ARSTECHNICA.COM -
Yesterday, Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live Division, described the restrictions that Windows on ARM ("WOA") would impose on its desktop. The built-in Windows apps—including Explorer and Internet Explorer 10—and four Office…
ARSTECHNICA.COM -
Microsoft has started to talk in detail about Windows on ARM: what it will do, what it won't do, and how it has been put together in its latest post on its Building Windows 8 blog. The focus of the lengthy post is the work Microsoft has done to…
ARSTECHNICA.COM -
Ending months of speculation on the matter, Microsoft has revealed that Windows 8 will indeed contain a desktop—and that desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will all be pre-installed.Microsoft insists that the desktop holds…
ARSTECHNICA.COM -
Mozilla developers are planning to build a dramatically different version of Firefox for Windows 8, a change necessitated by Microsoft's use of the touch-friendly "Metro" user interface for PCs and tablets. Mozilla describes its Windows 8 plans as…
ZDNET.COM -
Microsoft is planning to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote on Windows 8 on ARM devices. But exactly what does ‘include’ mean in this case?
NEOWIN.NET -
A Twitter page that's run by someone claiming to be Windows 8's lead manager Steven Sinofsky has gotten the attention at Microsoft, which at one point said it had reported the page to Twitter. Read more...
NEOWIN.NET -
Microsoft has announced that its Hotmail service offers better spam protection than Gmail and any other email service, based on its own reports as well as a third party study. Read more...