It’s pretty common knowledge that in late 2012 the PC market made a general shift towards the “Touch” market, and Windows 8 was a pretty good product that catered towards this move. Seriously though, the PC desktop “Everyman” JUST got comfortable with Windows 7. Yet if they want to buy a new non-Touch PC with…
Windows 8 was released on October 26, 2012. Now, eight months and more than 100 million licenses later, Microsoft has released an update – Windows 8.1, or Windows Blue, as its been called. So what does this update bring to the table? Quite a lot, actually. Before a full release is made available in the…
Things are not turning out how Microsoft expected them to be this year, but the Redmond based company might feel a bit better to learn that its Surface line of tablets did outsell Google’s Nexus 10 tablet. This means that the future for Windows 8 in the tablet arena is not bleak, but it’s still…
To all those who have missed the Start button on their Windows 8 taskbars – there is good news. Microsoft is reportedly bringing back the Start menu button in the latest Windows update – Windows 8.1 Sources close to Microsoft have apparently told The Verge that the Start button will make a comeback in the…
Microsoft has recently lowered the logo requirements for any new Windows 8 devices, to let its partners build Windows 8 running devices with a bit lower resolutions. This move to lower the resolution requirements suggests that Microsoft is looking forward to jumping right into the smaller and cheaper tablet market; to compete against popular tablets…
Is This the End for PC’s? In 2010, John Herlihy, vice-president of Google‘s global ad operations, said smartphones would render PCs obsolete within 3 years. 2013 is here, but is the PC dead? Remember the early 2000s? A Desktop was the preferred choice for almost everyone’s computing needs, while the laptop was only the second…
Windows 8 Pro on Dual Boot – My Experience Over time, Windows tends to slow down and lag. Once it’s too much for you to bear, you re-install to make it run all smooth again. I’ve been running Windows 7 ultimate on a Lenovo G580 since July and my Windows installation had begun to crawl by December….