According to Connected Intelligence, a New York-based analytic group that studies the consumer handheld market, 44 percent of current smartphone users are considering buying a Windows Phone 7 device in the future.
Google's Android and Apple's iOS will be the dominant tablet operating systems in the market through 2015, with Microsoft's Windows 8 OS trailing at a distant third, according to the latest Gartner projections.
IT professionals wondering what x86 applications "Windows 8" will support in the near future probably will have to wait.
Microsoft described improvements in its next-generation server technology, code-named "Windows Server 8," at its Build conference for developers today.
Microsoft handed out 5,000 Windows 8 tablets to developers today during its Build conference, currently being held in Anaheim, Calif.
An eight-core AMD FX CPU achieved a Guinness World Record by hitting 8.429 GHz in an extreme overclocking test.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 09/13/2011
PC shipments for the last quarter were lower than expected, according to market researcher group IDC.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/12/2011
Worldwide access to the Internet will hit 40 percent by 2015, with the manner in which it is accessed shifting drastically, particularly in the United States.
A new version of the HTC Titan and two phones from Samsung were reveled today by AT&T as its first wave ow Windows Phone 7 "Mango" smartphones.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/12/2011
Published e-mails indicate that Hewlett-Packard Co. is planning to split its webOS business into two divisions of the company.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/06/2011
HTC showed off two devices running Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" on Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/01/2011
The role of the operating system is changing, and changing the role of IT with it.
- By Greg Shields
- 09/01/2011
Hewlett-Packard plans to manufacture more TouchPad tablets in the coming weeks despite announcing that it will end their production.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/31/2011
A leader in the PC hardware market may be leaving entirely.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/18/2011
A top executive at Motorola suggested on Tuesday that the company is open to a deal with Microsoft on Windows.
According to a recent Gartner projection, Windows 7 will be on 42 percent of all PCs at the beginning of 2012.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/10/2011
One of the Windows Phone 7 devices shown running the "Mango" release at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last week may be up for sale in Japan by late August.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/20/2011
Virtualization complicates the process of finding and remedying hardware problems, but a few techniques and tools can make the process more manageable.
Surge protectors are always a smart choice, but they do not make your computer 100 percent immune from power issues.
The Kinect software development kit (SDK) beta was released by Microsoft today, enabling developers to create Visual Basic, Windows 7 C#,and C++ applications that recognize user input through the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor device.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/16/2011