Thursday, April 03, 2014

The sad realisation about Windows 8.1 Update 1

No it's, not the name. So, the newly announced, latest update to Windows 8 adds better support for people using it on a device without touch. Guess what? that's most machines running Windows. Is it any wonder that, broadly speaking, people who don't have touch input on their Windows 8 machines don't use store/metro/modern apps? You could argue that this is the age old story of Microsoft taking...

4 screens and the cloud, and things

This is what I took away from the Build day one keynote. Microsoft are really starting to acknowledge that the future of computing is truly ubiquitous. Lots of different devices used in lots of different ways and all connected to the Internet. Broadly, devices fit into two categories, those with screens and those without. Those without being those that are part of the, still not widely appreciated...