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Over the last couple of weeks, Mozilla has finally stepped up its 64-bit testing process. There are now five slaves dedicated to building Firefox for Windows x64, which means that from Firefox 8 and onwards, you’ll be able to pick up 64-bit builds that are functionally identical to its 32-bit cousins but operating in native 64-bit CPU and memory space. When I first took 64-bit Firefox for a workout last year, it wasn’t the best of experiences: it crashed, JavaScript performance was abysmal, and it was generally sub-par compared to the stable, 32-bit branch. Today, however, Firefox 8 64-bit is stable and it’s fast it’s really, really fast. Even more importantly, though,…
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Windows Weekly 218: I Touch All My Mice
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By Thurrott, Paul In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo, Mary Jo and I discuss Lion vs. Windows 8, Windows’ surprising tablet market share, Windows Phone 7 "Mango," Nokia’s big loss, Hulu sale rumors, Lenovo’s 2011 tablets, Intel earnings and PC growth, new Microsoft mice for 2011, improvements to Hotmail, BPOS interruptions, and a last-minute look at Microsoft’s earnings. Source: Win Super Site
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Thinking About Digital Music Services
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By Thurrott, Paul With the digital music market bifurcating with the introduction of useful new services, we now have more choices than ever before, not just between the actual services themselves, but also between the types of music services we can access. If you’re a digital music lover and an avid consumer of this kind of content, it’s likely that you’ll want to use two or more of these services in tandem. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Source: Win Super Site
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What's next for Kinect? Next week, avatar meetings; Later, PC and phone integration
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Microsoft is getting more active in tweaking Kinect and Avatar Kinect to make them more attractive to business users. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft Opens Up Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive to Mobile Developers
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By Thurrott, Paul Microsoft has an interesting blog post on Inside Windows Live that explains how mobile developers can access information in Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, and SkyDrive from Windows Phone, Android, and iOS apps. This occurs through Microsoft’s Windows Live developer platform, which was recently upgraded. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft is getting more active in tweaking Kinect and Avatar Kinect to make them more attractive to business users. Source: All About Microsoft
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How Microsoft plans to sell a 'couple hundred million' more Windows 7 PCs before Wind
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Given there’s still a year (give or take) until Windows 8 launches, what is Microsoft’s game plan to keep the bottom from dropping out of the Windows PC market? Source: All About Microsoft
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Given there’s still a year (give or take) until Windows 8 launches, what is Microsoft’s game plan to keep the bottom from dropping out of the Windows PC market? Source: All About Microsoft
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WinInfo Short Takes: July 22, 2011
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By Thurrott, Paul An often irreverent look at some of this week’s other news, including Microsoft’s take on how PC sales broke down in the quarter, Microsoft’s strong showing in the tablet market, Nokia is spiraling the drain, Apple becomes number one smart phone vendor, Microsoft debuts silly Star Wars Xbox 360, Bing is picking up Windows 8 UI, Verizon steals iPhone 4 customers, Senator wants AT&T/T-Mobile deal scuttled, fake Apple Stores in China, and Google+ successes. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft is on its way to becoming a three-headed cash cow, with the Windows, Business (Office) and Server and Tools units all feeding the Redmondian beast. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft Posts Record Revenues for Quarter and Year
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By Thurrott, Paul Microsoft on Thursday announced record financial results for its latest quarterly and fiscal year, pretty much meeting analyst expectations across the board. But softness in the PC market led to a tiny slowdown in the company’s Windows business, which will no doubt impact the company’s stock price. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft is on its way to becoming a three-headed cash cow, with the Windows, Business (Office) and Server and Tools units all feeding the Redmondian beast. Source: All About Microsoft
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Report: Microsoft worldwide tablet operating-system share at 5 percent
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I hear from quite a few readers that they think Windows 7 tablets are the cat’s meow. But it looks like more people than not agree with me that those tablets are just not what the majority find palatable. Source: All About Microsoft
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Intel Beats Estimates, Offers Upbeat Predictions for Future
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By Thurrott, Paul Microprocessor giant Intel announced another blockbuster financial quarter on Wednesday with net income of $3.2 billion on a record $13.1 billion in revenues. It was the fifth straight quarter in which the firm posted record revenues and a reminder that the traditional market for PCs and servers is still running on all cylinders despite consistent, ill-informed reports to the contrary. Source: Win Super Site
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I hear from quite a few readers that they think Windows 7 tablets are the cat’s meow. But it looks like more people than not agree with me that those tablets are just not what the majority find palatable. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft delivers early build of Windows Azure toolkit for social-game developers
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Microsoft took a step to make it easier for social gamers to target Azure by releasing an alpha version of a Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft is allowing developers writing applications targeting the Windows Phone ‘Mango’ operating system update to submit their applications for approval starting in August. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft is allowing developers writing applications targeting the Windows Phone ‘Mango’ operating system update to submit their applications for approval starting in August. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft took a step to make it easier for social gamers to target Azure by releasing an alpha version of a Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games. Source: All About Microsoft
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It’s Microsoft MGX week. The sales rhetoric is no doubt running thick, but the usual leaked tidbits have been nothing to tweet home about. Source: All About Microsoft
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Lenovo Preps Android, Windows Tablets for 2011
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By Thurrott, Paul Lenovo today announced three new tablet devices that it will deliver throughout 2011, two based on Android and one on Windows 7. I was briefed about these new plans last week, so here are a few notes about each. Source: Win Super Site
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Apple Earnings Lifted by China Sales
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By Thurrott, Paul Apple announced another stunning financial quarter Tuesday, with a record quarterly net profit of $7.31 billion on record quarterly revenue of $28.57 billion. The consumer electronics giant credited its recent entry into China for pushing it over the top, but it’s equally likely that a delay in the next-generation iPhone was responsible: Apple sold a whopping 20 million iPhones in a quarter that is usually the weakest for that device. Source: Win Super Site
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It’s Microsoft MGX week. The sales rhetoric is no doubt running thick, but the usual leaked tidbits have been nothing to tweet home about. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft touch mice, Visual Studio touch tools and Win Live touch apps in the works
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One of the biggest, if not the biggest, shortcomings of Windows 7 as a tablet operating system is the fact that it is not touch-centric it is still designed first and foremost for keyboard/mouse input. Microsoft plans to remedy this with Windows 8. But that’s hardly the only touch-centric technology it has in the hopper. Last week, [...] Source: All About Microsoft
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Another Outlook-sync problem hits Microsoft BPOS users
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Users of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) suite are reporting on July 19 yet another “service disruption” — one that sounds very much like the June 22 one that affected a number of users of Microsoft’s cloud service. Source: All About Microsoft