Category Archives: windows

Exclusive: Microsoft Office for iPhone, iPad, and Android revealed

Posted on November 6, 2012 by andy dingfelder

Microsoft’s Office for iPad, iPhone, and Android is a reality. Although Office Mobile has been rumored and reportedly spotted in the wild, Microsoft has remained persistently quiet about its plans for the product. Now it sounds like the company will … Continue reading →

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Microsoft ditches Windows Messenger for Skype

Posted on November 5, 2012 by andy dingfelder

Microsoft has announced it intends to “retire” its instant message chat tool and replace it with Skype’s messaging tool. The news comes 18 months after the software giant announced it was paying $8.5bn (£5.3bn) for the communications software developer. Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Conflicting options for Windows Administrators

Posted on October 23, 2012 by andy dingfelder

It’s approximately 11 years since Windows XP was unveiled, and this week Microsoft was still at it trying to convince users that it’s time to upgrade. A post on the Windows For Your Business Blog calls on businesses to start … Continue reading →

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Microsoft CEO bonus is way down due to flat sales of windows and lack of browser choice

Posted on October 10, 2012 by andy dingfelder

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer got a lower bonus than last year’s, partly for flat sales of Windows and his failure to ensure that the company provided a choice of browser to some European customers. Ballmer, … Continue reading →

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compiling windows apps on linux

Posted on July 25, 2007 by andy dingfelder

now that we successfully used cmake to compile a linux app (in the last article), we will now try and compile it for windows. I am doing this on Gentoo linux, so your mileage may vary if you used a … Continue reading →

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Cross platform development with the Eclipse CDT

Posted on July 24, 2007 by andy dingfelder

So, you want to create an application that can un under both Linux and Windows? This is my experiment trying to do just that… Lets see if the Eclipse CDT is robust to do cross platform development! Step 1: Install … Continue reading →

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