My new HTC 8X comes with a feature rich mobile operating system. The phone simply doesn’t feel like a smartphone, and shouldn’t be compared with Android and iOS. It is tightly connected to Microsoft services and there are very few applications in the Store that I actually want to install. Microsoft desperately need software houses to develop apps for the platform. Please think twice before buying your next phone, huge advertisement campaigns for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 […] Continue reading →
I don’t know if I like or not that Microsoft has bought Skype. I still use the program, but I’m seeing changes that I don’t like. First of all the supernodes are now not decentralized. And now in the latest beta of the program, Microsoft has implemented their Live ID (Microsoft ID). Microsoft should have taken a different approach and migrated all their current Live Messenger users over to Skype, and killed their legacy instant messenger client. Now they have their classic […] Continue reading →
Microsoft was last year granted a patent for a technology called Legal Intercept, which apparently enables Microsoft to secretly intercept, monitor and record Skype calls. But how was that possible? Skype calls are peer-to-peer (P2P) with the packets traveling across different router hops, and there should then be no way to predict exactly where the packets are going. Jennifer Caukin, Skype’s director of corporate communications answered CNET in 2008: “We have not received any […] Continue reading →
A year ago Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, said that Nokia was “standing on a burning platform” because rivals like Google’s Android mobile operating system and Apple’s iPhone were consuming the Finnish company’s market share and profits. Nokia then chose Microsoft’s Windows Phone for its main smartphone operating system. The reason for this was that the smartphone battle is now a war of ecosystems rather than just devices. So how is the third ecosystem […] Continue reading →
Windows 8 is installed on my work laptop. A Dell Latitude with touch screen, letting me get best experiences with the Metro UI. Metro is the radical new interface for touch, first introduced with Windows Phone. Windows still supports the mouse and keyboard, but I find the new Metro UI best operated with keyboard shortcuts. Here are 8 new neccessary keyboard shortcuts that’s gonna make you productive on Windows 8: Windows key – brings up the Metro start screen. You can start typing […] Continue reading →
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