Back in January Microsoft had announced they had Sold 60 Million Windows 8 Licenses. Again keep in mind that figure is licenses not actual physical copies of Windows 8. Four-months later Microsoft has bumped that number up to 100 Million. Microsoft’s CFO and Chief Marketing Office, Tami Reller: “We recently surpassed the 100 million licenses sold mark for Windows 8. This number includes Windows licenses that ship on a new tablet or PC, as well as upgrades to Windows 8,” Reller said. “This is up from the 60 million license number we provided in January. We’ve also seen the number…
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The article is more of an opinion of the author’s experience whilst at Wal Mart with his wife and escaping into the electronics’s department. Now here’s the Microsoft killer. “Yeah, Windows 8 is one of the worst versions I have ever seen,” the Walmart salesman told the gentleman. My jaw dropped. Seriously? You have a wall of Windows 8 gadgets and you’re telling them it’s the worst version ever? It’s this type of dedication at the point-of-sale that could be hurting Windows 8 overall. Sure, there are a lot of current and potential customers who are annoyed with the whole redesign. It…
There has been on again, off again rumors that the next version of the XBox (XBox 720 or Durango) would need an always on Internet connection regardless of what the user is doing. It has been rumored that after 3-minutes of no Internet connection and failing to phone home, the console will stop everything and open a Network Troubleshooting app. Now comes an e-mail sent to employees from within Microsoft that says this is not true and also adds some speculation of additional features with this new version of the XBox. “Durango is designed to deliver the future of entertainment while…
The first Windows Phone commercial I have seen. Microsoft is holding nothing back with this Windows Phone commercial. They make fun of both Android (with the Samsung Galaxy phones) as well as Apple iPhone users. Not really sure if I want a Windows phone, last thing I want is a BSOD on my phone. Of course the BSOD was replaced in Windows 8 with a kinder, gentler “There was a problem with your computer” screen. The one thing that did bug me about Windows phones, at least the one I was playing with at a T-Mobile store a few months…
“… Gamma is far from the only such company. Governmental surveillance is a thriving market—worth about $5 billion annually, according to the Wall Street Journal. Firms such as the German Trovicor and Vupen, from France, also deal in “government grade exploits.” …” Map Source: Quartz 36 governments (including Canada’s) are now using sophisticated software to spy on their citizens This has been all over the net the last couple days. “Mozilla accuses Finfisher makers of ‘hiding’ under nameBBC News-22 hours agoThe Mozilla Foundation has accused UK software group Gamma International of falsely associating one of its products with the Firefox name.FinFisher spy kit’s…
Also has a how-to for doing it manually. ” … Switching dictionaries manually every time you write in a different language can be quite the nuisance if you have to do so several times a day.“The Thunderbird extension Automatic Dictionary Switching makes life a lot easier by remembering the selected dictionary for each contact that you have in the browser. It saves the selection that you make under spelling when you are in a compose window so that it will be remembered and automatically selected the next time you write that particular user or users a messages. … “ Source:…
” … While it is in theory an interesting concept to speed things up for the user, critics argue that it is creating unnecessary overhead and that it has privacy implications. Resources that are prefetched but not accessed are wasted for instance as they remain unused. As far as privacy is concerned, the server the information are retrieved from notices the user’s connection even if it is caused by the automated process. … …“Firefox users can disable this prefetch feature the following way: …” Source: Ghacks.net Address : Firefox prefetching: what you need to know
It looks like a Start Button, it is in the same place as the Start Button, but it is not the “real” Start Button. So, it seems the latest rumors about the upcoming Windows 8.1 aka Windows Blue is while it going to have a Start Button, this button does not bring up the Start Menu as one would expect it should. Instead it is going to simply be a way to switch between the Modern UI and Desktop modes. According to reports, the Windows 8 Start button will reside at the bottom-left of the screen just as it has…
Microsoft has a habit of bashing/bad-mouthing their competitors. However, Microsoft’s Terry Myerson took it to a new level at this week’s D: Dive Into Mobile conference. Seems Myerson slamed Apple’s iOS for being “boring” and Google’s Android for being a “mess” because there are so many versions in the wild. Really?! So many versions of Android in the wild? Umm….Terry have you looked at your company’s number of versions of Windows in the wild? Well, let’s see there is Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 … and not even taking into account the “service packs” (3 for XP, 2 for…
However, if you happen to live in Venezuela, Poland, Brazil, Portugal or Spain you can get a Firefox phone starting in June. Eleven more countries yet to be announced can get the phones by the end of the year. North America though, we will have to wait until sometime in 2014. Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs explains: Unfortunately, North Americans looking to purchase a local smartphone packed with Mozilla’s new Firefox OS won’t see them on the market until 2014. Why? Because unlike the rest of the world, Silicon Valley sees everything through high-end devices, he said. via Tom’s Hardware