An article in Zdnet Windows 8 is a big risk to the consumer PC industry made some important points about the status of the PC industry as a whole and [...]
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Windows 8 is still nearly a year away from being released and we’re hoping to get a good look at it in the first public beta in about a months time. But many people who haven’t actually downloaded and installed the developer preview don’t know what’s new in Windows 8.
One of the coolest things that we’ve seen come from Windows 8 is the new picture password log on feature. For those of you who don’t know, this is a new method of logging in. It’s quite a cool feature if you ask me, however it’s been slated be some security experts.
here’s been much talk over the new Windows 8 App Store that’s set to be released alongside Windows 8 sometime next year. Microsoft hasn’t given us a chance to have a proper look at it yet, just shown us a few brief demo’s. However it looks like this app store will be a great deal for publishers
Everybody was looking forward to Microsoft finally releasing the Windows 8 developer preview so that we could all finally get to play around with the latest edition of Windows 8, however I haven’t really used it at all, I’m wondering have any of you?
Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini seems to be over the moon with the developments Microsoft has made with Windows 8. He called it “one of the best things that’s ever happened to our company”, now that’s a pretty bold claim.
While Windows 8 is designed to run on many different devices, the developers at Microsoft seem to be focusing heavily on tablet functionality.
With Windows 8 Microsoft are moving the goalposts in user interface design considerably and there has been much debate over the relative pros and cons of taking this approach. With [...]
Windows 8 uses a lot less RAM and Memory than Windows 7. It does this by using new features such as memory combining and intelligently identifying processes that don’t need to be running
Windows 8 comes with a built in antivirus program instead of using microsoft’s security essentials software. But early tests say that it’s not very good and is missing even the most basic threats
For years now experts (and Microsoft) have said that one of the main reasons Windows has proven so popular is the familiarity people have with the OS (aside from other reasons [...]
Yesterday Robert wrote about what many of use were expecting, that Metro apps in Windows 8 would only be available through the new Windows Store. Windows 8 will support, as [...]
Microsoft are set to formally unveil Windows 8 in just two days at their BUILD conference in California, but what are we expecting them to announce. Some details of Windows [...]
