News tagged ‘microsoft’
Thursday, 12 Apr 2012
Microsoft Sets Kill Date For Windows XP and Office 2003
Microsoft has warned consumers and businesses that they will soon need to upgrade their Windows XP systems or face the consequences of running an unsupported OS.
Tuesday, 10 Apr 2012
Australian Composer/Developer Uses Kinect to Play 83-Year-Old Organ
Think Microsoft's Kinect is all about motion-sensing games? You'll have to re-evaluate what you know about Kinect, when you hear (and see) what Australian composer and developer Chris Vik did with it using Kinectar, a toolkit that uses the Kinect sensor as a MIDI controller.
Thursday, 29 Mar 2012
Qualcomm Deepens Collaboration with Singapore
Qualcomm today announced its plans to establish an integrated circuit (IC) design and engineering R&D Center in Singapore. In addition, it is working with a local school and Microsoft on the WE Learn mobile education project, which uses 3G smartphones to build a 21st century classroom experience.
Wednesday, 28 Mar 2012
Microsoft to Release Kinect for Windows Version 1.5 in May
Offering Windows users a different interactive experience via the Kinect, Kinect for Windows will see an upgrade, version 1.5, at the end of May.
Tuesday, 27 Mar 2012
Rumored Release Schedule for Windows 8
Rumors about the release date for the final version of Microsoft's Windows 8 have started making their rounds on the Internet.
Microsoft Apologizes to Winner of "Smoked by Windows Phone" Campaign
Microsoft apologized to the winner of its "Smoked by Windows Phone" campaign after suffering backlash for denying him his victory and rewards.
Thursday, 22 Mar 2012
Microsoft to Debut Windows 8 This October
Sources say that the PCs and tablets running on the OS will go on sale around October and these devices in the initial rollout will include INTC and ARM chips.
Wednesday, 21 Mar 2012
Nokia Lumia Phones Get Update for Nokia Drive
As promised during Mobile World Congress 2012, Nokia has pushed a series of updates for its Nokia Maps, Drive and Transport apps to its Lumia range of Windows Phone.
Tuesday, 13 Mar 2012
NVIDIA Begins Regular Windows 8 Driver Updates
NVIDIA has released their first driver update for NVIDIA GeForce and Quadro GPUs, signalling the start of regular NVIDIA driver updates for Windows 8.
Friday, 2 Mar 2012
Windows 8 Consumer Preview Being Gobbled Up Like Hotcakes
In just about a day, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview has racked up one million downloads. Will this new operating system live up to the hype surrounding it?