Tis the season to spend your money wisely. Today is Day 1 of Microsoft’s 12 Days of Deals. The Dell Venue 8 Pro is on sale for $199, a $100 savings from the regular retail price. A really good deal considering the well received mini-tablet runs full Windows 8. It gets even better though for … Read more
There is no question Dell hit a solid triple with their 8-inch Venue 8 Pro Windows 8 mini-tablet. A great value at $299 indeed. No device is without its quirks and the Venue 8 Pro is no exception. A number of users have reported a WiFi issue where it goes to sleep and doesn’t want … Read more
Windows 8 (now 8.1) is out and vastly improved from the version that landed in consumers hands a year ago. Sadly Microsoft and OEM partners face a new hurdle to getting the much improved OS offering into the hands of consumers. Go into most third-party retailers and you’ll no doubt overhear a conversation that goes … Read more
Listening to earnings calls sometimes pays off big time. Today is one such occasion as Microsoft’s CFO Peter Klein mentioned that Microsoft plans to drive Windows 8 adoption with the help of smaller devices. Remember a few days ago when an Intel executive predicted we’d see $200 Windows 8 touch devices. The best thing about … Read more
In this brave new world of the new “Device & Services” Microsoft where the company had been promising to move more quickly you don’t really expect for proof to happen so suddenly. Today in separate blog posts rank Shaw talks Blue & Steve Guggenheimer clued the world in to BUILD 2013 coming to San Francisco … Read more
I believe I posted a little while ago about Win8 on iPad and wondered then as to what the point would be of something like that. Now SplashTop has come out with the same thing on Android tablets and again I have to ask why? What’s the point of running WIn8 apps on a totally … Read more
Microsoft is gearing up to bring their mobile phone os and desktop os together using the same kernel. Yes we all expect Windows 8’s adoption by hundreds of millions of users to play a huge role in Windows Phone success. Look no further than the desktop apps displaying prominent advertising for Windows Phone apps. See … Read more