Keep Your Tab Down by Brewing Some Recession Wine [Drinking]
You’ve brewed your own coffee liqueur, Skittles-flavored vodka, and even made edible shot glasses. What could be left in your alcohol-powered bag of tricks? It’s time to brew some homemade wine. Photo by Rein Rache.. First let’s clear the air on this experiment: you’re no Monopole, and this isn’t going to yield a vintage bottle [...]
Apple Trumpeting iPhone App Store a Gut Punch to Microsoft and Verizon?
Was Apple’s just released App Store announcement — and Steve Jobs’ remark about how difficult it will be for others to catch up — conveniently timed to preempt Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference where, according to our sibling site WMExperts, details of Windows Marketplace for Mobiles are emerging?
1.5 billion downloads, 100,000 developers, and 65,000 apps is [...]
Windows Mobile Will Open Up Its App Store To Developers Soon. Will They Bite?
Today at the 2009 Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Microsoft is expected to announce that it will soon be opening up its mobile app development program to developers from around the world in preparation for the public launch of the Windows Marketplace for Mobile platform later this year. Starting July 27, developers from 29 [...]
Windows Marketplace taking app submissions on July 27, coming to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1 later this year
Windows Mobile devs should start dotting their I’s and crossing their T’s, because Microsoft’s going to be ready to take a good, hard look at their latest and greatest apps come the 27th of this month when the company finally swings open the doors to the submission processes for inclusion in the Windows Marketplace. The [...]
Here comes Office 2010 — still waiting on that web version …
Microsoft is giving the public its first chance to try out Office 2010, the product that’s supposed to represent Office’s bold leap forward into the Internet age. As part of the “technical preview,” the software giant says tens of thousands of users will get to download and play with an early version of the product, [...]
Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps to be Free; Testing Starts Today [Microsoft]
After Microsoft’s initial announcement, the forthcoming Google-docs-like Office web apps—”Office Web”—kinda fell off the radar. Today, we get confirmation that the online suite will be free, and that Office 2010 will start semi-private testing today. With free or cheap alternatives from Google, Zoho, Apple and Adobe, Microsoft didn’t really have much a choice when it [...]
Office 2010 Debuting Today, Already on BitTorrent [Microsoft Office 2010]
Microsoft plans to unveil the web-friendly features of its Office 2010 package today at its 2009 Worldwide Partner Conference, and TechCrunch has a hands-on walkthrough of each productivity app’s features. Meanwhile, another Technical Preview build of Office 2010 has shown up in the wilds. If you’ve gotten a hands-on look at Office 2010 through developer [...]
The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010
The web has been abuzz the past few weeks with chatter about Microsoft’s announcement today at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans about the new version of Microsoft Office 2010 (also cached here). There’s even a mini-movie about its debut. Facing potential challenges from Google’s browser-based Apps products and its new Chrome OS, Microsoft [...]
Windows 7 build 7600 arrives in a torrent of RTM speculation
In a powerful wave of anticipatory man-drool, Windows 7 build 7600 has made its way to the file sharing services. What’s interesting here is that the major jump in build revisions from the current 72xx builds suggests, but does not guarantee, that 7600 is the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) build rumored for a July 13th [...]
Windows 7 Released to Manufacturing [Windows]
Microsoft is expected to officially announce the Windows 7 RTM this week at their Worldwide Partner Conference, but a few users are reporting the OS is actually available today with build 7600. Windows site TechInvaders has even gone so far as to provide those always coveted screen captures and the SETUP EXE that they say [...]
