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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Microsoft has revealed that the Windows 8 Developer Preview, a pre-beta version of the company’s newest operating system, has been downloaded 500,000 times in the first 12 hours after it was launched. The preview version of Windows 8 was posted to Microsoft’s website on Wednesday, just after the company officially unveiled its latest operating system. Microsoft...
The Blue Screen of Death has always been the only thing that we don’t want to see on our computers. It is just an error message that is filled with text that tells the users about what caused the crash in the Windows operating system. For many of us who have seen it, it makes absolutely no sense and we follow it up with a reboot. Now, with the new Windows operating...
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...
Samsung is now building a tablet that runs on Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 8, according to a report. Korea Economic Daily said that Samsung is currently working on a quad-core tablet that runs Windows 8, making it the first tablet PC that runs the newest Windows version. The publication cites an unnamed source for its information, and added that...
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...
Microsoft Corp. has opened a new blog and Twitter account to keep its partners and customers updated with the progress and development of its next-generation operating system, Windows 8. Windows President Steven Sinofsky made the blog’s first post titled “Building Windows 8,” sharing new information about the OS and describing the site’s purpose...
Reports say that PC’s will have the ability to play Xbox 360 games using Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 platform. According to a report by Insideris, Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox 360 gaming to its upcoming Windows 8 OS. Users who want to play Xbox games using their PCs will have to subscribe to its service (similar to Xbox Live). According to Insideris,...