Windows 8.1 RTM leaks to Internet
Windows 8.1's RTM, which Microsoft announced only on Tuesday, has already leaked to file-sharing sites online.
Windows 8.1's RTM, which Microsoft announced only on Tuesday, has already leaked to file-sharing sites online.
Windows app developers today took Microsoft to task for the company's decision to withhold Windows 8.1 until mid-October.
Microsoft today declared Windows 8.1 ready for computer and tablet makers, saying the update had reached its RTM, or "release to manufacturing" milestone.
An outsourced project to modernize Orange County, Calif.'s tax collection system that was supposed to take three years and cost just over $8 million was on track to cost twice that amount and take twice as long when officials pulled the plug.
Microsoft today refused to clarify conflicting statements by its PR representatives about whether developers and enterprise customers will get the Windows 8.1 update weeks before the public, as is customary.
Expanding a growing portfolio of enterprise software it sells as hosted services, Microsoft plans to add Java to its Windows Azure cloud service.
Microsoft yesterday took another stab at boosting interest in creating apps for Windows 8 with an awards program that will hand out Xbox games and other prizes to amateur programmers.
Samsung is the largest maker of Android smartphones, which make up up 70% of the overall worldwide smartphone market. Now the company's dependence on Android seems poised to start shifting to the open source Tizen OS.
Apple on Sunday admitted that its developer website, which has been offline since Thursday, had been hacked and sSome information may have been stolen.
The combined value of paid apps, app-enabled purchases of goods and services and in-app advertising is expected to double to $US151 billion in the US by 2017, AppNation said.
The U.S. may be the global center of the IT universe, but India will exceed the U.S. in the number of software developers by 2017, a new report notes.
Google on Monday expanded on its strategy to turn any connected device into an ersatz Chromebook by adding access to several services, including Google Wallet, and baked-in hardware, like Bluetooth, to super-apps that run in its Chrome browser.
Users from Germany and Hong Kong offered real-world experience in deploying data mapping apps at the Esri International User Conference in San Diego.
As the government cuts its own employment, federal agencies are trying to stimulate job creation by making vast amounts of government data freely available.
Opera Software on Monday released a final version of Opera 15, the first of its desktop browsers to rely on the open-source Chromium engine.