Microsoft has already had a very exciting WPC 2012. It has already announced the approximate date of the consumer release of Windows 8, additionally the company announced the takeover of Perceptive Pixel and also talked about the momentum behind Windows 7. One thing however, that went rather unnoticed was a demo of Windows 8 on a USB drive users can not only get their data on a different computer, but also can run Windows 8 even on a machine running Windows 7. (more…)Google+

While Nokia’s Q4 report did not open a Pandora’s box, it did manage to spring in a few surprising factoids.  The most interesting was the $250 million “Platform support Payment” that Microsoft in Nokia’s favor to use Windows Phone in Q4 of 2011. While Nokia pays Microsoft a licensing fee like all other Windows Phone OEMs it does appear that due to the special relationship Nokia harbors with Redmond, they could perhaps be paying much less than any other OEM. Previously it has been reported that ...