BLORGE TECH MAC IPHONETOUCH TABLET IPAD MOBILE BUY GAMER PHOTO Windows 7 news and tutorials About Contact Privacy statement Subscribe E-mail Subscribe RSS Follow Become a fan Windows 8 fails to set world alight December 23, 2012 by Dave Parrack Windows 8 has got off to a slower than expected start , at least according to the industry people and analysts willing to talk about the initial response to Microsoft’s latest operating . system Microsoft released Windows 8 to a muted response at the end of October . Since then there have been at least 40 million Windows 8 upgrades , but many experts are now suggesting Windows 8 has been a bit of a failure to this . point The New York Times quotes Emmanuel Fromont , president of the Americas division of Acer , as saying , It’s a slow start , there’s
Now that the initial shock of “where is the Start menu” is wearing off, some of the real issues and points of interest in Windows 8 are coming to the surface (ha!), one of which is what a good Windows Store (also known as Metro) app is meant to look like. Microsoft has not been ...continue reading Fresh Paint Windows Store app: in equal parts great and frustrating
Microsoft is giving up its long effort to compete with Adobe in the design tools space. The Expression range of products is being discontinued, in favour of enhanced design capabilities in its developer-focused Visual Studio. Blend for Visual Studio continues, as a design tool for Windows Store apps and Windows Phone apps. A future edition ...continue reading Microsoft scraps Expression Web and Design, blends Blend with Visual Studio
Appcelerator and IDC have released their latest mobile developer report, in which nearly 3,000 users of the cross-platform development tool Titanium report on their views and intentions. These reports are always interesting but experience suggests that they are poor predictors. A year ago, the Q4 2011 report told us: Amazon’s new Kindle Fire ignites developer ...continue reading Mobile: Windows Phone appeal growing, iOS and Android secure say Titanium developers
One way of looking at Microsoft’s Windows 8 strategy is as an attempt to establish a new tablet platform. By welding the tablet platform to the desktop platform, Microsoft ensured that every customer who wanted the latest Windows release would also get the tablet release, though some are stuck with keyboard and mouse to control ...continue reading The Windows 8 app platform: how is it going? A few clues from developers
Xamarin has released Xamarin Mac which adds Mac support to the existing iOS and Android compilers from the company: MonoTouch: apps for iPhone and iPad using the MonoDevelop IDE on the Mac Mono for Android: apps for Android using either Visual Studio or MonoDevelop Xamarin.Mac: apps for Mac OS X using MonoDevelop on the Mac ...continue reading Xamarin brings C# to development of apps for the Mac App Store
BlackBerry 10 developers can now download the release version of the various SDKs. There are three primary SDKs: native C/C++, Cascades which includes a C++ app and user interface framework, and WebWorks for HTML5 and JavaScript. If that is not enough, there is also an Adobe AIR SDK, and a Java SDK ...continue reading RIM BlackBerry 10 SDK is now gold
A principal engineer at Nokia, Justin Angel, has written a piece showing how to hack apps on Windows 8, undermining their potential revenue for the app vendors. “This is an educational article written in the hope both developers and Microsoft can benefit from an open exchange of knowledge,” he says, adding that the article was ...continue reading Trial apps and in-app purchases easy to hack on Windows 8 says Nokia engineer
Embarcadero has released C++ Builder XE3, the first version built on the open source clang front end for the LLVM compiler. This has enabled the product to support many new features, including extensive C++ 11 support and a 64-bit compiler. While it is a shame that the old Borland C/C++ Compiler is no more, ...continue reading Embarcadero launches C++ Builder XE3: first built on Clang
, BLORGE TECH MAC IPHONETOUCH TABLET IPAD MOBILE BUY GAMER PHOTO Windows 7 news and tutorials About Contact Privacy statement Subscribe E-mail Subscribe RSS Follow Become a fan Microsoft Surface selling poorly , with the lack of availability being blamed December 6, 2012 by Dave Parrack It looks as though the Surface RT hasn’t exactly taken off in the big , bad way Microsoft was hoping it would . Is it just poor distribution and the subsequent lack of availability that’s to blame Or is there more to it than that Microsoft suggested it was looking to sell between three million and five million Surface tablets in Q4 2012. While Microsoft isn’t releasing any numbers , analysts are suggesting this figure is looking a tad optimistic . According to Detwiler Fenton via AllThingsD Microsoft is
There has been some Twitter chatter about the closure of silverlight.net, Microsoft’s official site for its lightweight .NET client platform. multimedia player and browser plug-in. I am not sure when it happened, but it is true. Silverlight.net now redirects to a page on MSDN. Some but not all of the content has been migrated ...continue reading Microsoft Silverlight: shattered into a million broken urls
Adobe is reminding developers that Flash is still around as a game development platform, with the release of a Game Developer Tools package including a Gaming SDK, the Flash C++ Compiler which translates C++ to ActionScript, Flash Professional CS6 and Flash Builder 4.7. The new thing here is the Scout profiler, previewed as Monocle, which ...continue reading Adobe launches Game Developer Tools including Scout profiler
Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 features a new approach to Adobe Flash Player updates. These are now delivered via Microsoft’s Windows Update, so you get security updates without having to suffer Adobe’s separate updater. That seems a good thing, and for security it probably is, but it seems that the price of this convenience ...continue reading Windows 8 Flash Player hassles: Windows update integration means IE users get an old version
BLORGE TECH MAC IPHONETOUCH TABLET IPAD MOBILE BUY GAMER PHOTO Windows 7 news and tutorials About Contact Privacy statement Subscribe E-mail Subscribe RSS Follow Become a fan Microsoft's latest Bing promotion could net you some Christmas cheer December 3, 2012 by Susan Wilson Microsoft has been trying to defeat Google for years now . 160 The company has tried a variety of different contests and promotions to get people to switch from Google search to Bing . 160 The latest contest is called Bing It On” . 160 Winners of the contest can look forward to a variety of Windows devices or a trip to anywhere in the . US The Bing It On challenge uses a blind” comparison test where you type in your search term and you are confronted with side by side search results . 160 Neither result is labeled so