Wednesday, April 2, 2008

AT&T Adopts Microsoft Surface for Retail (Digital Trends)

The much-crooned-over multitouch wonder is ready to move out of the lab and into a handful of AT&T's major retail stores.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Microsoft Launches New Mobility Tools (eWeek.com)

New features in the mobile OS and mobile management tools try to keep up with burgeoning demand for mobile devices and applications in the workplace.

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Google Docs pulls head out of the cloud, goes offline (Ars Technica)

Although Google Docs has been steadily gaining features since its launch, one major limitation is that it can't be accessed offline. Actually, make that "couldn't."

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Microsoft wins document format standards battle (Reuters)

Microsoft Corp has won a battle to have a key document format adopted as a global standard, improving its chances of winning government contracts and dealing a blow to supporters of a rival format.

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Friday, March 28, 2008

Microsoft's 'Albany' Project May Take Aim at Google Docs (Campus Technology)

Microsoft appears to be working on a secret project called Albany, and while no one knows for sure exactly what it is yet, clues indicate that the company is looking to develop a stronger competitor to Google's free, online-hosted Google Docs service.

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HTML 5 Support by Browser: Opera Continues to Lead the Pack (Wired.com)

The future of the web is fast approaching. The specifications for HTML 5, the successor to today's HTML 4, are still in the draft phase, but already forward-looking browsers are starting to add limited support for HTML 5 elements.

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