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If Microsoft's 6-inch Lumia 1520 just isn't big enough for you, Wistron is hoping that its 6.45-inch 'Tiger' Windows Phone will be large enough to satisfy your needs - if it ever goes on sale.

In a interview published today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Longhorn, the much delayed Windows OS that was released as Windows Vista in 2007, was "the single biggest mistake I made."

In a new interview, Steve Ballmer said that his biggest regret while CEO was, to no surprise, the Longhorn-to-Vista launch issues that plagued the OS with negative public perception.

Vaporware; the products that just keep getting delayed, and then disappears; the tech industry's full of it, and this week's Trivia Tuesday is delving into the anticlimactic world of vaporware.

Ever been curious about Microsoft product codenames and the stories behind them? For this week's Trivia Tuesday, we've assembled a sampling of some of the most interesting, from Opus to Longhorn.

EA Sports is set to continue with plans to introduce a new Tiger Woods online game, despite the golfer's recent public relations meltdown as a result of his adultery scandal. The move comes just days...

Today Apple shipped another security update for Mac OS X, this time they published at least 33 updates according to ZDNet. The updates include various third party software updates affecting Mac OS X users....

The past two weeks have been rough for the HD DVD camp: Warner has defected to Blu-ray and there are strong rumors that Universal and Paramount are going to defect as well. It is no...

Apple Incorporated has released 31 new security-related fixes for both Tiger and Leopard; most of them were geared toward Mac OS X 10.4 as 10.5 was not always affected by the vulnerabilities. The flaws ranged...

To next to no one's surprise, Microsoft is going to christen Longhorn Server "Windows Server 2008." And it might do so as early as next week to coincide with the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC)...

Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" helps you to increase the flexibility of your server infrastructure while saving time and reducing costs. Powerful new management tools and security enhancements allow you to have more control...

If we are to believe the "recent report MacScoop has obtained", Apple is getting greedy. It seems the company want more than just $1.99 for the software update that enables 802.11n wifi on its Intel...

ActiveWin are claiming that the final designation for Windows Codenamed Longhorn Server will be Windows Server 2007 after all, how original! Speculated here long before Vista hit RTM. "An unnamed Microsoft official just confirmed to...

Testers who responded to the Microsoft call up to be re-included into the Windows Longhorn Server beta test have been notified that the test has been "restarted" under the old name "Windows Vista, Longhorn Server...

Hot on the heels of Windows Vista RC1, we have now released the August 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP)of Windows Server "Longhorn". It's available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers to download. Marked as Build 5560,...

Microsoft have started releasing updates during the Windows Vista/Longhorn beta, this one is of particular interest due to the fact that many people -including myself, have a hyper-threaded system with Windows Vista Beta 2 installed...

Enterprise customers can forget about the honor system Microsoft has in place for reporting Windows licenses they consume. Starting with the release of Vista and "Longhorn" Windows server next year, customers will be required to...

Naming a baby is always difficult, let alone a new operating system. Many of us have heard the litany of names which were bandied about for Windows Longhorn, and most guessed something along the lines...

The next Longhorn server beta is due "shortly" but the final product won't ship until the second half of 2007. During his keynote at the Microsoft Management Summit 2006, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of...

The processor in Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console will support Apple's Mac OS X Tiger operating system according to a recent posting to Sony's UK website. "Sony is expected to offer optional hard...

A Microsoft spokesperson who has been following our coverage of Windows Vista over the last few days, contacted me in regard to the naming of Longhorn Server -the next version of Windows Server, that is...

Bob Stein has just posted that the next version Windows, currently codenamed 'Longhorn', will in fact be named Windows Vista. There is currently no confirmation or announcement from Microsoft on this, but as...

For the past several years, Microsoft has been promising that Longhorn would deliver some substantial security, reliability and performance improvements. But until the worldwide partner conference in Minneapolis in mid-July, company officials had not quantified...

Microsoft's delayed Longhorn operating system appears to be taking a page from the Unix management book by curbing user's administration rights. Mike Nash, Microsoft's security business and technology unit corporate vice president, has said Longhorn...

Microsoft is offering a selected group of testers an early preview of Windows, Code-Name "Longhorn,". Longhorn Beta Program participants will preview software for the next generation of Windows as well as Internet Explorer 7 for...

Thanks neufuse for this piece taken from Paul Thurrott's weekly short takes for the week ending July 4th. As for Longhorn Beta 1, that milestone release is still on track for "this summer,"...

Microsoft has brought back veteran product closer, Chris Jones to run the Longhorn beta. Chris Jones was one of the primary forces behind getting Whistler (Windows XP) out the door. He replaces Joe Peterson...