When Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 yesterday they said what most people were expecting them to, that a new tablet-friendly interface would be the default way to interact with the new version of the OS.  This new Metro UI would load when you start Windows and that Microsoft expected most people to interact with Windows 8 [...]

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Microsoft today will release a developer preview of Windows 8 to the public. The developer preview will be available starting 8pm tonight Seattle time and will include 32-bit and 64-bit builds of Windows 8 plus development tools.It includes furthermore a suite of sample and SDK applications as well as the SDK. Microsoft notes that the [...]

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Have you ever worked with two or even more computers at the same workplace? Maybe by using a desktop computer and a laptop at the same time. If you did, you had to cope with two keyboard and a mouse or touchpad on each computer. Not very handy, especially not so if space was limited [...]

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Metro UI; That’s the name of the new user interface that Microsoft plans to ship with the Windows 8 operating system when it comes out next year. What we did not know until now was how the interface would be integrated into the operating system, especially so on desktop PCs. Many users suspected that the [...]

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I like the ability to mount iso images on my operating system. Have used this feature for a long time. Up until now, I had to install a third party iso mounting software for that. While that worked nicely, it was always a burden to install those virtual hardware drivers to add support for that. [...]

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Microsoft is currently pushing out new announcements like crazy on the Building Windows 8 blog. We for instance know that the company will improve file management features like copying in the new operating system. Today another major change was revealed in a very detailed post on the blog. Windows Explorer will receive a complete redesign [...]

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The default Windows file management tool Windows Explorer is in dire need of an overhaul. This includes – in my humble opinion – the interface but also the capabilities of the software. Microsoft recently made the announcement that the company will improve the file management capabilities of Windows Explorer in the upcoming Windows 8 operating [...]

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Most new PCs these days will come preinstalled with Microsoft’s relatively new Office 2010 Starter.  This is the replacement for the frankly awful Microsoft Works and gives people a much better upgrade path to the full version of Office if they want it… or does it? I get a regular tech mailbag of people asking [...]

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I just love stories like this and it is the silly season after all so here’s a story to make you chuckle for the end of the weekend.  A man known as David Stebbins from Arkansas has filed a motion in Seattle against Microsoft claiming that they owe him half a billion dollars. The claim [...]

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