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8 Things I Hate About Windows 8

8 Things I Hate About Windows 8

| May 24, 2012 | 0 Comments

I installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview today and tested it out on my MacBook Pro via Parallels. If you own Parallels you can easily do the same by creating a new machine in the Parallels wizard. It includes the Windows 8 Consumer Preview as one of the optional operating systems. After using the consumer preview [...]

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Students Get a Free Xbox 360 with $699 Notebook Purchase

Students Get a Free Xbox 360 with $699 Notebook Purchase

| May 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

Beginning May 20, students going back to school can get a steal on an Xbox 360 when they buy a qualifying Windows PC for $699 or more. I say a steal because, you’ll feel like your stealing since the 4GB Xbox 360 is free. That’s right! Get a free Xbox 360 with a band new [...]

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Microsoft Updates Office for Windows and Mac with Important Security Fixes

Microsoft Updates Office for Windows and Mac with Important Security Fixes

| May 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

Microsoft just patched their Word 2003 and 2007 for Windows and Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2012 for Mac to fix what they called “extremely important issues”. These security patches will bring your version of Office for Mac 2008 to 12.3.3 or Office for Mac 2011 to 14.2.2. Microsoft explained that the security flaw [...]

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Windows XP Will Reach Its End Of Life In April of 2014, Vista In 2017

Windows XP Will Reach Its End Of Life In April of 2014, Vista In 2017

| February 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

Not everyone gets to know the exact date they’re going to die and most people don’t want to know. But millions of computers worldwide are staring a kind of death right in the face. In just over two years Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP. On April 8, 2014, to be exact. That doesn’t mean [...]

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Coming This Month

Windows 8 Consumer Preview Coming This Month

| February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

The Microsoft Windows 8 Developer preview has been underway since September of 2011, and now it looks like Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. A new page on Bing.com shows a video of a beta fish swimming through a tank filled with Windows 8 links, including an invitation to [...]

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Kinect For Windows Starts Shipping Today, SDK Ready For Download

Kinect For Windows Starts Shipping Today, SDK Ready For Download

| February 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

At CES Microsoft head Steve Ballmer announced that the company would release a version of the popular Kinect sensor for Windows machines. Just as promised the units . Currently it costs $249 but an educator version with a $100 discount will apparently come out later. What can you do with a Kinect for Windows? Not [...]

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Microsoft, Enough With The Ribbon Already

Microsoft, Enough With The Ribbon Already

| January 31, 2012 | 5 Comments

It’s good to know that in this age of immediate and easy customer feedback that there are still companies that steadfastly refuse to listen to the people who have to use their products. Case in point: Microsoft. The Verge pointed to this post on the Microsoft Developers Network blog that talks about the many changes [...]

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Will Your Next Notebook Have Kinect Built In?

Will Your Next Notebook Have Kinect Built In?

| January 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

Microsoft’s Kinect has been a huge hit in the living room, bringing accurate motion and voice based controls to the Xbox 360. This is great for games, but what about work? The Daily got an early look at these Kinect notebook prototypes, which look to be modified Asus netbooks with Kinect Sensors to bring the power [...]

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Microsoft Office 2011 Updated with Security and Bug Fixes

Microsoft Office 2011 Updated with Security and Bug Fixes

| December 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

Microsoft offered up an update for Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac that patches some security holes in the office suite. According to the MS website: “This update fixes critical issues and also helps to improve security. It includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with [...]

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Windows Beta 8 Coming Soon: What to Expect

Windows Beta 8 Coming Soon: What to Expect

| December 7, 2011 | 0 Comments

There were rumors that the beta of Microsoft Windows 8 would be coming early next year, most likely in February on the heals of CES. Microsoft has confirmed that timetable. Microsoft released what they called a developer preview earlier this year that showed off the new Metro User Interface that resembles it’s phone operating system. Instead [...]

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