Microsoft's Blue: What will developers do?
If Microsoft brings back the Start Button and adds a boot-to-desktop option with Windows Blue, should Windows developers still be counting on Metro as their future?
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Mary Jo Foley
Mary Jo has covered the tech industry for more than 25 years for a variety of publications and Web sites, and is a frequent guest on radio, TV and podcasts, speaking about all things Microsoft-related. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).
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Reading between the Microsoft CFO lines on Windows Blue and the Start Button
Think this through: Why might Microsoft be willing to look like it's 'caving' and introduce boot-to-desktop and Start Button options?
The Microsoft number we all want to know: Windows 8 sales to date
Microsoft didn't release an updated count of Windows 8 licenses sold as part of its third quarter earnings. But here's what the company did say about Windows.
Microsoft adds alias sign-in, international domains to Outlook.com
More new features are coming to Microsoft's Outlook.com Web mail service, including support for alias sign-in, as well as for new international domain-specific email addresses.
Microsoft rolling out two-factor authentication across its product line
Microsoft is joining the two-factor authentication ranks, adding support for this security mechanism across its products and services accessible via a Microsoft Account.
Microsoft starts testing Visual Studio 2012 Update 3
The Visual Studio team is continuing with its seemingly quarterly update pace, delivering the first public test build of the next update for Visual Studio 2012.
Xamarin opens its Test Cloud beta; buys Calabash framework maker
Xamarin is inviting testers to kick the tires of its new automated-testing cloud service for mobile developers, which is based on technology from Xamarin's new acquisition -- LessPainful.
Microsoft goes head-to-head with Amazon Web Services on price, cloud VMs
Microsoft is making generally available its Linux and Windows Server virtual machines, plus its Azure Virtual Network, both of which are key to making Azure competitive with Amazon Web Services.
Microsoft's Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop
Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year.
Microsoft updates six of its own Windows 8 apps
Microsoft is updating the Windows 8 apps built by the Bing AppEx team at Microsoft.