In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly, Iyaz Akhtar, Mary Jo and I discuss the Office 15 Technical Preview, Windows 8 on ARM rumors, Windows Phone 8, AWS on Windows Phone, a new round of marketing layoffs at Microsoft, and Ballmer's Facebook investment.
more This week in Windows 8: A few bland official blog posts, but some explosive news around Windows Phone 8, the Start orb, and Office 15. Plus, yes, we're writing about Windows Phone 8 in Windows 8 Secrets.
more There have been a number of reports recently that the Start Orb, or what some still think of as the Start button, has been removed from the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Beta). This change is in fact true based on what my internal sources are telling me.
more While everyone is understandably excited about the recent Windows Phone 8 leak, this revelation also tells us some things we didn't know about Windows 8. So let's look at what we've learned and speculate a bit about other features that could be coming to Windows 8 as well.
more An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including a Windows Phone 8 leak, preordering a Nokia Lumia 900, Microsoft marketing layoffs, Facebook's IPO numbers, an uproar over Google's privacy policy changes, Apple's two patent-related legal defeats this week, Android's domination of the iPhone continued in Q4 2011, and Nokia is struggling but still sells far more handsets than any other company.
more As part of its ongoing and quite targeted ad campaign against Google, Microsoft today offered up its third ad, which focuses on web browsing. The Microsoft offering here, of course, is Internet Explorer, which the company notes has a strong focus on protecting privacy. But that's just one reason to choose IE, Microsoft says in a new blog post.
more Thanks to a recent leak which has revealed some interesting information about the next major Windows Phone version, I can now publicly discuss Windows Phone 8 for the first time.
more Earlier this week, Microsoft aggressively started attacking Google for its new privacy rules, and while Google weakly responded to the attack, Microsoft isn't letting up. Today, the software giant posted a second shot across Google's bow, complete with an accompanying newspaper ad. And today's topic is email.
more ARM CEO Warren East said that ARM-based tablets and other devices based on Windows 8 were superior both to Android tablets and to Windows 8 devices that will run on Intel-type platforms.
more Microsoft announced today that its Office 365 subscription for professionals and small businesses--or what it calls Plan P--has been improved to allow users to send three times the number of email messages per day. Now, Office 365 users can send 1500 emails per day, up from the previous limit of 500.
more This week on What The Tech: Andrew and Paul discuss the situation with MegaUpload. Why did the FBI target them? Should similar services be worried? Andrew brings up recent Xbox vNext rumors. Will it do away with optical media all together? Andrew also discusses the next-gen PlayStation. Paul discusses how he thinks console gaming should evolve. Will we see more Kinect enabled devices? Andrew picks Paul’s brain about OnLive’s remote desktop service. And Jon Rubinstein leaves HP. What happens to WebOS without him? Paul compares Rubinstein to Steve Jobs. Unfavorably.
more On the eve of what promises to be a sensational patent-infringement trial that will finally pit Microsoft against one of its Android-based enemies, an International Trade Commission (ITC) judge has tossed out a major claim against the software giant.
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