Tag: Microsoft
Samsung Series 5 ULTRA PC Marries Touchscreen and Windows 8
At IFA in Berlin August 29, Samsung introduced the new Samsung Series 5 ULTRA PC with a 13.3-inch touchscreen display and running Windows 8 in an ultrabook design. It only seems natural to now add touchscreen displays to notebooks with the huge popularity of tablets and touchscreen desktop all-in-one systems. The Samsung Series 5 ULTRA PC comes [...]
Samsung Announces Series 7 and Series 5 Slate PCs
Samsung introduced many new products at their media event as part of the IFA trade show in Berlin on August 29, showing off new Samsung Slate PCs including the Samsung Series 5 and Samsung Series 7 slate PCs running Windows 8 and coming with a keyboard dock and stylus for handwriting and inking. As Samsung says, [...]
8 Things I Like About Windows 8
I’ll admit I’m not a fan of Windows 8 on the computer, but it looks like a nice operating system for tablets. However, Windows 8 isn’t all bad. Despite sharing the 8 things I hate about Windows 8, I do like some things about the latest Windows operating system. Here are 8 things I like [...]
8 Things I Hate About Windows 8
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 [...]
Students Get a Free Xbox 360 with $699 Notebook Purchase
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 [...]
Microsoft Updates Office for Windows and Mac with Important Security Fixes
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 [...]
Windows XP Will Reach Its End Of Life In April of 2014, Vista In 2017
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 [...]
Windows 8 Consumer Preview Coming This Month
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 [...]
Kinect For Windows Starts Shipping Today, SDK Ready For Download
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 [...]
Microsoft, Enough With The Ribbon Already
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 [...]
