Microsoft will “leave no stone unturned” in the competition with Apple. The corporation intends to compete in every segment of the market where the “apple” company is present. This was stated in an interview with CRN by Steve Ballmer, chief executive Officer of Microsoft.

The new Windows 8 operating system will be released in October 2012. This was announced at the Worldwide Partner Conference, which opened on July 9 in Toronto, by Tami Reller, vice president of Windows.

On July 13-14, Moscow will host a summer school on the design of applications and icons for them for the Metro graphical environment used in Windows Phone and Windows 8 operating systems. 

From July 23 to 27, Moscow will host a series of consultations on the development of desktop and tablet applications for the Windows Store app store for Windows 8. Read about the new app store and the event below.

comScore has published its next quarterly review of the American market of mobile devices and platforms. According to him, 234 million people use mobile devices in the United States, Samsung is slowing its growth, and Android still accounts for more than half of the OS market. 

Only 10 days have passed since the announcement by Microsoft of the Surface tablet running Windows 8, and Russian analysts from Hi-Tech@Mail.Ru has already managed to conduct a small study regarding how Russian users perceive the new OS and tablets on it.

Yesterday, as part of the Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft presented an updated version of its mobile platform. Windows Phone 8 is very different from the “seven” and may well become a real competitor to iOS and Android.

The development of the secret Meltemi OS for low-cost smartphones was discontinued by Nokia due to budget cuts of the company. 

The other day we wrote that Angry Birds and PES do not work on new budget smartphones from Nokia (namely Lumia 610). Just last night it turned out that the problems are not only with the gadgets of the Finnish manufacturer. It turns out that in addition to the mentioned applications on budget devices, about 25% of mobile Xbox Live games will not work on Windows Phone. 

According to a study conducted by Game Developer magazine, Unity is the most popular engine among mobile developers. More than half of the insiders interviewed by the magazine said that they use this package for development. 

Microsoft and Nokia, with the help of a jury, determined 7 winners of the second wave of the mobile developers competition called “The best applications – free promotion!”.

According to figures published by Microsoft, its mobile platform has not only caught up in popularity, but also left behind Apple’s operating system in the People’s Republic of China. MTS claims that the share of WP in Russia is greater than that of iOS.

According to unofficial data, there are very few left to the mark of 100 thousand unique applications on the Microsoft platform.

Microsoft and Intel are going to seriously shrink Apple’s share in the tablet market by releasing more than 30 devices on the “eight” to the shelves by the end of the year. 

The Redmonds made an unexpected offer to the developers: to transfer their applications to the newly opened new Windows Phone Marketplace markets by Microsoft itself.

As soon as Apple released a new iPad, rumors began to spread about a new, new iPad. They say it will be quite small. Why its release will not take place, read below.  

On June 7-8, the VIII International Business Forum “The World of Mobile Content – MoCO 2012” will be held in Moscow.

 Transitions of specialists from one corporation to another are quite common in the IT market.

Western journalists are sure that the Apple company is developing an original controller for its devices.