I’ve been thinking and reading a lot today about the announcements Microsoft made at its CES keynote. I find it odd that the company showed off the Surface 2.0 at an event aimed at consumers when this technology is not planned to be sold to consumers but in fact businesses. Yes, the people who actually [...]

Microsoft have just announced, at a press conference before the main keynote, that the next version of Windows will run on the ARM “System on a Chip” (SoC) architecture found in smaller, more mobile and energy efficient devices. This will allow Windows to run on a larger range of devices and should allow Windows machines [...]

Earlier today I wrote about some of the Microsoft Research Projects that were being demoed at TechFest, Microsoft’s showcasing of its best research projects, including Mobile Surface; now there is a video of the project in action courtesy of TechFlash. The project has a long way to go before we can see it in the [...]

Windows 7 RC users First things first, if you are using Windows 7 RC you’ll have probably noticed the OS keeps shutting down every two hours, this is a not a feature but a way to move you off the OS. You really should invest in the retail version of Windows 7, although I can’t [...]

In this post I want to look at some of the trends we can expect to see over the next year from Microsoft and the wider tech world. 2010: The Year Of Touch We all know that Microsoft added Windows Touch to Windows 7 to bring touch computing mainstream and it will be this year [...]