Firefox for Windows 8 Metro Makes Progress
With Windows 8 comes a fundamental shift in the Windows operating system world that will have significant consequences for users and developers.
Latest Windows 8 News
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Microsoft Cuts Down On Windows 8 Editions
When you look at the number of Windows 7 editions available you may have the feeling that a computer science degree would help you tremendously pick the right e
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Windows 8 Store Needs To Be Fixed Before Launch
If you have followed the development of Microsoft's upcoming operating system Windows 8 up to this point you know that the OS will ship with a store for Metro a
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Firefox Metro Prototype For Windows 8 Ready
Mozilla plans to release a version of the browser for Microsoft's upcoming Metro user interface that ships with the Windows 8 operating system.
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Classic Shell Adds A Start Menu Back To Windows 8
With Windows 8 shipping without a start menu, third party solutions are starting to be released to fill the gap for users who prefer to use a start menu in Micr
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Windows 8 To Go On Sale In October According To Bloomberg
Microsoft is keeping everyone guessing about the release date of both the Windows 8 RTM version and the final version.
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Windows 8 Codec Pack Available
When you cannot play a media file on your system, it is usually because a codec that is missing to play that file on the operating system.
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What it's like giving Windows 8 Talks
As I write this I'm sitting in a hotel room in Bradford, West Yorkshire (UK) getting ready to give a talk tonight to a large IT user group about Windows 8.
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Do You Love the Windows 8 Consumer Preview or Hate it?
Whatever Microsoft may be saying about how great the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is, there can be little doubt that it's provoking some very strong reactions.
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Google Developing A Chrome Metro Version For Windows 8
The two user interfaces that Windows 8 ships with make it more time and development intensive for developers to provide a working software version for both inte
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[Appeal] Send me Your Windows 8 Troubleshooting Issues and Problems
As the author of the Microsoft Press book, Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out you might expect with a new version of Windows now upon us I'd be thinking about
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Windows 8 Is Not Intuitive To Use, At Least For Now
Have you ever watched someone with little computing experience use a computer? If you ever worked tech support or are the go-to guy when tech issues come up, yo
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Mozilla Begins Work on Firefox Metro Version
If you have followed the development progress of Microsoft's upcoming operating system Windows 8 closely, you may know that it ships with two different versions
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What's Good and What's Bad About the Windows 8 Consumer Preview
I've had a good few days now to delve deep into Windows 8 and I've decided what I think is good, great, bad and awful about the OS.
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Stardock's Start8 Brings Back The Windows 8 Start Menu
With Microsoft's decision to pull the classic start menu from the upcoming Windows 8 operating system, came a rise of third party solutions to bring back the st
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What do you want to see in "The Windows 8 Power Users Guide"?
I have now begun to write "The Windows 8 Power Users Guide" in anger, having spent a few days having a deep dig into the Consumer Preview of the operating syste
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Windows 8 for Business
When I came to review the Windows 8 Consumer Preview I decided that the best way to do it was to split it into separate reviews for the different types of peopl
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Check if Your Devices Are Compatible With Windows 8
Before you consider installing a version of Windows 8, you should make sure that all of your third party devices work fine with the operating system.
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Windows 8 Still Offers Quick Admin Tools Access
One of the biggest concerns IT Pros and businesses had about Windows 8 was the hiding of the administrative and computer management features in the OS.
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Windows 8 for IT Pros
In order to properly review Windows 8, as Microsoft have said that they consider it to be essentially finished and feature-locked, I thought it would be best to
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ViStart Restores Start Menu, Disables Metro Ui in Windows 8
Microsoft has removed the start menu for good in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview version that was released yesterday.
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How To Shut Down Windows 8
With the start menu gone for good in Microsoft's upcoming operating system Windows 8, some users have run into problems shutting down the PC properly.
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Windows 8 Tips For Professionals
Even if you are a tech savvy user, it will take some time before you understand the workflow and functionality of Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system.
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Microsoft Beta Day, Windows 8, .Net 4.5, Visual Studio 11
Microsoft has released several beta versions of upcoming products.
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview to be Released [Updated]
The waiting and uncertainty are finally over and at long last all our questions will be answered as Microsoft are set to release the Windows 8 Consumer Preview
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Microsoft Reveals SkyDrive Will Be Integrated Into Windows 8
There are not many Windows 8 features that excite me as much as the planned integration of Microsoft's online storage and document editing service SkyDrive in t
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The Last Week Without Windows 8, What is the Tech World Doing?
Unless you hadn't noticed, Microsoft are gearing up for the release of the Windows 8 (beta) Consumer Preview publicly in just over a week, but others, such as o
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Why Enterprise-Level Metro Apps Can and Will Work
I've written a lot about Windows 8 over the last few days as we approach the release of the Consumer Preview at the end of this month.
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Mozilla To Release Firefox Version For Windows 8 Metro UI
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that Microsoft's upcoming operating system Windows 8 will ship with two different interfaces.
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Will we Anti-Trust Microsoft in the Future?
It's not that long ago, really not a distant memory, when Microsoft were hauled before regulators in the US and Europe for several years over the anti-competiti
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Can Windows 8 Be All Things to All People? The Case for Splitting It Up!
Yesterday Microsoft finally announced their plans for Windows 8 running on ARM-designed processors.
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Coming February 29th
The beta "Consumer Preview" version of Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system could be released on Wednesday 29th February.
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Why Have Microsoft Been So Quiet About Windows 8
In case you missed it, we've had a great Windows 8 discussion going on here at gHacks in the last couple of days, one that is no doubt set to continue for [&hel
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On Keeping An Open Mind When It Comes To Windows 8 - A Response
Yesterday Martin wrote up his thoughts and concerns about the forthcoming Windows 8 operating system from Microsoft.
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On Keeping An Open Mind When It Comes To Windows 8
As a Windows user, I'm keeping a close eye on all Windows 8 development tidbits and leaks that I can find online and offline.
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The Windows 8 "Consumer Preview", What's in a Name?
It is widely expected that when Microsoft launch the Windows 8 beta in a few weeks that it will be labelled the "Windows 8 Consumer Preview".
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Windows 8 Metro UI Won't Allow Custom Backgrounds
With the Windows 8 Beta just around the corner, it is becoming easier to see into which direction Microsoft is heading in regards to the final version of the op
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Windows Store, Too Metroesque For The Desktop?
Microsoft revealed additional information about the Windows Store that the company plans to integrate into the Windows 8 operating system yesterday.
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Could "Windows TV" be Windows 8's biggest surprise?
The closer we get to the unveiling of the Windows 8 beta, the more I'm thinking about the impact (or not) this operating system is going to have on the world.
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Will Windows 8 Tablets Make IT Pros Hate Microsoft?
As we approach the beta of Windows 8 I've been thinking more about Windows tablets, and on our sister site Windows8News I've today written an article about the
