The tablet Microsoft Surface 2 has arrived and is available for sale, pre-order. Smaller, easier to use and cheaper than the first version, this tablet comes to both. This tablet will be powered by an AMD Athlon dual core 2 Ghz to 2.9 supported by a Radeon 6750 and 4GB of RAM, all housed in a touchscreen 40-inch 1080p.
This tablet that displays the weighing 40 kilos, brings many innovations such as multipoint technology: PixelSense. With infrared sensors located on the surface of the screen, to recognize what is placed on it, the screen can simultaneously support up to 50 points, plus a system of pattern recognition.
This tablet will work on Windows 7 and will cost a whopping $ 8400 $ 9049 alone and with the feet.
The Microsoft IT group said Tuesday it ceased to manufacture its Zune player, which in five years has never really found its market to compete with Apple’s iPod, and whose functions are now included on mobile phones.
“We recently announced that in the future (operating system) Windows Phone is central to our strategy, music and video, and we no longer produce Zune players,” said Microsoft has just over a page of his site dedicated to users of this camera.
This is the first time Microsoft officially confirmed the death of the Zune, the latest version was released in September 2009. In February 2010, Microsoft announced that the Zune software migrate to mobile.
The group of Redmond (Wash., northwest of the USA) continues the development of this program, and has even launched Monday in the U.S. and Canada a new formula of “Music Zune Pass” with a package $ 9.99 per month for unlimited access to 14 million songs and thousands of video streams that can be played on mobile in the Windows Phone, on computers running Windows or via the Xbox games console 360.
The Zune was launched in 2006 five years after the first iPod, had never won significant market share against the iPod.
Stopping its production comes as some speculate on a medium-term shutdown of manufacturing iPod classic (without internet), with sales bunched together for two years and whose duties are taken on mobile phones iPhone.
As noted by many users from the middle of the day, Skype has still been a failure, preventing it from connecting to the service.The company recognized early on Twitter that “a few of you may encounter problems connecting to Skype “.The company works diligently on the bug by Peter Parkes , Communications Manager on Skype social media.The problem was identified, and the situation is being resolved.
It is recommended that users let the software attempt to connect automatically. It will do when the problem will be solved.Testimonies from users on the micro-blogging site Twitter shows that many of them actually come back to connect.
If the company seems to be able to quickly correct this new episode of digital chaos, he falls very ill.Indeed, a giant failure had occurred last December to prevent the use of IP telephony software for 48 hours.And two weeks ago, the service was still down for several hours.
These problems in rehearsals, while Skype was sold to Microsoft last month to the tune of 8.5 billion, may worry the Redmond giant.
And the more stress is probably Tony Bates, CEO of Skype supposed to take the lead in the division of Microsoft that will be created specially for the software.
According to Microsoft Security Essentials, the Redmond company is proposing a virus or rather a starter solution antivirus “offline” with Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta. Who among us has not encountered at one time or another to a problem of taking up its Windows operating system, which is blocking the start of most of the time a hardware problem or system files and sometimes stubborn virus that prevents booting.
Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta wants to be an antivirus startup, the computer security firms like Symantec offer a system that can boot directly from the installation CD to do a scan mode.
Standalone System Sweeper with Beta, Microsoft proposes that we turn a disinfection tool “offline” you can burn to a CD or save to a USB key
Microsoft and Toyota have announced they will invest more than $ 8.4 million in Toyota Media Service, a subsidiary of the Japanese company that specializes in creating systems of communication systems.
These navigation systems are mainly built in the new hybrid and electric vehicles from Toyota. Based on the”cloud”of the platform from Microsoft, the company will include features called”smart”in its cars.
According to Toyota, this technology allows the driver to know precisely how much charge its battery, tire pressure and to calculate the route based on traffic and weather conditions.
Windows delivers new features excerpts from a development version of Windows 8 (its final name and exact is not yet known). The Future of Microsoft OS would have (finally) on its own PDF reader, called “Modern Reader”, instead of forcing it to install Adobe. In the way of what Apple offers since the birth of Mac OS X.
Catches of this application show a very sleek interface, directly modeled on the theme of Windows Phone Metro. Windows 8 should be proposed as an alternative to the more traditional than it is today with Aero, but less suitable for mobile media and tactile. This would provide an interface adapted to the device running Windows 8.
On the right was the index of the document and in the upper left corner, a button to return to the page that was left. This application is of type Appx explains Within Windows, which means universal software apparently capable of running on both Windows 8 (PC and shelves) on Windows Phone 8.
This ability of Windows to slip on shelves is also evident in this version of Internet Explorer which uses Modern Reader as this new interface called “Immersive” at Microsoft. It uses the Internet Explorer engine 9 for PC but with an interface provided for tactile interaction. Within Windows was running in a mode where it appears only 640×480 but it should be more comfortable in full screen, and not have these lifts. The history of page views, with its cobbled, also behaves in the manner of Windows Explorer Phone.
Windows 8 might also generalize the principle of the tape already in widespread applications included in Microsoft Office Mac 2011. Some catches show a ribbon in Windows Explorer. However its content consisted of placing icons, it smelled the development version and given the place occupied by this toolbar is not excluded that it is still managed by the final version.
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational computer company based in Redmond, Washington, with nearly 90 000 employees. The company is now the world’s largest software development. Microsoft develops, manufactures and licenses the many software products for a variety of computer systems. These are particularly suitable for small businesses. The most popular products are Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. These products have a strong position in the market, they are two totally dominant in the PC market. The company is also possessed of other markets, with assets such as the news channel MSNBC, the MSN Web portal and the multimedia encyclopedia Encarta. Other products from Microsoft consists of home entertainment products including Xbox, Xbox 360 and MSN TV.
The company was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The name Microsoft is a contraction of “micro-computer software”. In the 1980s came a variety of IBM PC clones, and Microsoft used up quickly its position to dominate the operating systems market, including private clients. The first versions of the company’s current flagship Microsoft Windows was released as a supplement for MS-DOS. Historically, it could be mentioned that Microsoft has kept the supply of consumer support in newsgroups on Usenet and World Wide Web and share with the MVP status to volunteers that are considered helpful in trying to help their clients.
The company’s dominant position has led to several investigations led by the U.S. government, including a federal investigation in 1998 that showed that Microsoft unlawfully used its dominant position to take market share from its competitors. Despite this, Microsoft has won several prices, but the company was named “1993′s most innovative American companies” by Fortune magazine Magazine.
Well Microsoft is back with a new avatar and it is trying to make it a big hit even before the release.
According to latest tests done by the Microsoft Test Manager for Internet Explorer, Mr. Jason Upton the IE 9 has fared astounding on many of the HTML5 tests but that is not holding true with many of the Geeks around the world. The tech bloggers and tech enthusiast around the world have called it as dodgy and crab.
Many believe that this was a plain reaction for Apple’s launch of its own HTML5 showcase, but the interesting thing is both have build pages which can only be visible through there own Internet browsers ( eg internet explorer.exe 9)
Microsoft’s IE 9 fiddling brings the ugly side of the war but one point to note is the open source browsers are keeping quite to see how or where the HTML5 war ends after all the driver for them is not tests but the word of mouth and loyal users.
There are also reports Microsoft believes that Chrome OS’ will be a huge flop because it does not bother about the hardware at all and focuses only on software (Remember the Chrome OS showcase which was platform independent or should I say operating System through Web browser) . What ever may be the case one thing is sure that the future of computing lies in web browsers. (May when HTML5 releases you can shutdown your computer from ie toolbar)
