July, 2012

The end of the road for Windows Home Server

18457Microsoft announced today its plans for Windows Server 2012, announcing four editions, and our old friend Windows Home Server did not make the cut.  The editions, Windows Server 2012 Datacenter, Standard, Essentials, and Foundation, are a much simpler set …

Will a $40 upgrade price get Windows 8 to take off?

windows-8-logoToday, our old friend Brandon LeBlanc took to the Windows Team blog to announce pricing for upgrade versions of Windows 8, and while they’re not quite in the free or $29 upgrade class of an Apple upgrade, they’re quite …

Windows Phone 7.8–more to come than just a Start Screen?

After months of speculation, Microsoft finally confirmed last week what many had suspected: current Windows Phones, even those running “Mango”, won’t be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8, which has specific hardware requirements (NFC, dual core CPUs, etc.) not found …