Few releases in Microsoft’s multi-decade march through operating system history have sparked as much debate, confusion, and—retrospectively—underrated admiration as Windows 8. When Microsoft launched its bold, famously divisive OS in 2012, it was greeted with a chorus of criticism from long-time...
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This week, Microsoft took the wraps off an operating system specially made for touch-screen tablet devices. Did the software giant do it right?
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Microsoft has shown an early look at Windows 8. The upcoming OS is designed to run on any machine, from a tablet to a desktop PC, and while it has some genuinely clever features, it is at heart yet another skinned version of regular old Windows. Here’s a video of it in action. Skip to [...]...
share: digg facebook twitter Microsoft will indeed show off the next version of Windows running on a tablet PC next week, Bloomberg News reports. Citing three anonymous sources, Bloomberg said Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows division, will demo the operating system’s...
We may be getting our first taste of Microsoft’s much anticipated Windows 8 tablet OS interface very soon. We previously reported that a preview of the platform would likely happen in June. And indeed, Microsoft Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, has just been confirmed to appear at next week’s D9...
More features of Windows 8 have emerged from discoveries in a liked Milestone 1 build. The OS is now known to have a "push notification platform" that would would send alarms and other notices from a remote server to the app in question, much as on iOS. References to "tiles" and "toasts" suggest...
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</br/> Today: Apple's less-than-humble descriptions of itself, iPad 2 launch day arrives, T-Mobile revives the Sidekick and gives it an Android heart, Call of Duty or sign of weakness, Windows 8 concepts are just that, and Microsoft's call for HTML 5 goodness.
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It takes a great (and aggressively handsome) man to admit when he was wrong. And I may have been wrong about Windows 7 as a tablet OS. For a while, it seemed like we'd never see a product that had a...
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