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Le vendite di Windows 8

Geek   29.11.12  

ReadWrite analizza le vendite di Windows 8, il rivoluzionario sistema operativo di Microsoft, a un mese dalla sua uscita.
La sfida di Redmond tra luci e ombre.

A number of data points have surfaced that seem to confirm earlier reports that while Microsoft's own hardware is selling fairly well, third-party hardware is struggling. On the other hand, some people with existing Windows 7 hardware appear to be upgrading their PCs.

On Tuesday, newly appointed Windows chief marketing officer Tami Reller told investors at a Credit Suisse technology conference that Microsoft has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses since the company launched the new operating system 32 days earlier, on Oct. 26. For reference, Microsoft chief executive Ballmer said at the Build conference at the end of October that Microsoft had sold four million Windows 8 upgrades in just four days.

But Asus chief financial officer David Chang told The Wall Street Journal that sales of Windows 8 notebooks have struggled, and declined to release sales data. "Demand for Windows 8 is not that good right now," Chang said.

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Microsoft lancerà Windows 8 il 26 ottobre

Geek   19.07.12  

L'annuncio di Microsoft sul debutto globale dell'attesissimo nuovo sistema operativo.

Windows 8 will debut in 231 markets covering 109 languages on launch day and existing users of the ubiquitous OS can upgrade to the revamped software online for $40. According to Microsoft's website, all PCs running Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 qualify for the $39.99 upgrade with the option to add on Windows Media Center for free though the operating system's "add features" option.

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L'anteprima di OS X Mountain Lion

Geek   16.02.12  

Apple ha presentato l'anteprima per sviluppatori di Mountain Lion, la prossima major release del sistema operativo con la mela in arrivo a fine estate.
Ad appena sette mesi dall'uscita di Lion Apple accelera il passo verso la completa integrazione dei sistemi operativi mobili e desktop.

Gustosa anticipazione la beta di Messages, che va a sostituire iChat, per comunicare in assoluta libertà tra dispositivi dotati con sistemi operativi iOS o OS X.

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L'anno di Microsoft

Geek   12.01.12  

Sembra proprio che Microsoft stia facendo breccia nei cuori degli opinionisti del settore con i suoi interessanti nuovi prodotti di punta, Windows 8 e Windows Phone 7.
La suggestiva previsione di Slate.

I'll say it: I'm bullish on Microsoft in 2012. This could be the year that it shakes its malaise and takes its place alongside Apple, Google, and Amazon as a dominant innovator of the mobile age. For the first time in forever, Microsoft has a couple major products that are not merely good enough. They're just plain great. I've been effusive in my praise for Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's new mobile operating system. At the Consumer Electronics Show this week, we saw the one piece that has been missing from Microsoft's new phone effort-killer hardware. Nokia unveiled the Lumia 900, the most powerful and beautiful Windows Phone to hit the United States yet (it will be released on AT&T sometime this year). Then there's Windows 8, the spectacular desktop OS that Microsoft plans to release this year, and which will feature a new mobile-friendly touch interface that could make for the first viable Windows competitors to the iPad.

If you consider Microsoft's Xbox juggernaut, which now features not just games but lots of entertainment apps, you begin to see the outline of a strategy to win big. Here's a company with a killer mobile and desktop OS, a place in hundreds of millions of offices and living rooms around the world, a great design team, an unbeatable sales and distribution arm, and billions in cash. When you put it that way, Microsoft almost sounds as good as Apple, doesn't it?

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I prossimi dieci anni di Mac OS X

Geek   03.01.12  

Uno sguardo al futuro del sistema operativo di Apple a 10 anni dalla sua introduzione.

The future of Mac OS X and its mobile iOS sibling will harness new directions in technology: principally, computers that no longer rely on just faster GHz clocks but can take full advantage of multiple cores and multiple types of cores. Apple's advantage in mobile devices is already evident in the fact that, for example, Android devices like the latest Galaxy Nexus require 1.2 GHz, dual core processors with multiple CPU cores and twice the RAM to match the smooth graphics interface performance of the nearly three year old iPhone 3GS. Windows devices similarly require hotter chips and more RAM just to approximate the functionality of the far less expensive hardware of the iPad, a reality that has forced Microsoft to begin porting portions of its platform to run on more efficient ARM chips.

[...] Apple will also continue its efforts to simplify away complexities in the computing world such as the conventional file system, replacing it with cloud-coordinated, secured documents that update intelligently across devices without requiring manual intervention by users. The App Store, iCloud, Internet Recovery, and iTunes Match have already revolutionized how software and content is distributed and stored, increasing erasing the necessity of physical media, which will in turn allow computing devices to become increasingly mobile.

And while Apple revolutionized the computing user interface over the last decade with multitouch gestures, winning an ideological battle against devices driven by primarily by physical keyboards and buttons, Apple's Siri promises to lead a new charge in pushing voice as a natural user interface, something that's even more intuitive than mousing or tapping, and for many people, more accessible.

Although Apple began the last decade by branching out into general purpose devices with the then new iPod (something that subsequently quickly overtook the Mac in sales volumes), it closed the decade with the vast majority of its unit sales (including half of its iPods) being driven by iOS, the mobile edition of Mac OS X.

Going forward, Apple is expected to venture into new markets with its operating system and development tools, increasing its presence in the living room on HTDVs and likely pushing further into the casual gaming market the iPod touch reinvented.

This year also marks the first year of the second decade of iTunes and the iPod, the future of which will be outlined in part two.

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