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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The Internet really isn’t as pornography-filled as you might think. In fact, according to one expert, only 42,337 of the one million most-trafficked websites online are offering sex-related content, which translates into somewhere around 4% of sites on the Internet.
That surprising figure—am I the only person who expected it to be …
Whoa, boy: Facebook surprised us all this afternoon when they announced on their blog that they were adding a whole bunch of improvements to your friends lists: automatically generated “smart lists,” the ability to separate people into “close friends” and “acquaintances,” and a better suggestions mechanism with the ability to control who …
On the eve of this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Nintendo held a conference to update consumers on their upcoming plans for the 3DS. The Nintendo 3DS Conference brought some good news, some surprising news and some bad news for folks tracking the roller coaster ride that the company’s newest dual-screen handheld has been on.
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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.
We’ll …
During the Mobile Forward Future event in Seattle, HTC America acting president Martin Fichter walked onstage and told the audience that kids don’t think Apple’s iPhone is “cool” anymore—according to the dorm mates of his daughter at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, anyway. He notes that he saw plenty of college students carrying …
According to a new survey by Nielsen, the most used app by men as indicated by metered device usage is—drumroll, please—Google Maps.
In taking a look at how many Android owners used an app in the past 30 days, the study found that 77.1% of males used Google Maps (disregarding the requisite Android Market app).
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Today’s Intel Developer Forum fastest processor in the world gold star goes to Int—I mean, AMD?
That’s right, AMD, Intel’s least-favorite chip-making rival, who apparently managed to jam prototype processing tech, incantations from a book of magic, a sacrificial dove and a bag of gilded runestones into a box to coax an AMD FX …
Your next Android tablet may well be dedicated to video games, and the company behind it’s arguably the one you’d least expect: GameStop. That’s right, the monster-sized video games retailer we’d probably have long since bid farewell, but for the company’s prescient move into the used games market, now responsible for over half its …
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss star in an ad for pistachios. The twins, you may recall, had been trying to sue Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg out of his casual jeans, ironic t-shirt and Adidas sandals for quite some time, claiming that he stole their idea. Someone made a movie about it!
And where there’s movies, there’s TV. And where …
