Microsoft unlocks Windows Phone 7 developers
REDMOND, Wash.–Microsoft is making a change to its policies for Windows Phone 7 that will allow applications to more easily run when the screen is turned off. Until now, applications that wanted to run when the screen was locked had to get the user’s explicit permission.
Microsoft’s server boss talks Azure and more (Q&A)
Bob Muglia, Microsoft’s president of the server and tools business, talks about upcoming additions to the Windows Azure platform to PDC attendees. (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) REDMOND, WA.–Microsoft is betting big on the cloud and wants businesses to do the same. After two years of building Windows Azure, Server and Tools President Bob Muglia said yesterday that the cloud operating system is ready for business customers of all sizes to give it a try.
Microsoft updates Internet Explorer 9 test version
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to PDC 2010 attendees about HTML5. (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) REDMOND, Wash.–Microsoft kicked off its Professional Developers Conference today, releasing an updated test version of Internet Explorer 9, the company’s effort to reassert itself in the Web browser market. “We’ve tried to make the Web feel more like native applications,” CEO Steve Ballmer said as part of a keynote speech this morning
Emulator runs DOS, Windows on an iPad
Interested in using your iPad to emulate a 20-year-old computer? No problem, if you get iDOS, a 99-cent DOS emulator currently on sale at the App Store. (Credit: CNET) So this was cool enough that I had to drop what I was doing (cleaning out my desk) to write it up