A slip-up by a Motorola executive this week revealed that Microsoft’s next version of Windows Mobile isn’t Windows Mobile 7, but is actually Windows Mobile 6.5.
Archive for October, 2008
Oct30
Add Windows Mobile 6.5 to the Microsoft roadmap
Filed in: Microsoft
Oct30
Microsoft drops more new codenames, including another ‘Mojave’
Microsoft used this week’s Professional Developers Conference to flesh out a bunch of codenames that had been circulating for the past several months — everything from “Red Dog,” to “Geneva,” to “Zurich.” At the Los Angeles confab, the company also introduced a few brand-new codenames.
Filed in: Microsoft
Oct30
Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors
Microsoft has been hinting that even though it had no plans to make major changes to the Windows kernel, it did have a scheme up its sleeve to make Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server better suited to working on multicore/parallel systems. Now details are becoming clearer as to how Microsoft plans to do this.
Filed in: Microsoft
Oct29
Microsoft’s Live Framework: A (revised) picture is worth a thousand words
Microsoft’s Live Framework has evolved a bit since the company first unveiled it in April this year. Microsoft is now positioning the Live Framework as the development framework for all of Microsoft’s Live services, not just Live Mesh.
Filed in: Microsoft
Oct29
Ozzie responds: Is Microsoft Azure just ‘Hailstorm’ revisited?
At the Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, I’ve heard a few long-time Microsoft watchers wondering aloud whether Microsoft’s newly unveiled “Azure” isn’t simply Microsoft taking another run at “Hailstorm.” I had a chance to ask Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, that very question at the PDC.
Filed in: Microsoft
Oct28
Banking security on a USB stick (CNET)
CNET - IBM was set to unveil on Wednesday a prototype USB device designed to protect people doing online banking from having their data stolen or compromised.
Filed in: Internet
Oct28
BlackBerry Partners makes first investments (AP)
AP - Location, location, location is the theme for the first investments made by a venture capital fund set up with money from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd.
Filed in: Internet
Oct28
Yahoo lets outside developers play with its software (AFP)
AFP - Yahoo has followed through on a promise to give outside developers access to its software in order to jazz-up the website with fun, hip or functional programmes.
Filed in: Software
Oct28
LittleBigPlanet players help build video game (Reuters)
Reuters - Sony Computer Entertainment America’s “LittleBigPlanet” game, released in North America on Tuesday, lets players create characters and scenarios for the PlayStation 3, taking the Internet’s embrace of community-created sites to video games.
Filed in: Internet
Oct28
Wal-Mart to sell G1 for $30 less than T-Mobile USA (Reuters)
Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc plans to sell the G1 cell phone, powered by Google Inc , for about $30 less than T-Mobile USA, the exclusive U.S. carrier for the device.
Filed in: Mobile & Wireless
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