Windows 8 News
Microsoft is normally known for their many software assessment tools that guide you through proper installations and security compliance. Now Microsoft would like you to do a self assessment on if you have the H1N1, better known as the Swine Flu. https://h1n1.cloudapp.net was recently launched by Microsoft in partnership with Emory University. Read the rest of this entry »
Windows 7 advertisements show a well mixed demographic verify of home users claiming they created Windows 7, as they submitted ideas to Microsoft during public beta of Windows 7. Naturally the input of the home user will influence the development of Windows 8. So, we asked the members of the Windows 8 Forums: What did Windows 7 miss? According to the users at Windows 8 Forums in the Request Hall, Windows 7 just doesn’t have everything on their wishlist!
Here are a few requests for Windows 8:
Can you help improve Windows 8? Do you have any ideas for Windows 8? Microsoft would like to know!
Microsoft’s Bing search engine is looking to purchase exclusive rights from news organizations to compete with Google News. Read the rest of this entry »
(Incoming satire mockery!!)
OMG Look at my uber WINDOWS 8 ROADMAP Read the rest of this entry »
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Microsoft released new Security Compliance Toolkits today to help Microsoft customers: plan, deploy, and monitor the security baselines of computers running Windows 7 and BitLocker Drive Encryption, plus many other products. You are given a choice of preconfigured security baselines depending on if your within an enterprise or at home, once selected you apply the settings to your operating system and Microsoft applications. I hope Windows 8 will included this by default!
Here we are Live at PDC 2009 again this morning for keynote day 2! After talking to some great people yesterday at the conference and going out for drinks afterward, I just may still be a little drunk still! I do have some bad news, we may be at the wrong place too! Wrong Place?
Google just announced this morning that a special Chrome OS event will be held at its headquarters in Mountain View, CA tomorrow morning! Considering Chrome OS has Microsoft freaking out lately, there will most likely be some shocking news released! Will this keynote day 2 bring up any surprise Windows 8 News? I wish! I also wish I could make it to the Google release, but if you are interested in the Google OS news check Windows 8 Forums for updates on the Google chrome OS tomorrow! So.. PDC 2009!
What does the PDC keynote have planned for us today? Scheduled to speak: Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie, and Kurt Delbene! Steven Sinofsky is the man responsible for Windows 7 and the future and reason this site exists with Windows 8! Read the rest of this entry »
Here we are Live at PDC 2009 (The Professional Developers Conference)! Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, best known for his role in creating Lotus Notes, is scheduled to be the main presenter this morning at PDC 2009 in Los Angeles. What can we dig up about Windows 8? I see tons of wannabe journalists and some actually talented bloggers, how will we be different then all the others? We’ll bring you the dirt!!, we’ll interview the top minds at the conference in the next few days to get all the best information. Like always, members of the Windows 8 forums will get the stuff we just can’t post here, all that leaked information, we try to get all our members to say things off record and sneak them into the underground circles of Windows 8 Forums, only members can see! Read the rest of this entry »
Windows 8 is coming back old school with text to speech engines, speech recognition, voice recognition, and transcribing voice to text with conceptual designs within Windows 8 prototypes. Employees within Microsoft have been working hard at keeping the prototypes from leaking out to the public, cross your fingers that we’ll see some results soon.
Windows 8 will enhance interaction between computers and humans to a standard higher then we’ve seen in the past. Hopefully no embodied agents such as Microsoft Office’s “clippy” will ruin the experience, but Google Voice’s transcribing voicemail shows the need of these conversions from spoken-language into text archiving.
Windows 8 brings English first to the table, but languages may develop further quite quickly if English is proven successful. Windows 8 News asks Will this bring a whole new social dimension and be perceived by the average computer user in a positive light? Can Windows 8 provide a new experience, bring awareness to the actual requirements of computer equipment in almost everything we do during the day? Read the rest of this entry »