An eerie, throbbing shade of blue. How all those times my heart beat a little faster when I saw that screen emerge in the middle of trying to multitask between YouTube, Scrabble, Woot and World of Warcraft. Alas, we will soon say goodbye to our dear friend, the good old Windows “Blue Screen of Death” as we currently know it.
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I’ve been optimistic about Windows 8 ever since Microsoft revealed a glimpse of the operating system in June, and that hasn’t changed now that I’ve played around with the developer build on a prototype tablet.
But not everything’s peachy with Windows 8. With the caveat that the software I’ve seen is an early build that’s subject to …
On Tuesday, Microsoft showed off the first tablets running Windows 8, and provided a bunch of new details about the operating system. I’ve already ogled the hardware, so now let’s look at the big takeaways from the Windows 8 software, at least from what Microsoft has disclosed so far. Here’s what you need to know:
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After a trickle of Windows 8-related information, Microsoft officially opened up the floodgates during the keynote of its 2011 “Build” conference. Here are 50 images of the recently-revealed Windows 8 user interface, features and related hardware devices.
All images from Microsoft unless otherwise noted…
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Hello Windows 8, so nice to finally meet you—and Microsoft certainly helped us get acquainted at today’s Windows 8 developer presentation. We learned about the new touch-driven interface, how it runs on ARM as well as Intel processors, how Microsoft’s going to control application approval and, of course, how it all connects to the …
Microsoft is getting serious about tablets with Windows 8, and we’ve got hard proof. Pictured above, and in the slides that follow, is the first tablet running Windows 8, built by Samsung. It’s just a prototype, and may never hit store shelves in its current form (a version of this hardware will launch as a Windows 7 tablet), but it …
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We know a little bit about Windows 8 already, but only a little bit. Today at 12pm ET, Microsoft is holding a keynote at its BUILD conference in Anaheim—and by the time it’s over, odds are that we’ll have a pretty good idea of the operating system upgrade’s overarching aims, feature highlights, and potential pitfalls.
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Microsoft’s got a big week ahead at its Build conference, where the company is expected to drop lots of new details about Windows 8. Ostensibly, the conference is a place for application developers to learn about Microsoft’s new software, but for the rest of us, it’ll hopefully be a place to get some key details and hands-on time with …
Since I can’t turn on my laptop with the power of my mind, I guess I’ll have to live with waiting for it to boot up. You know, for eight seconds. It might be seven-and-a-half seconds too long, but since I can’t expect my phone to also cook, wash my clothes and let me travel into the future, I might have to recalibrate my …
As we wait for Windows 8 to amble its way into the market, we’ll be fed teaser posts and screenshots for what seems like an eternity. That’s all part of the fun, though. On that note, Microsoft’s Building Windows 8 blog recently took the wraps off of the upcoming operating system’s revamped “Windows Explorer” features—you know, the
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Specs aren’t everything, but Microsoft has our attention after teasing a quad-core tablet at its Tech Ed conference in New Zealand, especially because this beastly slate might run Windows 8.
Microsoft didn’t say much about the hardware at the conference, Smarter Geek reports. Jeff Johnson, the company’s enterprise strategist, merely …
As Apple’s iPad threatens to gobble up PC market share, Microsoft may be moving faster than expected on Windows 8.
An anonymous source tells ZDNet‘s Mary Jo Foley that Microsoft’s shooting for an April 2012 release to manufacturing for Windows 8, which will accommodate tablets with a touch-based shell on top of the familiar Windows …
