Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Office 2011 Mac review: Outlook is positive, the rest of the applications, so-so
Microsoft Office 2008 on the Mac is horrible yet unavoidable necessity, that has had me banging my head against the wall for a long period of time. Random formatting glitches when working with complex (and sometimes quite simple) documents, irritating floating windows and the nightmare that was mail via Entourage (which still managed to handle Exchange better than the native Mail.app). Office 2011 promises to change all this. I raced…
Your Shape: Changing the shape of gaming, and your waist-line
Your Shape is part of a new generation of gaming – the Xbox Kinect generation. The aim is to free you from the shackles of traditional control pads by using the movement of your entire body as the controller. But does it work? Is an updated version of the Sony EyeToy worth a £150 outlay? We got our hands – well, our bodies – involved in the new game to…
Movement wars: the future of gaming
With the dust settling on last months E3 we thought we would look into our magic ball, and answer the main underlying question. Who will win the “movement wars.” The big three are looking to the casual market and are staking their future on new-fangled movement controls. We’re going to wade through the PR rhetoric to give you a real taste of what to expect in the coming months. All…
Microsoft Courier ‘digital journal’ rumour round-up
With the iPad lumbering over the hill to general release and hundreds of other other tablets looming on the horizon, we’ve been eagerly anticipating seeing some more details of the Microsoft Courier concept that appeared back in September on Gizmodo. This time it’s Engadget who’ve gained some information from a “trusted source”, and it bodes well for Courier becoming an actual physical product, as opposed to some abstract videos on…
HTC & LG to be first to ship WM7 phones
Many of us had written off Microsoft in the mobile phone market, but last week Microsoft unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a new operating system and a fresh approach to the mobile platform that could — for the first time in a very long time — give Apple and Google something to worry about. Gone is the infuriating menu system, the uninspiring design, the endless bugs; the…
