It’s official, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is DEAD. To be honest it’s about time. Ask any web developer and they will concur enthusiastically. Microsoft has been continually improving their browsing experience over the years yet a large amount of people continued to use the 10 year old IE6.
Microsoft has reached out to all geeks with a new app that lets you write code on your phone. The app was released last weekend and according the Microsoft they want to “bring the excitement of the first programmable personal computers to the phone.”
TouchStudio lets you write simple programs on your Windows Phone. The app still has a long way to go, but is capable of editing and running code. This release comes after talk of new development for the Windows Phone so it will be interesting to see what is next. The Research in Software Engineering group at Microsoft has been posting updates to their Facebook page. Below is a link to a video made by Microsoft researchers doing some simple programming on a phone.
Yet again we see another technology that takes us closer towards the sci-fi awesomeness of Minority Report and countless other movies. A lot of these technologies exist, the problem is that they are super expensive and difficult to manufacture. Microsoft has brought some of this technology several steps closer … Continue Reading
Microsoft has just announced that it will be launching an online PC game marketplace, which has been creativly named “Games for Windows Marketplace” 
Launching November 15, Microsoft says the Games for Windows Marketplace will offer PC gamers a “robust lineup of games” – initially launching with a set of … Continue Reading
Microsoft has unveiled 19 ways for you to jump into the action with the final launch line-up of games for Kinect for Xbox 360.
“The line-up of games we are launching along with Kinect delivers an astonishing range of experiences and entertainment which can be enjoyed by everyone,” said … Continue Reading
This holiday season, the hot item in the video gaming world won’t be a new console, or even a hot title, but a piece of hardware that will change the way you play games on the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. Will people buy into it? We shall see.… Continue Reading
Found this awesome little post on Digital Trends and had to share it!!
E6 became the dominant browser worldwide early last decade but unfortunately Microsoft took their eyes off the ball resulting in a raft of surprisingly good challengers. IE7 was OK but disappointing and IE8 moved back to … Continue Reading
They hate each other, they now love each other enough to be in talks about bringing Bing to the iPhone as the default search. I cant be the only one who thinks this is bizarre? This is like Hitler and Shimon Peres becoming mates. Remember the intense PR war … Continue Reading
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