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Multilanguage Windows 8 Doesn’t Equal OS X
Windows 8′s multilanguage support may not be a big deal to many people, but if you live in a country whose language isn’t your own, or you have a multilingual family, it has enormous potential. If you can get through the installation. Microsoft’s history with multiple-language versions of Windows is brief. Actually, it’s close to non-existent. Before Windows 7, the company all but said that it couldn’t be done. Each country’s Windows was too dissimilar from others’ to allow for… continue…
Can BlackBerry or Windows Phone Overcome the iOS, Android Duopoly?
Can BlackBerry or Windows Phone Overcome the iOS, Android Duopoly? (via slashdot) The company formerly known as Research In Motion—which decided to cut right to the proverbial chase and rename itself “BlackBerry”—launched its much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 operating system at a high-profile event in New York City Jan. 30. BlackBerry hopes the new software platform, which… continue…
What Does Google Chromebook Momentum Mean for Windows?
What Does Google Chromebook Momentum Mean for Windows? (via slashdot) Hewlett-Packard is the latest PC manufacturer to jump into the Chromebook game, whipping the curtain back from a 14-inch device loaded with Google’s Chrome OS. Powered by a dual-core Intel Celeron processor, and touting roughly 4.25 hours of battery life, the HP Pavilion Chromebook follows in the… continue…
Microsoft’s Cloud Bet Continues with Office 365 Home Premium
Microsoft’s Cloud Bet Continues with Office 365 Home Premium (via slashdot) Microsoft has launched Office 365 Home Premium, a cloud-based suite of productivity tools with a $99.99-per-year subscription fee. The service is a streaming version of Office 2013, an updated version of Office that’s also going on sale today in 162 countries. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used the… continue…
How Windows XP Boots Take Years Off Your Life
Windows XP boots slowly. When it was released in 2001 by Microsoft, customers were demanding stability, not a speedy start-up. Besides, speed was relative and XP booted about as fast as WinNT or Windows Me. But now XP is a dinosaur and the iPad’s instant-on recalibrated expectations about how fast a computer should be ready to use after you turn it on. Depending on the number of applications set to launch, XP can take two, three or even five minutes to… continue…
Will Windows Blue Be Worth Waiting For?
A couple months back, I wrote about Microsoft’s Windows 8 launch and what I hoped was the company’s first step into the future. I also wondered whether Windows 8 wasn’t akin to Vista. It appears that I wasn’t entirely wrong. The scuttlebutt now is that Microsoft is working on a new Windows OS, codenamed Windows Blue, or Windows 9 Dev, which will be released at some point this year. It seems that this is the start of a series of… continue…
Windows Phone 8 Closes Out 2012 With Bigger App Store
Windows Phone 8 Closes Out 2012 With Bigger App Store (via slashdot) As 2012 comes to an end, Microsoft is still fighting to make Windows Phone a viable third-place competitor to Google Android and Apple’s iPhone. The launch of Windows Phone 8, the most advanced version of the smartphone platform, was meant to herald a new stage of competitiveness—but so far, Microsoft… continue…
About Windows 8: It’s the Interface, Stupid.
Microsoft has plenty of reasons to worry about Windows 8. Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars the company is spending on marketing, initial surveys of IT buyers suggest a reception that’s cool at best. Last quarter, about 24 percent of more than 1,200 North American and European hardware purchasers said they had no plans to migrate to Windows 8, though they expect they will at some point. David Johnson of Forrester Research, which conducted the survey, said only 4… continue…
Windows 8 is Schizophrenic for a Reason
All of Microsoft’s ruckus about its brand spanking new Windows 8 hides a basic truth: This is really two distinct operating systems sharing the same computer, and it’s most obvious during boot. A month ago, I upgraded an Asus Eee PC running Windows 7 Starter to Windows 8. When it boots I see the new Windows Logo, the login screen and then, for a split second, my old Windows 7 desktop and background before the Windows 8 background lays on… continue…
How Microsoft Touched Me
I got some hands-on with Windows 8 this week. While I won’t say I’m in Love, I’ll confess to being in heavy Like. In fact, it may be heavy enough for me to spend 40 bucks to upgrade from Windows 7 Home. I might also stop pestering Alice for an iPad and push for a Surface instead. (The 64 GB with the black type cover, to be specific.) This is not a small thing. If you don’t count the Morrow… continue…
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