Build 2.0: Microsoft's Windows 8 developer conference is on for late October in Redmond
The rumors were right: There's another Build conference. It's this October, right after Windows 8 is made generally available.
The rumors were right: There's another Build conference. It's this October, right after Windows 8 is made generally available.
Microsoft has not posted an agenda, yet version 2.0 of its cross-platform developer conference, with a heavy focus on Windows 8, has sold out.
In a recent interview, Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich noted that there's "a lot of discussion within Microsoft" about whether the company that makes Windows should also make PC hardware. It's a theme that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touched on as well in a memo that was leaked to the press a few months ago. The big problem with that strategy is that Microsoft doesn't dare upset its business model by competing directly with its hardware partners. But maybe there's a way around that problem.
Microsoft's web-focused ReMIX conference kicked off at Star City in Sydney this morning. Attendees will be able to take in the latest and greatest of Microsoft's technologies, as well as learn tricks of the tradefrom their peers.
The 2009 edition of Microsoft's premier Australian developer conference, Tech.Ed, kicked off this morning at the Gold Coast with over 2000 attendees on hand.
Microsoft's Skype division has rolled out a new Skype update that supports the new retina-display graphics in Apple's latest iPad.
The iPad-optimized version of Microsoft OneNote is out, and the Lync mobile client for the iPad, iPhone, Android and Symbian phones are coming "shortly."
Microsoft has opened registration for what's now will be a single-day Windows Phone developer summit on June 20.
The Internet Explorer 6 deathclock continues to count down, with global usage now less than 10% - and the UK clocking in at only 2.4%.
It's Microsoft MGX week. The sales rhetoric is no doubt running thick, but the usual leaked tidbits have been nothing to tweet home about.