2012-3
7

Windows 8 Store

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w8 store 150x150 Windows 8 StoreThe Windows 8 Consumer Preview, came packed with pre-installed Metro-style apps. These include Camera, Messaging, Mail, Calendar, SkyDrive, People, Photos, Video and Music and more.

From the Start screen you can go to the Windows Store. Here you can find familiar, new and popular apps. It is easy to discover new apps with New releases, Top free, Top paid, and All stars lists or you can even see a list of recommended Picks for you. You can also browse through the different categories. Apps are grouped together by type, making it easier to browse rather than searching directly. More »

2012-3
7

Start Button Removed From Windows 8

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images 150x150 Start Button Removed From Windows 8Microsoft has gotten rid of the start button from the latest build of Windows 8.  Screenshots of the new Windows 8 build display the “super bar,” but without the start button orb on the left, according to The Verge. Build 8220 will be the final version released before the beta, now known as the Consumer Preview, debuts before the end of the month. Until its untimely (or timely) death, the Windows 8 start button located in the Metro UI offered access to the search, share, devices, and settings panels. The Windows start button in the desktop simply returned you to the Metro UI. To replace the start button, Microsoft will reportedly turn that space into a hot corner, sources told The Verge. More »

2012-3
1

Windows 8 Consumer Preview Already Launched! Download and Try!

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windows 8 preview event 300x199 Windows 8 Consumer Preview Already Launched! Download and Try!Microsoft recently launched its Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Steven Sinofsky revealed that Microsoft has made over 100,000 major code changes to Windows 8 since the Developer Preview was released in September. 

Antoine Leblond, vice president of Windows Web Services, showed off how the OS ran on a typical computer with a mouse and desktop. Simple tasks like copying and pasting have been drastically improved in Windows 8.

Now, you can easily manage copying multiple files at once. He also showed how easy it is to move between the Windows 8 Explorer view back to the Start screen. Basically, it looks like you won’t miss the traditional Start button too much.  More »

2012-2
29

Windows 8 Consumer Preview is Finally Here!

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2012 02 17 windows logo 4 Windows 8 Consumer Preview is Finally Here!Microsoft finally compiled the public Windows 8 Consumer Preview build, 8250 (Beta version). The public release of the following build its scheduled for later today 29th February. Microsoft announced that they would unveil the Consumer preview version of Windows 8 today  during the Mobile World conference in Barcelona, Spain. The estimated time when Windows 8 consumer preview would be available for download is 3:00 PM (Barcelona local time ).  More »

2012-2
27

Windows 8 – Using the language you want

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With Windows 8, developers changed how Microsoft think about languages from a “local-market feature” to a “feature for everyone everywhere,” and have made it a priority for you to be able to work in any language you want, from any Windows 8 PC. If you can’t read the text that Windows presents to you, you can’t use Windows to its fullest potential. That’s why Microsoft is so excited to bring powerful, easy-to-use language features to more users than ever in Windows 8. More »

2012-2
20

Engineering Windows 8 for mobile networks

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People want similar mobility on their PCs as they get on their smartphones.

It is unlikely that your end goal is just to get connected to the Internet. Instead, connecting to the Internet is a step (or a hurdle) towards what you really want to do, like surf, socialize, or explore, and you would prefer that your PC is connected and ready for you to use whenever you want and wherever you are. More »

2012-2
15

Windows 8 PC hardware requirements

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There’s been much discussion about a Microsoft mandate for its new Windows 8 operating system, which requires that devices with ARM processors carry a controversial feature known as Secure Boot. This feature will limit the range of operating systems that can be used on the device. The information was discovered in an update to the ‘Windows 8 Hardware Certification Requirements’ documentation, published back in December. More »

2012-2
15

Refresh and reset your PC

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metro 150x150 Refresh and reset your PCMany consumer electronic devices these days provide a way for customers to get back to some predefined “good” state. This ranges from the hardware reset button on the back of a wireless network router, to the software reset option on a smartphone.

We’ve built two new features in Windows 8 that can help you get your PCs back to a “good state” when they’re not working their best, or back to the “factory state” when you’re about to give them to someone else or decommission them. More »

2011-12
21

Improving the setup experience

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Setup is something that gets a lot of attention from us in any Windows release. It needs to just work reliably across a huge number of variations of hardware and software. This is true whether you are upgrading your own laptop, or you’re an IT pro who is migrating 10,000 desktops in an enterprise using broad deployment tools. For Windows 7 our main focus was on improving successful install rates, and we did a lot of work to improve reliability and deal with many tough (but relatively rare) cases that had caused problems in setting up earlier versions of Windows. This work gave Windows 7 a more reliable setup experience than in any previous Windows release, as measured by lab testing, customer support incidents, and setup telemetry. More »

2011-12
21

Designing search for the Start screen

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Evolution of searching from Start

The search box in the Start menu as we know it today first made its appearance in Windows Vista. It became easy for users to search for programs or apps, settings, and files on the desktop and in personal folders like Documents, Pictures, Music, and Videos. The search experience aggregated different types of results in one view with programs and settings combined in a single group. The results of a query displayed a small set of items in heuristically sized groups. You needed to click “See all results” to see the rest in Windows Explorer, which aggregated everything into one ungrouped and unsorted view. More »