Following Windows 7, the next versions of Microsoft Windows are supposed to start coming faster and more frequent. To get that started, Microsoft officially previewed code-named Windows 8 at the D9 Conference today. For those of us not at the conference, Julie Larson-Green kindly summarized the presentation in this announcement. You can read the full details in the … [Read more...]
Google Apps Starts Drawing The Line Closer For ‘Modern Browsers’ August 1st
Google announced today that starting August 1st it will be implementing a rolling basis for supporting the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. For this reason, soon Google Apps will only support modern browsers. Beginning August 1st, we’ll support the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and … [Read more...]
Samsung Chromebooks On Sale Today Exclusively 2 Weeks Early
Although I didn't receive a CR-48 from Google for testing out, the Google Chromebook Team e-mailed today that the Samsung Chromebook on sale June 15th was exclusively available today at Gilt, a members-only shopping site. The world's first Chromebook will be available to the public on June 15. But with this limited-access sale, you can get first dibs on the Samsung … [Read more...]
Twitter Launches More Dynamic Follow Buttons
Twitter has had embeddable Follow buttons for your website that were basically just images that take a person to the site's profile. Now Twitter has introduced more dynamic Follow buttons that can allow a visitor to start following the account's tweets with a single click. It can show the follow button, the user name, and how many followers the account has. To add a Follow … [Read more...]
Skype Installs Unwanted Add-on Software With Weekend Update
Skype, recently acquired by Microsoft and suffering some login issues, is finding when it rains, it pours as a problem with an update this weekend had a domino effect into other problems for Windows users. The update problem was disclosed by Skype on Sunday: It has come to our attention that concerns have been expressed from Skype users over the update delivered to Skype … [Read more...]