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If Windows 8 just isn’t getting you excited, you won’t have long to wait before you can get an early look at the next personal of the PC operating system. A preview version dubbed Windows Blue will be unveiled at Microsoft’s BUILD conference in San Francisco next month. The news came from...

Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that the next big update to Windows, codenamed Windows Blue, will be available to users in June in the form of a preview. Speaking at the Wired Business Conference, Julie Larson-Green, head of Windows engineering, said that...

Now we know why Windows co-chief Tami Reller spent so much time talking about the impending Windows Blue update recently. Julie Larson-Green, the other Windows co-chief, took to the podium at the Wired Business Conference today to confirm that a developer preview of Windows 8.1—a.k.a. Windows...

On the fence about heading to Build? Microsoft's annual conference is scheduled from June 26th to the 28th, and developers in attendance will likely hear quite a bit more about the latest version of Windows 8. MS will also make a public preview available during the event, Julie Larson-Green shared...

We've just posted a gallery of real-world samples from the MX-1 - Pentax's flagship compact camera. Announced earlier this year the MX-1 offers a 12MP backlit CMOS sensor, and a fast F1.8-2.5 lens which spans an equivalent focal range of 28-112mm. We wrote a detailed hands-on preview back in...

T-Mobile on Thursday gave iPhone users on its network a new means of accessing on-demand and live video content with the debut of the T-Mobile TV app in Apple's App Store.

Windows 7 users have been able to sneak a peek at Skype's new Video Messaging feature since earlier in the week , but now the referenced Windows 8 version is available as well. The new tool, the service's version of video voicemail, is still "in its early release," so you may run into a bug or two....

Apple has shifted engineers from work on OS X 10.9 to double-down on iOS 7 development, leaks suggest, juggling staff so as to ensure the new iPhone and iPad platform is ready in time for WWDC 2013. The significant refresh of iOS – which is believed to see a “flattening” of the interface, away from...

The folks at Apple are scrambling to finish iOS 7, before its introduction at WWDC 2013 in early-June, according to Bloomberg. The report notes that Apple is pulling additional engineering resources from the OS X 10.9 team, in a repeat scenario as 2007...

Apple’s iOS 7 will arrive “on time,” according to a couple of well-placed sources following a report from Bloomberg this morning that suggests it was risking delays in the face of major software changes. Apple blogger and noted beard-wearer Jim Dalrymple gave one of his famous one-word confirms...