsoft's move away from the virtual currency towards cash in Windows 8. Sources familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans have revealed to The Verge that the software ...
Microsoft Confirms Windows 8.1 Will Be a Free Update This Summer
on 5.14.13
Microsoft on Tuesday announced Windows Blue will be officially called Windows 8.1. Furthermore, the new version will arrive as a free Windows 8 update via the Windows Store. The news was revealed at the JP Morgan Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in Boston, by Tami Reller, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief ...
Is Windows 8 the Next ‘New Coke’? Microsoft Says That’s Silly
on 5.12.13
Will the launch of Microsoft’s forthcoming update to Windows 8 next month be the company’s “New Coke” moment? Is its rumored plan to revive the traditional “Start” button it killed when it debuted Windows 8 a massive and humiliating reversal of course, following an ill-conceived reimagining of the company’s ...
Microsoft Confirms Windows ‘Blue’ Will be Available at the End of June
on 5.7.13
Speaking at the Wired Business Conference, Windows chief Julie Larson-Green confirmed Microsoft will ship a developer release of Windows 8.1, codenamed Blue, at the end of June. The release will be available during the company's Build conference, Larson-Green confirmed. Microsoft is expected to ship a public preview of ...
Windows 8 Passes 100 Million License Sales
on 5.7.13
After passing 60 million license sales in early January, Microsoft says it has now sold over 100 million Windows 8 licenses. The company has been rather quiet about its risky product bet recently, choosing not to disclose numbers during the recent quarter and the software's own six month anniversary, but that radio silence ...
Windows 8.1 Reportedly Updates Apps Silently
on 5.6.13
Updating apps in Windows 8.1 will apparently be a simpler process than it is in Windows 8. Users who installed the latest Windows 8.1 build, known as 9385, discovered that several apps had automatically updated themselves in the background, according to blog site Winbeta. One of the apps that took care of its own update ...
Report: MacBook Pro is the ‘Best Performing’ Windows Laptop
on 4.25.13
A report from PC services company Soluto claims the "best performing" Windows laptop is one that wasn't primarily made to be used with Windows: Apple's MacBook Pro. In creating this report, Soluto claims to have looked at 150,000 laptops, 224,144 crashes and 84,251 blue screens during three months. The result? Apple's ...
PC Manufacturers: Windows 8 is ‘Destroying’ the PC Market
on 4.18.13
With PC sales crashing and burning, it’s not surprising that several PC OEMs are still fuming about Windows 8, the operating system that has so far failed to reignite the PC industry. And now two unnamed OEM sources have told ZDNet that Microsoft and Windows 8 are primarily to blame for the accelerated decline in PC ...
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