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Gameloft becomes the latest developer to abandon Windows phones

Gurkaran Singh — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 07:50:01 +0000

One of the better-known mobile game developers: Gameloft; has finally folded on Microsoft's more-or-less dead mobile platform. The decision came after Microsoft discontinued W10M's development. Read more...

Canonical founder explains why they abandoned the Unity project for Ubuntu

Gurkaran Singh — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:56:02 +0000

As Ubuntu swerves into the mainstream, one of the harder decisions that Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the OS, has had to take is the abandonment of Unity. The executive explains the notion behind it. Read more...

Sprint and Clearwire Abandon Plans to Join WiMax Networks

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:19:28 +0000

Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. announced today they have canceled their plan to combine the high-speed wireless networks they are building. The two companies originally announced the agreement this July, but were unable to... Read more...

Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself

Steven Parker — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:46:28 +0000

Don Reisinger has written an article on Windows Vista and how it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in Microsoft's history, not my personal view but a good read all the... Read more...

Microsoft to abandon passwords

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:50:49 +0000

Microsoft has revealed at a security panel at CeBIT that it is preparing to dump passwords in favour of two-factor authentication in forthcoming versions of Windows. Detlef Eckert, the senior director in charge of Microsoft's... Read more...

Red Hat to Abandon Shrinkwrap

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 23:51:56 +0000

Red Hat, the leading American distributor of Linux, is changing the way its distributions are developed the company is expected to announce Monday. Red Hat has also decided to abandon the shrinkwrap box retail channel,... Read more...