Posts

Showing posts with the label MSFT

BlackBerry licenses Microsoft's exFAT

This deal will be one of several that Microsoft signed with others such as, Panasonic, Sony and Cannon (all Japanese). The motivation for RIMM ( http://us.blackberry.com/ ) is to be able to face Apple and Google squarely in the face and of course it aligns with Microsoft's wish as well. exFAT created for flash drives has better specs than the FAT system (which is not all that fat, could not stiffle the pun) in terms of file sizes (32 exabytes vs 32GB), formatting size, files in a directory limits all eliminated. Vista was not popular but exFAT was made its debut in Vista SP1. You may ask why not NTFS but NTFS has overheads for its special structure not suited for a small footprint. exFAT is not just for Microsoft windows you can use it on MAC as well for models later than with SnowLeopard ( https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2790170?start=0&tstart=0 ) Well, good luck to you RIMM. Get a some more tech info here: http://www.on-time.com/rtos-32-docs/rtfiles-32/program...

Samsung has unveiled Ativ S with Windows 8

The talking heads on CNBC were all talking about it. Looks like Windows 8 is drawing more admirers. Samsung has unveiled Ativ S with Windows 8 (related story here: http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0831/Samsung-unveils-the-Ativ-S-the-first-ever-Windows-8-phone ) I have a Windows 7 Samsung' Focus and I will get a Windows 8 when it becomes generally available. Can it beat the Android handsets? You bet, I am confident that it will. Microsoft stocks as well as that of Nokia will go up in a matter of mere 2 months. If you do not own them, now may be the time. The new phone has a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED screen, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, and an 8-megapixel rear camera paired with a 1.9-megapixel front-facing one. The phone will come in 16GB and 32GB flavors. It's 8.7mm thick. Read the 10 things that Windows 8 phones does better than iPad here including how Internet Explorer 10 will best the Chrome: http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Latest-News-Wires/2012...