It looks as though Microsoft actually has a shot at competing with iOS and Android in BYOD. Mobile app developers have a growing interest in HTML5, especially for Windows 8, which is great news for ...

If you are as old as me, you remember the transition from MS-DOS to Windows in the early 1990s. Dominant applications like Lotus 123 and WordPerfect were quickly knocked from their perches as the ...

Microsoft has followed in Apple's footsteps and distanced itself from Flash, putting its energies into HTML5 in Windows 8. The Windows 8 Metro IE10 browser – accessed through the touch-friendly ...

Windows 8 wasn't the only widely used piece of software to be released in an early form this week. Internet Explorer 10 saw its third platform preview, Microsoft noted on its Building IE blog. In ...

With the release of Windows 8.1 Preview, Netflix now supports streaming over HTML5 instead of Microsoft's proprietary Silverlight plug-in. The caveat is that only Internet Explorer 11, which is ...

Microsoft made available for download version 1.8 of its Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) on September 17. According to a new blog post announcing the update, version 1.8 is the ...

Microsoft is having a good old time at MIX10, showing off all sorts of new things. New things like... Internet Explorer 9, which has just been previewed at the developer event, and here's what we've ...

Cloud computing and classroom management software developer Stoneware has launched a new version of its webRDP HTML5 Gateway that allows end users to access remote Windows computers without a client.

In April, Netflix announced that for the web browser version of its streaming video service, it would make the move from using Microsoft's Silverlight to HTML5. Today, Netflix confirmed that people ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Twitter is releasing a new TweetDeck app that puts the Adobe Air version out to pasture in favor of HTML5-based ...