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Windows Phone 8 enterprise security versus Blackberry 10 Balance and Samsung Knox

By tim, on February 28th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

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

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Power shifts at Mobile World Congress: Samsung rises, Apple absent, Google hidden, Microsoft missing

By tim, on February 27th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Mobile 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.

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Microsoft’s Server 2012 Essentials: a good replacement for Small Business Server?

By tim, on October 9th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has completed Windows Server 2012 Essentials, the kind-of replacement for Small Business Server (SBS) in the Server 2012 range.

I say “kind-of” because it does not replicate the old SBS idea of bundling Windows Server, Exchange, and optionally SQL Server into a single keenly-priced bundle designed to work on one or two servers.

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Crisis in Microsoft land: what next after the mixed reception for Windows 8 Consumer Preview?

By tim, on March 13th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft will have expected some users to find the transition from Windows 7 to Windows 8 challenging, but I doubt it was ready for the reaction from its own community that it is receiving for Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

The best place to start is the comments on Building Windows blog here and here

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Review: JetBrains AppCode for Objective C

By tim, on November 3rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I have been trying out JetBrains AppCode, a new IDE for Apple’s Objective C. The company is best known for its IntelliJ IDE for Java, and AppCode essentially takes the same core IDE and reworks it for Objective C. AppCode is itself a Java application, but unless you have a religious objection to this I

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Adobe MAX 2011 and the future of Flash

By tim, on October 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The unstated theme of Adobe MAX 2011 last week was this: what is the future of Flash? The issue being that with HTML 5 ascendant and Apple wrecking the idea of Flash as an ubiquitous web plug-in, should Adobe be frantically retooling its design tools for HTML and apps, or does Flash still have a

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Fixing a slow Windows XP PC

By tim, on December 23rd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday I investigated a Windows XP machine that had become so slow it was unusable. It was a Dell Dimension 2350 with 1GB RAM and a 2.00 Ghz Celeron CPU – not too bad a spec for XP – that had been out of use for a while and was being brought back into service

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HTML 5 Canvas: the only plugin you need?

By tim, on November 26th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The answer is no, of course. And Canvas is not a plugin. That said, here is an interesting proof of concept blog and video from Alexander Larsson: a GTK3 application running in Firefox without any plugin.

GTK is an open source cross-platform GUI framework written in C but with bindings to other languages

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25 years of Windows: triumph and tragedy

By tim, on November 22nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I wrote a (very) short history of Windows for the Register, focusing on the launch of Windows 1.0 25 years ago.

I used Oracle VirtualBox to run Windows 1.0 under emulation since it more or less works. I found an old floppy with DOS 3.3 since Windows 1.0 does not run on DOS 6.2,

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First impressions of Microsoft Kinect – great hardware waiting for great software

By tim, on November 12th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The moment of magic comes when someone walks through the gaming area and Xbox flashes up the message that they have signed in. No button was pressed; this was face recognition working in the background during gameplay.

So Kinect is amazing. And it is amazing: it is controller-less video gaming that works well enough to

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