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Windows 10 to arrive at the end of July. Maybe
The CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) appears to have spilled the beans on the date Windows 10 will be introduced. At last week’s conference call to discuss AMD’s rather dismal earnings,CEO Lisa Su...
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Chip sales to hit $354 billion this year
Sales of semiconductors are likely to reach $354 billion in 2015. That’s a four percent increase from last year, but growth is not as buoyant as some expected. A Garner report said suppliers are having...
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Microsoft optimistic about Windows 10 future
Software giant Microsoft appears to believe that a billion devices will be running the next version of its operating system, Windows 10. That’s according to Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s VP in charge of...
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Apple keeps the lead in PCs
There was a time when Apple was an also ran in the PC market. But a report from market research company Canalys, at the end of last week, said those days are over. Reporting on the global PC market,...
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Commercial tablets are the way to go
Although people generally are not buying tablets because they last so much longer than Windows based PCs, it’s not all gloom and doom if you make the gizmos. IDC said today that tablet sales in the...
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Microsoft will not upgrade pirates
Microsoft has denied that it will be allowing those who pirate its new Windows 10 OS to get free updates The dark satanic rumour mill had manufactured a hell on earth rumour which claimed that...
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Chromebook sales set to soar
Who needs a Windows notebook? That must be a question that is rattling Microsoft as it gears up to the introduction of Windows 10. And a report from Gartner underlines that uncomfortable fact for...
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UK government puts PCs at risk
The UK government has decided not to renew a service agreement with Microsoft for continuing support of Windows XP computers and that means thousands of machines will be vulnerable to hacking....
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Confusion reigns over Windows 10 licensing
While Microsoft has now confirmed that PC versions of Windows 10 will ship at the end of July, and versions for other machines later, there is considerable confusion in the market about how the firm...
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Microsoft pushes internet of things
In common with every man and his dog, Microsoft has made a statement of intent that it wants to be big in the much hyped internet of things (IoT). At the Computex show in Taipei today, Microsoft said...
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Toshiba gets a Cortina button
Toshiba is introducing a Cortina button into their keyboards as a convenient way to call up the Windows 10 virtual assistant. Cortina is an intelligent personal assistant which is Microsoft’s answer to...
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Microsoft to up Windows licensing fees
Notebook vendors who have the nerve to sell machines using high end hardware specs are going to have to pay Microsoft for the privilege. According to a report in Taiwanese wire Digitimes, this is not...
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Intel delays mass production of Cherry Trail
Companies that make “white box” tablets are being forced to use Bay Trail T CR for Windows 10 tablets, according to a report by Digitimes Research (DR). DR believes that Intel won’t be in a position to...
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Worldwide IT spending to fall
IT spending worldwide will amount to $3.5 trillion this year, but that’s a 5.5 percent decline compared to last year. And it’s all down to the rising US dollar. If the situation is viewed in “constant...
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World will see 2.5 billion devices ship this year
A report from Gartner said that 2.5 billion devices will ship worldwide this year. That’s 1.5 percent more than shipments in 2014. Gartner categorises these devices as including PCs, notebooks, mobile...
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Intel sees Windows as its blue eyed boy
Chip giant Intel is set to dump Android as its primary focus and instead hopes Windows tablets will make the grade in the future. Intel has spent hundreds of millions of pounds aiming to be a player in...
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PC makers despondent about Windows 10
In a day when Microsoft is to announce more job cuts in its hardware and smartphone division, it seems that the upcoming Windows 10 won’t offer light at the end of the tunnel for the software behemoth....
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PC sales plummeted in the second quarter
Only 68.4 million PC units shipped in the second quarter of this year, and that’s a 9.5 percent drop from the same quarter last year. According to figures compiled by Gartner, that’s the steepest fall...
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Windows 10 is delayed
A report said that Microsoft hasn’t been able to supply computers that have Windows 10 pre-installed and so is setting up teams to help customers make it happen if they buy a computer on July 29th...
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Microsoft forces updates on home users
Software king of the world Microsoft has had enough of people not updating their home computers. Now on Windows 10 it is forcing updates on them whether they want them or not. The company has confirmed...
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