There has been a lot of talk about Windows 8 recent, as it was announced that Windows Store will be integrated into all Microsoft products including Windows 8. However, when this was announced they accidently released that the Windows 8 beta will be available in late February 2012. Obviously Microsoft is yet to officially confirm this, but it is nearly 100% accurate.
This release date is much less consistent with a August or September release, so we are expecting Windows 8 to be officially released January 2013 (as seen with Windows Vista).
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It seems like the heavy weights of the industry are joining forces to try to gain some advertising marketshare away from Google (im not sure if 3 on 1 is fair). Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft will be offering each other’s premium non-reserved online display inventory to their respective advertising customers. This will all start in 2012 and they say the partnership is non-exclusive so it will mean they will still compete on getting agencies and the bigger contracts.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Microsoft and AOL and bring to market what we believe will be a more efficient, effective and more effortless way to access true premium inventory and formats,” says Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo! EVP of the Americas. “There has a been a significant shift in how inventory is bought and sold, and we’re now 100% focused on controlling our own destiny, working directly with marketers and agencies and driving better returns for our advertising partners.”
It has been leaked that Nokia will be launching their first Windows Phone 7 mobile phones next week. There is still no word on exactly what the devices will be called, but they will all be running Windows Mobile 7.5
We hope to have more details on the release in the coming days.
Obviously there are gamers out there that just have to have a Microsoft Kinect 360 that is Blinged to the max. Here is an Xbox Kinect 360 that has 5000 Swarovski crystals.
Microsoft has just launched the second preview for their IE10. Internet Explorer 10 is a solid upgrade from IE9, but there arent too many aesthetic changes.
IE10 supports CSS3 Positioned Floats, HTML5 Drag-drop, File Reader API, Media Query, Listeners and initial support for HTML5 Forms.
IE10 will only work on Windows 7, so you will need to upgrade if you are still running Vista or XP.
Transformers 3 is going to be one of the biggest movies in 2011. Transformers: Dark of the Moon has just released their own theme for Windows 7. The theme includes some amazing wallpapers.
Here is one of the first videos that shows off Windows 8 tablet edition. Microsoft have made it very easy to move between standard Windows and a tablet edition (which looks very much like Windows Phone 7).
