Microsoft will let users try a near-final version of Windows 8 starting the first week of June.
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Windows 8 Versions: The News Is Mostly Good
For years, it’s been fashionable to complain that Windows comes in too many versions, resulting in unneccesary complexity and confusion. Here’s a 2003 Cnet story by Joe Wilcox which reports on controversy over Windows XP’s …
Next Up: New iPad vs. Windows 8
Apple CEO Tim Cook spent much of Wednesday’s new iPad event reminding everyone in the audience of just how wildly successful the iPad has been. It was hard to accuse him of hubris, though. As Dizzy Dean said, it ain’t bragging if …
Windows 8 Consumer Preview: A Power User’s Perspective
Forget all of Microsoft’s hoopla about Windows 8‘s new Metro interface. If you’re a power user who relies on lots of legacy software, you’ll still be spending most of your time with the classic Windows desktop. That’s …
Windows 8 Consumer Preview: One Step Closer to the PC’s Future
Last September, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 in public for the first time. One glance at the operating-system upgrade–heavily influenced by the company’s inventive Windows Phone–was enough to tell you that it was the most …
OnLive Desktop Plus: Windows at Its Speedy Best — on Your iPad
Last month, cloud gaming pioneer OnLive put its sophisticated technology to a new purpose: running Windows 7 on an iPad. It launched OnLive Desktop, a free service that let you use Word, Excel and PowerPoint–the real, …
Windows 8’s Logo Is a Snoozer? Good!
It figures. I wrote a post about Windows 8 that included the current Windows logo, a fancy multicolored-waving-window-thingie-hovering-inside-a-glossy-circle. And then, shortly after pressing “Publish,” I read a Microsoft blog …
Is Windows for ARM a Dead End?
Over at Cult of Mac, John Brownlee has an in-depth explanation of why it seems unlikely that Apple intends to ditch the Intel chips inside Macs for ARM-based ones akin to the processors it uses in the iPhone and iPad. His …
The Windows Start Button Is Dead! Long Live the Windows Start Button!
Is Microsoft eliminating the Start button–a user-interface element that’s practically synonymous with Windows itself–from Windows 8? Last week, that was the scuttlebutt. This week, Windows superblogger Paul Thurrott says that “ …
Why We Need a New Definition of ‘PC’
It’s time to update our perceptions about a decades-old device that’s evolving more rapidly than ever.
5 Kinect Windows Apps I’d Like to See
Now that Kinect hardware is available for Windows, app developers can get busy bringing voice and motion control to desktop PCs. Microsoft is already working on Kinect Windows apps with hundreds of partners, including American …
Windows 8 Beta May Arrive in February
The chance to try Windows 8 in beta form may be just a couple months away.
Citing “sources close to Microsoft,” The Next Web reports that Microsoft will launch a public beta of Windows 8 in late February. However, it’s not …