Excerpts from an upcoming biography of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson are popping up all over the Web, and one of the more interesting tidbits sheds light on Apple's contempt for Android. It might also explain why Apple has been so aggressive in suing competitors entrenched in the Android ecosystem, a platform Jobs vowed to destroy at all costs.
It's been somewhat of a banner year so far for Microsoft, at least in terms of revenue. Driven by solid business and consumer demand, Microsoft announced record first quarter revenue of $17.37 billion for its first fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2011, representing a 7 percent increase from one year prior. It's also higher than what Wall Street was expecting.
Google and Samsung got all chummy with each other at an event in Hong Kong late Wednesday and jointly announced the Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first in the world to run Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich as it's more deliciously known. Samsung's phone does the Nexus brand justice with a 4.65-inch Super AMOLED display at 720p and a peppy 1.2GHz dual-core processor.
The Windows engineering team continues to detail changes in Windows 8 one blog post at a time. The latest Building Windows 8 blog post once again turns the spotlight on the Start screen, which has already attracted a “ton of [critical] interest” from users. If the previous posts focused on the evolution and design of the Start screen in the upcoming operating system, the latest delves into the design of the Start screen’s integrated search feature.
Amazon did more than just throw down the gauntlet when it announced its $200 Kindle Fire tablet, the e-tailer may have also scared off some of the competition altogether. Oddly enough, the Kindle Fire might actually help Microsoft increase its presence in the mobile market, as OEMs look to Windows 8-based slates in order to avoid a price war among Android tablets.
At long last, the next major version of Ubuntu is all polished up and ready to strut around in front a public audience. Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" brings a bevy of changes to Canonical's popular open source Linux operating system, most notably to the Unity shell. Unless you've been playing with a beta build, Oneiric Ocelot is Ubuntu like you've never seen it before.
We knew Microsoft was making money off of Google's Android platform, we just didn't realize how much. Thanks to lucrative patent licenses, the Redmond software maker is expected to rake in a cool $444 million in revenue for its fiscal year 2012 ended June 30, 2012. Not a bad score for piggybacking Android sales, but is it worth playing second fiddle to your competitor?
It wasn't all that long ago that MeeGo held a lot of promise, only to end up pushed aside in favor of other mobile platforms. The biggest gut punch came when Nokia ditched Linux to focus on Windows Phone 7. Even still, the OS wasn't quite dead so long as Intel stayed in its corner. Go ahead and call the pall bearers, MeeGo is being put out to pasture while Tizen takes its place.
I’m writing this right now using Microsoft Word on the recently released Windows 8 Developer’s Build. I’m using a real PC, not a tablet, and it’s a system any Maximum PC user would be proud of: a Core i7 990X system running 12 GB of RAM plus an eVGA GeForce GTX 580SC. The system also has a pair of 1080p monitors attached. The goal was to live with the OS for a few days as my primary operating system and see just how usable it is in its current state.
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