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Recently, NZXT, a prominent player in the PC gaming market, announced its new subscription service, NZXT Flex. This initiative aims to provide gamers access to high-performance PCs without requiring a significant upfront investment. However, there's a catch: this model raises some pressing...

Overview On July 25, 2024, the Windows Insider Program announced a new feature that will enable users to access their Android phone directly within the File Explorer on Windows 11 devices. This capability is designed for those who are part of the Windows Insider Program and have an Android phone...

Windows Server 2019 is now generally available. Also this week: Microsoft released Office 2019 for Windows & MacOS users; Google turned 20 years old; accessibility improvements arrive with the latest Windows 10 feature update; and we look back at the maturation of Windows 10 over the last three...

You should already be aware that Microsoft recently used an update to change Microsoft Health app to Microsoft Band app. Many are confused why the company did this, considering its been rumored that Microsoft is exiting the fitness wearable hardware market and will no longer produce its...

Microsoft has taken a further step in it's current campaign to force it's latest os on unsuspecting users: Reference

Welcome back to Ping! We talk about the return of robot combat return to television, we chat about a one-way ticket to Mars on the space desk, and more stories that 'softies are pinging each other about... Link Removed Last Show... Link Removed Windows 95 is 20 years old today Link Removed...

The uptake of Windows 8 is hampered by a completely saturated U.S. PC market and corporate upgrades to Windows 7, says author of IDC study. Source: Yahoo! News

The web site Tweaktown is carrying an article showing leaked slides of Windows Blue. Whilst this isn't obviously an official first look it does give an idea of what to expect: Windows Blue build 9364 leaks out, multiple Live Tile sizes, same-width side-by-side apps on offer :: TweakTown

Revision Note: Advance Notification published. Summary: This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on October 9, 2012. More...

Softpedia are running an article relating to the release date of Windows 8: You can checkout the full article here: Windows 8 in 109 Languages, 231 Markets Globally - Softpedia

Windows ended its Mainstream Support for Microsoft's black sheep of operating systems, Windows Vista, which began its Extended Support phase. This means that while Vista users will receive security updates, they're going to have to pay for patches for the next five years. More...

At the Consumer Electronics show in this past week, Skype's VP of Products, Rick Osterloh discussed that Skype is (still) coming to Windows Phone 7 - "soon". This is the third time officials have said the application will be coming to the mobile platform. Originally, Microsoft announced that...

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Windows 7 continues to charge ahead as a successful operating system release for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed in a Monday keynote at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles that the number of licenses sold worldwide has now surpassed 400 million. More...

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer has officially confirmed today, during a developer conference in Tokyo, that the next version of Windows will be called Windows 8 and will debut in 2012. More details on Windows 8 could emerge at the upcoming D: All Things Digital conference, where Steven Sinofsky...

Link RemovedBig News for Those Anticipating Windows 8! It's being covered all over the news now. Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer on Monday confirmed that Windows 8, the next iteration of the software giant's operating system, will be available in 2012. Speaking at a Microsoft Developer...

At a developers' conference in Japan, Steve Ballmer revealed two points about the next version of Windows. It's called Windows 8 -- at least now -- and it's coming out in 2012. Source: Yahoo! News

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews The same day Steve Ballmer announces that Windows 8 will ship in 2012, the man in charger of OS development joins the D Conference last minute. The planets are aligning around a big Windows 8 debut next week. Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed...

IDG News Service - The next time a website says to download new software to view a movie or fix a problem, think twice. There's a pretty good chance that the program is malicious. In fact, about one out of every 14 programs downloaded by Windows users turns out to be malicious, Link Removed...