January 2011
6 posts
Ask Ars: making a custom Windows USB install disk →
Welcome to the re-launch of Ask Ars, brought to you by CDW!
Re-launch, you ask? Why, yes! Ask Ars was one of the first features of the newly born Ars Technica back in 1998. Ask Ars is…
3 months on, 2 million Windows Phone 7 handsets in... →
In an interview with Bloomberg, Microsoft Senior Project Manager Greg Sullivan said that more than two million devices have now sold into the channel. The company remains silent on…
Google submits VP8 bitstream to IETF, but not as a... →
Earlier this month, Google submitted a document describing the bitstream specification for its VP8 video compression algorithm for publication by the Internet Engineering Task Force…
Italian consumer group sues Microsoft over... →
Complaining that it is too hard to get a refund for unwanted preinstalled copies of Windows, an Italian consumer group, Associazion per i diritti degli utenti e consumatori (ADUC), has
Microsoft Server and Tools president to leave this... →
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today e-mailed the entire company to announce that Bob Muglia, president of the Server and Tools Business (STB), will be leaving the company in the…
Windows on ARM official, but leaves many questions... →
So, Microsoft has made official what was rumored towards the end of last year: the next version of Windows will not only run on x86 processors, but also certain ARM ones….