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The link says: "Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Adobe currently support VP8, and Safari and IE may at some point." Microsoft has already confirmed that IE9 will support VP8. See: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2010/05/1…

FTA> "As form factors shrink power efficiency and battery life will increasingly drive market success." I hope it does work out like that, because cheap Linux-only hardware will only help Linux adoption! However I still think this is incorrect. You can already get a netbook with more than one useful day's battery life, which means you can always plug it in overnight. There are people who need more but that's a fairly small niche. x86 compatibility is a much bigger deal. The percentage of netbooks sold with Linux has dropped from 100% to somewhere between 33% and 4% (sources: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2009/04/03/… and http://www.osnews.com/story/22587 ). That's still not a bad number, especially if it's closer to 33%, but it does put ARM in the position of at best trying to win a market within a market. On top of that there's a question of how much further form factors are really going to shrink. Keyboards can only get so small, and we are already seeing a trend towards _bigger_ net books - not smaller. Finally, they are comparing against the old single processor atoms, not the new dual core atoms that are already available. That still leaves ARM with a potential advantage in the tablet market, where there is a lot less space for batteries and the software stack is better concealed. But the fate of the tablet market is still in doubt.

Same with the Windows 8 logo. Without the artifacts it would look so much better. http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/02/1…

We worked with Microsoft to incorporate multi-touch gestures available in IE10 into Pulse for Web. You can read more about that partnership on the IE10 blog here: http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/08/09/with-internet-ex…

Normal consumers can't get their hands on it until October. But developers, system administrators, and OEMs can download the final bits starting later this month: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/08/0… This is so that they can be ready with applications and hardware for the official consumer launch in October.

And WP8 jetisons compatibility with WP7... http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2012/0…

Hasn't this been debunked? http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/03/18/understanding-br…

you are a piler: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/03/…

That $85 price tag is a Windows RT and Office Metro bundle. So, it's not _just_ Windows in question. I think the title should be adjusted to reflect this. Read this Windows Team blog post to see what I mean: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/04/1…

From http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2012/02/… >If you have an Android device, we also encourage you to try other apps from partners built using SkyDrive APIs. For example with Browser for SkyDrive or Cloud Explorer for SkyDrive, you can view, access and upload documents or photos on your Android phone. Portfolio for SkyDrive lets you organize and upload photos from your Android phone in batches to SkyDrive. If you want to add SkyDrive support to your app, site or device, please visit our developer center. Looks like there's OneNote and third party apps, but official support would be nice.

Ben Rudolph isn't "[s]ome generic company apologist, unrelated to the events in question" - he's one of the guys behind the Smoked By Windows Phone promotion.[1] [1] http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2012/0…

I can not understand why, in Microsoft's blog post, they posted a Quality 20% JPEG of their new logo (http://windowsteamblog.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServ… It's compressed so much that there's a slight green hue around the blue borders.

It was Windows XP that led to this, and the failed Vista OS launch that took 5 years and noone upgraded. Now in Windows Update Microsoft will force an upgrade silently in the next few months to IE9/10. http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/12/15/ie-to-start-auto…

Furthermore, apparently "future versions of IE will provide an option in the product for consumers to opt out of automatic upgrading". Source: http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/12/15/ie-to-start-auto…

Here is a more informative and graphical view of what has happened: http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/11/30/ie9-leading-mode…

Some windows live properties backends use SqlServer as well and have thousands of SQL instances running, so it does scale. http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2009/12/…

Summary of a summary of http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2011/07/…

In its first 18 months windows 7 sold about 650.000 licenses a day. According to Andy Rubin there are currently around 500.000 android activations a day. Since not all windows licenses that are sold are actually used, and the number of licenses sold is probably declining, while the number of android activations is increasing, I'd say it's fair to say that they're roughly as popular, and android will probably overtake windows some time this year. Sources: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2011/04/2… https://twitter.com/#!/Arubin/status/85660213478309888

When Microsoft shut down Windows Live Spaces they provided direct export to WordPress and strongly encouraged their user base to take advantage--is that close enough? http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/09/…

Did you see the SkyDrive features at the MS event? No. Actually neither did I. In fact it wasn't in the recent MS events. In fact it was announced with with a blog entry: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2011/06/… Why didn't MS talk about this at their special Mango VIP event? No idea. MS seems to think that getting too much attention for features is a bad thing.

Actually, the reason WinXP is 5.1 (instead of 6) and Win7 is 6.1 (instead of 7) is for "maximizing application compatibility": http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/archive/b/windowsvista/archive/2008…

From the HN guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." The submitted post is badly written, covered in ads, and includes less information than the original. (Which can be found here: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2011/03/30/a-…

"In short - there is no new functionality as we have mentioned previously beyond client-side support for RemoteFX and Dymanic Memory which are 2 new virtualization features enabled in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1." http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2011/02/2… Summary: SP1 is just a collection of hotfixes: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17855015/Hotfixes%20and%20Security%20Updates%2…

From the Windows Live Blog: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2011/02/…

Yes, because they're actually talking about Exchange ActiveSync. http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/08/… EAS is a protocol specifically for mobile phones, and Android, iPhone, Palm all support it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Exchange_ActiveSync_Clients

That article is so terribly written I couldn't get to the end. Here is the story from the source: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/09/…

Go to the Windows Phone developer blog(http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2010/07/12/wi… and read all about it. They are releasing a LOT of information on this stuff.

I dont know whether he installed the Microsoft Multi touch pack. http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windows7/archive/2009/05/27/intro… http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b152fadd-82e4…

(Author)'s basically describing WAT. So while the number might be off, the patch itself exists. http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/genuinewindows/archive/2010/02/11/win… Edit: pronoun fail.