Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple released iOS 4.0.1, with its touted reception-signal fix for the iPhone, on July 15. The software push comes a day before Apple hosts a scheduled press conference at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters to discuss the iPhone 4. According to an on-screen window accompanying the update, iOS 4.0.1 “improves the formula to determine how many […]

Microsoft is offering cash and other resources to developers in hopes of enticing them to build applications for its upcoming Windows Phone 7, according to online reports.“We are investing heavily in the developer community by offering as many resources as we can to help them be successful on our platform,” a Microsoft spokesperson wrote to […]

Windows 7 on Tablets, Desktops and Weirder Devices by Nicholas Kolakowski Viliv S10 The Viliv S10 is meant to combine a lightweight form factor, at 2.67 pounds, with the added functionality of a convertible multitouch display. Onkyo DX1007A5 The Onkyo DX1007A5 is a dual-screen netbook that features a pair of slide-out 10.1-inch LED backlit displays, […]

Selling Office 2010 to consumers and businesses may be an uphill battle, according to the NPD Group, which said the new productivity suite is lagging behind sales of Office 2007, its predecessor, during the two-week period following launch. “According to NPD’s Weekly Tracking Service the results are mixed,” Stephen Baker, an analyst for the NPD […]

Microsoft may have used its Worldwide Partner Conference to push the cloud as the center of its corporate strategy-but as company executives described it on several occasions, Microsoft’s vision of the cloud is one where rich clients, or devices capable of functioning without connection to the Web or a server, continue to play a major […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Microsoft executives used a second day of keynotes at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference July 13 to highlight the supposed dominance of the traditional PC, as well as upcoming consumer products. Microsoft’s overarching strategy seems to center on promoting its flagship products, such as Windows 7 or the upcoming Windows Phone 7, as equally […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Microsoft is taking a page from Apple and other smartphone manufacturers, but also trying to avoid in Windows Phone 7 some of the mistakes that plagued the evolution of the iPhone. During a series of interviews at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference here, Microsoft executives suggested they had a road map for when Windows […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Microsoft is releasing its Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta, as Day Three of the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference begins here. The tools are available from this site. “The term ‘beta’ is understood to mean that things are close to finished,” Brandon Watson, Microsoft’s director of developer experience for Windows Phone 7, wrote in a […]

Microsoft is going beyond challenging Salesforce.com in court: the IT giant announced during its Worldwide Partner Conference that it will introduce a Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace, a repository of applications for Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers, in September. The platform seems designed to counter Salesforce.com’s recently announced AppExchange2, the cloud-based service provider’s enterprise-application storefront. Microsoft made the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Microsoft announced the availability of a Service Pack 1 beta for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 starting July 12, also the first day of the company’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference. The nearly weeklong WPC is a chance for Microsoft to tout the benefits of the company’s partner network, and offer those 9,500 […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Microsoft executives took the stage here July 12, on the first morning of the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), to promote a vision of the IT giant as robust despite a shaky economy and rapidly changing tech landscape. As part of that, the company announced Windows Azure Platform Appliance, a service that brings Windows […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Microsoft kicked off its annual Worldwide Partner Conference here July 12 with a high-decibel keynote address by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who promoted the cloud as the way of the future, and suggested that a family of tablet PCs running Windows 7 would appear in the coming months. Ballmer also touted the upcoming Windows […]