What could a Windows 8 / Windows 7 Phone derivative interface look like?
Posted by Mike Halsey in windows 8 on 17. Feb, 2010 | 1 Comment
Yesterday I wrote about how Microsoft now have an opportunity to bring all of their platforms and services together to form a seamless connectedness that would not only make life considerably simpler for millions of people, but that could also turn around the company’s fortunes.
The Zune software, on the PC and the Zune HD has [...]
What Windows 8 needs to be… Part 1
Posted by Mike Halsey in windows 8 on 02. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Everybody’s got a wish list for what they want Windows to be. As a technical beta-tester for Microsoft and the author of the Windows 7 Power Users Guide, I’ve had a great insight over the last few years into what Windows could have been, having tested features that were later dropped from betas, and I’ve [...]
Windows 8 will mark 30 years since the home computer revolution
Posted by Mike Halsey in windows 8 on 09. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Who could have imagined over even the last ten years that the PC, a business device, would be welcomed with such open arms into the home. That huge sections of our living rooms and spare bedrooms would be devoted to huge beige, then black, boxes. Windows 7 isn’t even out of the door yet, but [...]
