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Windows Death Screen Get A Makeover

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A Blue Screen of Death as seen in XP and Vista

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Microsoft has given the old blue screen of death the blue screen of death.

On the recently announced Windows 8, available in very early developer’s beta, the Blue Screen of Death is going to look a little different, according to a discovery by Geek.com. The Blue Screen of Death, or BSOD, or Stop Error, has become something of a symbol of frustration with Windows.

If you’ve never seen one (you luck thing!), it’s current appears as a screen of white text on a blue background that appears whenever the system irreparably crashes and has to restart (hence, Blue Screen of Death).

Windows 8 Features list

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Windows 8, which was fully unveiled at the Windows Build Conference in Anaheim, California, is here, and it looks much,

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much different from Windows 7. Sure, it has the start-bar-and-icon “Desktop” look that Windows users are familiar with, but it also has a new, touchscreen-optimized interface called ‘Metro,’ which looks more like the Windows Phone operating system and which looks like the future of Microsoft Windows from here on out.

The touch-optimized interface was all Stephen Sinofsky, President of Windows, and Julie Larson-Green, Corporate Vice President of Windows, were talking about when they showed off Windows 8 to developers at the conference. (They did not, however, mention when the new OS would be available to users.)

The 9 Most Valuable Tech Brand In The U.S.A

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Brand Finance, a consulting agency specializing in brand valuation, has released its “Brand Finance Global 100” report ranking the world’s most valuable brands.

This annual list is compiled to supplement the “Brand Finance Global 500,” which was released back in March. To create its ranking, the agency evaluates companies and awards points based on a brand value index, which is defined as “a benchmarking study of the strength, risk and future potential of a brand relative to its competitor set as well as a brand value: a summary measure of the financial strength of the brand.”

We won’t give away the most valuable brand (you’ll have to view the slideshow to find out), but we will say that it’s a tech company that ranked first in both the United States and the rest of the world in Brand Finance’s previous release. The new report also reflects several big changes that have taken place since earlier in 2011.

Skype To Buy GroupMe, A Year-Old Group Messaging Service

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Online calling service Skype, which Microsoft said earlier this year it would acquire for $8.5 billion, announced its own acquisition on Sunday: according to a blog post from Skype CEO Tony Bates, the company is buying GroupMe, a New York-based startup just over a year old that offers users a way to send group messages from their phones.

Though Skype did not offer details on the purchase price, according to All Things Digital, Skype is paying “around $85 million for the company,” which was valued at $35 million during a $10 million round of funding raised in November of last year. Earlier this month, GroupMe, which has around 20 employees, celebrated its one-year anniversary in New York. Business Insider notes the company has “a few million users” and sends “sends more than 100 million texts per month.”

Microsoft Offering Sneak Peeks At Windows 8

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Anyone anticipating the release of Windows 8 might want to check out Microsoft‘s new blog, Building Windows 8, which will chronicle the development of the forthcoming operating system.

Windows President Steven Sinofsky published the first post on Building Windows 8 (or B8 as it’s affectionately referred to by his team) on Monday evening.

“We intend to post regularly throughout the development of Windows 8, and to focus on the engineering of the product,” Sinofsky wrote. “Blogging allows us to have a two-way dialog with you about design choices, real-world data and usage, and new opportunities that are part of Windows 8.”

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9

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Windows Phone Head “Charlie Kindel” Quits Microsoft

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Charlie Kindel, one of the most public faces of Microsoft‘s Windows Phone group, has quit Microsoft after 21 years to start his own company.

Kindel was charged with getting developers on board for the new platform, and he and his team have done a pretty good job so far — Windows Phone has more than 25,000 apps after less than nine months on market. But it still trails behind the hundreds of thousands of apps available for the iPhone and Android. A lack of long-tail apps is really the only glaring gap in Microsoft’s mobile platform, which is otherwise a solid competitor.

Kindel reported the news on his personal blog this morning and posted his good-bye email. It’s mostly full of inside jokes, but one funny bit:

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