Software giant Microsoft Corp. has announced the availability of its Windows 8 Consumer Preview, a pre-beta build of its next Windows operating system. This week, users can get the preview from its website at http://preview.windows.com. The new touch-based Windows 8 OS aims to power traditional PCs and tablet PCs, in an effort to counter the huge market gains of Apple...
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South Korean electronics giant Samsung will be merging its home-grown Bada operating system with the open source Tizen, as it aims to look for an alternative to Google’s Android mobile OS. According to a report from Reuters, the company has confirmed the move, which had been revealed by Kand Tae-jin, one of Samsung Electronics’ senior vice presidents, in an...
Apple has finally released an iOS 5 patch that is designed to fix existing issues present in the mobile operating system’s initial launch. The patch fixes bugs affecting the iPhone 4S’ battery life and some security holes. The iOS 5.0.1 update adds multitasking gestures to the first generation iPad tablet, which was absent in the initial release of the OS;...
Apple has released the “Gold Master” version of the iOS 5 mobile operating system to developers, one week before its official launch on October 12. If you are a registered iOS developer, you can download the gold master today from developer.apple.com. The iOS 5 Gold Master is pretty much the version that will be available to the public. It has all the features...
Apple has announced the iOS 5, the company’s next-generation mobile operating system, as well as the iCloud service, at its “Let’s Talk iPhone” media event Tuesday. Apple’s Senior Vice President of iPhone software Scott Forstall has made the announcement at its press event today. Forstall said that the new operating system will be available...
Microsoft Corp. has unveiled the first tablet that will run the Windows 8 to developers last Tuesday. Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows, showed off the device while presenting a number of features of the company’s new operating system, Windows 8, at the 2011 BUILD conference in Anaheim, California. The company said that they will give out 5,000 units of the device...
Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC is considering acquiring Hewlett-Packard’s WebOS or buying another mobile operating system, according to some reports. According to an interview, Cher Wang, chairwoman of HTC, said that the members of the board have been thinking and looking at options whether the company will buy its own operating system, but ni decisions have been...
Today’s Building Windows 8 blog post is not really about new Windows 8 tweaks and features. It is about how the new tiled Metro tablet user interface will interact with the standard Windows Desktop we are used to. Microsoft also discussed about where the company is taking the new operating system in terms of user interface and how the Metro idea came about. Microsoft...
The most recent Building Windows 8 blog post describes how the new operating system can mount and work with files stored in VHD and ISO files natively. For those people who are unfamiliar with these files, ISO files are saved images of DVDs or CDs that can be stored on a computer’s hard disk drive so that it can be burned to a disk. Most install disks, including...
The team behind the development of Windows 8 is continuously informing people about the new operating system’s features on the Building Windows 8 blog, and now, they have posted about the reworked copy, rename, move and delete features of the upcoming Windows version. According to the development team, the file Management features represent about 50 percent of the...
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