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How good is Windows Phone 8 security? Actually, pretty good. The key features are described here [pdf]: Trusted Boot prevents booting to an alternative operating system, using the UEFI secure boot standard. Only signed operating system components and apps can run. App sandboxing: No communication channels exist between apps on the phone other …continue reading Windows Phone 8 enterprise security versus Blackberry 10 Balance and Samsung Knox Power shifts at Mobile World Congress: Samsung rises, Apple absent, Google hidden, Microsoft missingMobile World Congress, now under way in Barcelona, is a big event. Exact numbers are not available, but I have heard talk of 70,000 trade attendees; it is not something you can safely ignore if you have a presence in the mobile industry. Nevertheless Apple chooses to ignore it, preferring its own exclusive events. …continue reading Power shifts at Mobile World Congress: Samsung rises, Apple absent, Google hidden, Microsoft missing At Mobile World Congress there are endless identikit Android smartphones. Does that justify Nokia’s decision two years ago to adopt Windows Phone? We will never know; but there is some merit in a distinctive offering, even though it comes with the pain of being a minority choice. The press would prefer to see jaw-dropping …continue reading Nokia at Mobile World Congress: aiming for a bigger market Here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona HP has announced a 7” Android tablet which will be available in April. I took a quick look at the Mobile Focus event today. The back of the device is more interesting, showing logos for HP and for Beats Audio. From the front you would be pushed …continue reading HP goes Android: what does that say about Windows 8? The Windows Runtime, the new touch-friendly platform in Windows 8. It solves many problems. Not only is it tablet-friendly, but apps are sandboxed for security, and easy to deploy. No setup hassles, just one-click (or tap) install or uninstall. It also supports three types of development covering most tastes: native C++, .NET Framework, or HTML …continue reading Windows Runtime flaws spoil new Windows Store (Metro) apps Xamarin has announced significant updates to its developer platform. Xamarin is the company formed around 18 months ago, when Novell discontinued its investment in Mono, a cross-platform implementation of C# and the .NET Framework. Its focus is on mobile platforms, in particular iOS and Android, though there is also support for the Mac. On Windows …continue reading Xamarin 2.0 and Xamarin Studio announced, build for OSX, iOS and Android with C# When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 8, one disappointment was that existing phones would not be upgraded to the new mobile operating system. In mitigation, Microsoft promised Windows Phone 7.8 instead, an upgrade to Windows Phone 7.5 that implements the most visible feature of WP8, a new Start screen with more flexible live tiles that can …continue reading Windows Phone 7.8 Live Tiles are buggy, say users Microsoft has launched Surface Pro, its own-brand Windows 8 tablet, causing the usual agitation. The 128GB model is sold out online, but has it sold well, or did Microsoft only make a few? Is it too expensive for the spec? Is the battery life too poor? Can you type properly with it on your …continue reading Windows 8: Forget Surface Pro, what matters is the app platform I installed Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 a few days ago – rarely a straightforward task, thanks to Active Directory dependencies and the complexities of Windows security. There also seem to be unfixed bugs in the setup. For example, I always find that the trace directory is incorrectly configured and has to be fixed via PowerShell, …continue reading Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 hassles: asynchronous processing service stopped Microsoft has announced Git integration in both the Visual Studio IDE and the Team Foundation Service hosted source code management system. According to Technical Fellow Brian Harry: 1. Team Foundation Server will host Git repositories – and more concretely, Team Foundation Service has support for hosting Git repositories starting today. 2. Visual Studio will …continue reading Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server get Git integration |
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