Top 10 Windows 8 touch apps | Reviews | CNET UK

The Windows 8 Release Preview has been available since the beginning of the month, so by now you've probably played around with it a little and started to get used to the way everything works in the new Metro environment.
As we've learnt from mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS, the OS is only half the story. For Windows 8 to be successful, it needs some great third-party apps to go with its touchscreen-friendly interface. Fortunately for Microsoft, there are already a lot of really good touchscreen titles in its Windows 8 store. Here's 10 you should definitely try out.

Top 10 Windows 8 touch apps | Reviews | CNET UK

Nokia Maps to replace Bing Maps in Windows Phone 8, report says

 Microsoft and Nokia have made it clear that their partnership extends beyond the operating system that is bundled into a device. And with the launch of Windows Phone 8, that will be apparent, according to a new report.

Nokia Maps to replace Bing Maps in Windows Phone 8, report says | Wireless Week

Ratio Interactive Launches Contest to Inspire Great Windows 8 Design

 Ratio Interactive, an award winning Digital Agency announced today that they will sponsor a contest to inspire great Windows 8 design. The contest will open following this week’s Windows 8 Virtual UX Training, a free online event hosted by Microsoft that will be held this Thursday, June 14th.

Ratio Interactive Launches Contest to Inspire Great Windows 8 Design | Virtual-Strategy Magazine

Google Chrome Browser Gets Windows 8 Metro Styling

 Google have today officially released the first test release browser for Windows 8 that is non-Microsoft. The test release is noteworthy in that it does not follow the typical Metro designs. However will fans of Chrome care?
Google Chrome Browser Gets Windows 8 Metro Styling

Microsoft providing mapping data for Apple’s new Maps app

Update: A reader sent the images above showing some of Apple’s maps are identical to Microsoft’s for certain locations.

Yesterday evidence surfaced showing that Apple was crediting TomTom, in addition to OpenStreetMap, for at least some of the data used in its new in-house Maps app. Today a report from TechPP (via TheNextWeb) pointed to proof that some of Apple’s Maps data appears to be coming from Microsoft as well:

Microsoft providing mapping data for Apple’s new Maps app | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence

Aging Microsoft Lures Young Tech Idealists

The young interns, some of the nation's best and brightest in technology, business and design, had plenty of enthusiastic words to describe their summer employer.
Fun. Cool. Special. A giant start-up. Revolutionizing the world. Facebook, perhaps? Or Twitter? Or Google?
Try Microsoft Corp : the company once derided as the "death star" of the technology business and lately thought of not so much as dangerous, but merely irrelevant, bureaucratic and dull.
"Microsoft feels cool again," said 22-year-old Gbenga Badipe, an electrical engineering student at Rice University, one of 1,500 interns spending 12 weeks at the company's leafy campus this summer. "Microsoft products touch almost every area of technology, and everything they do is starting to work together."

Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2012/06/12/feature-aging-microsoft-lures-young-tech-idealists/#ixzz1xbMNiBHy

Nokia Confirms PureView Technology for Windows Phones

Nokia has confirmed that its PureView camera technology will be headed to Windows Phones at some point in the future.
Chris Weber, Nokia’s U.S. President, confirmed the good news in an interview with Howard Chui of the popular site, Howard’s Forums. In the lengthy interview, which was first reported by WPSauce, Weber says that PureView technology will be coming to Windows Phone handsets.

Nokia Confirms PureView Technology for Windows Phones

Office365 for the Enterprise, SharePoint in the Cloud

 With broad adoption of SharePoint 2010 coupled with the business need to drive down costs and management overhead of information technology, many organizations are looking more closely at hosted versions of SharePoint — both private and public cloud offerings, as well as Office365.

 By Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet)

Office365 for the Enterprise, SharePoint in the Cloud at #TECHED2012

Microsoft Q&A: With Windows 8, the Choice Is Yours - Windows Store, iPads, javascript, internet explorer, Facebook, cio, Technology Topics | Operating Systems, Technology Topics, tablets, hardware systems, smartphones, consumer electronics, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows, operating systems, software, Microsoft,

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Shane O'Neill (CIO (US)

Xbox 360 System Update v2.0.15572.0 goes LIVE, details revealed

 Microsoft has just released a new Xbox 360 system update v2.0.15572.0. It activates new languages of Bing including Genres and Sorting. It also switch the layout of homescreen and now display avatar store linked right next to gamers avatar.  By Sehran

Xbox 360 System Update v2.0.15572.0 goes LIVE, details revealed

Windows 8 Tip: Shut Down, Restart, and Sleep

With Windows 8, Microsoft is standardizing a lot of common tasks through new system-level features such as charms, contracts, and settings. But this standardization is causing some users fits, so I’m writing up a series of tips aimed at helping you overcome some common gotcha’s. In this tip, I look at a common source of confusion in Windows 8: How you shut down, restart, or sleep the PC.
It used to be so simple. In Windows 7 and all previous Windows versions dating back to 1995, you would initiate various power management actions via the Start Menu. In Windows 8, however, that interface has been replaced by a new full-screen Start experience, called the Start screen. And those Start Menu-based power management options are no longer available there. So what’s a poor Windows user to do?
Learn how it works in Windows 8, of course.

Windows 8 Tip: Shut Down, Restart, and Sleep

Microsoft: Windows 8 is 'enterprise ready' - Windows 8, Windows, operating systems, software, Microsoft

Microsoft urged enterprises on Tuesday to adopt Windows 8, its upcoming OS for desktops, laptops and tablets which some industry experts believe faces an uphill battle for acceptance by IT professionals.

At a keynote speech at TechEd North America in Orlando, Microsoft officials outlined a series of reasons for enterprises to seriously consider upgrading to Windows 8, which is expected to be commercially available before the end of this year. About 10,000 IT pros are attending this year's conference.

However, analysts at Gartner, IDC and other IT research firms have expressed skepticism that IT departments will embark on wholesale Windows 8 upgrades, since many companies have just finished, or are in the midst of, upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows XP. 

 Juan Carlos Perez (IDG News Service)

Microsoft: Windows 8 is 'enterprise ready' - Windows 8, Windows, operating systems, software, Microsoft, TECH ED - ARN