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Microsoft discusses Windows 8's dueling Metro, desktop UIs Windows 8's tile-based Metro interface is undoubtedly the operating system's most controversial new feature. Critics have bashed Microsoft for catering to tablets with... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems |
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Windows 8 offers native ISO mounting support Microsoft has a new post up on its Building Windows 8 blog. This time, the company is detailing the operating system's native support... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems |
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Microsoft wraps ribbon around Windows 8 Explorer interface Think Windows 8 is all about tablet-centric tiles? Think again. The Building Windows 8 blog has an interesting post on changes... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems |
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Windows 8 to spruce up Explorer file management In Monday's preview of USB 3.0 support in Windows 8, Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky hinted that we'd soon get a glimpse of the upcoming operating... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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Microsoft building native USB 3.0 support into Windows 8 Getting those blue USB ports on your motherboard to work should be much simpler next year. According to the Building Windows 8 blog on MSDN,... Type: News story Tags: Storage Input devices Operating systems Windows |
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Pirates to face tougher challenge with Windows 8 Windows 8 is coming, and Microsoft naturally wants to make the new OS difficult to pirate. ExtremeTech has a few details on Redmond's... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems |
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Poll: Do you shut down, sleep, or hibernate? For ages, I've been in the habit of never turning off my primary PC. It's a desktop, and old habits die hard. However,... Poll Question: • When not in use, my primary PC is usually: Type: News story Tags: Operating systems |
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Google to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion Looks like Google is serious about this whole Android thing. The search giant has coughed up $12.5 billion to purchase Motorola Mobility. Whoa. As... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Personal tech |
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Chromium OS tablet UI demoed on video With Android invading an ever-growing number of tablets and phones, and netbooks falling out of favor with trendy first-worlders, I've always assumed that Google would... Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems |
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Microsoft: Windows 8 won't require a hardware upgrade The arrival of Windows Vista caused quite a fuss a few years backānot just because the operating system lacked polish, but also because it required... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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'Only' 999 more days left for XP security updates Yesterday marked an interesting milestone for Windows XP. In 1,000 days (or 999 as of today), Microsoft will stop providing security updates for... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems |
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Ubuntu ushers me out of the Windows XP era Well, it finally happened. Windows XP is no longer the primary OS on any of my day-to-day machines. The last holdout was my laptop,... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems |
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HP confirms talks to license WebOS That certainly didn't take long. Barely a month after publicly entertaining the notion of licensing its webOS mobile operating system to other firms, HP... Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Personal tech |
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Steve Jobs dazzles developers with new OSes, iCloud Wow. I've been enjoying Apple keynotes for the better part of the last decade (hey, Steve Jobs is quite the showman), and today's Worldwide Developers... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Mac Personal tech |
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Could Windows 8's new UI be a sign of things to come? If what Microsoft showed earlier this week is any indication, Windows 8 looks set to abandon age-old user interface paradigms and serve up a full-screen,... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows Mac |
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Microsoft demos Windows 8's new interface Late yesterday, Microsoft lifted the veil off Windows 8, previewing a new user interface designed to bridge the gap between conventional PCs and touch-enabled... Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Windows |
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Etc. Greetings from Damage Labs, where I sit in my storm-hardened bunker while no less than five active tornado warnings cover my area, as the sirens... Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems |
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Ballmer lets slip Windows 8 release schedule, backtracks Something strange happened at the Microsoft Developer Forum in Tokyo, Japan yesterday. According to the official transcript on Microsoft's website, CEO Steve Ballmer said... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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