In an effort to keep educating users on how to navigate Windows 8, Microsoft has just made available the “Windows 8 End User Training Brochure”. This is a Windows 8 user guide that includes 36 pages, full-colored, on how to navigate the new Metro-style user interface (Charms, Start screen, and more) with the mouse and [...]
Adobe Photoshop Express just made its way to the Windows Store. Now Windows 8 and Windows RT (including Surface) users can add an extra touch to their photos for free. One thing to make clear with Adobe Photoshop Express is that this is not Photoshop Touch, which is another product specifically designed for mobile devices [...]
Let’s have some fun with this new theme of desktop wallpapers for Windows. It’s called Delectable Designs theme and it contains 13 very colorful images of cupcakes, cookies, donuts, popsicles, as well as coffee pots and mugs. These yummy illustrations are designed by Karyn Servin and perhaps will result in a sweet temptation for a [...]
If you haven’t heard WebP is a new image file format designed for the web and developed by Google. It is also an open-source royalty-free compression technology that derivates from the video format VP8 that will help to make the web better and faster in desktop computers, but mobile devices are the ones that will [...]
The Windows 8 upgrade assistant tool makes it a lot easier than in previous versions to install the new operating system, but if during the upgrade process you choose to format the hard drive, you will lose the ESD folder, which contains the OS installation files. This is a problem, because if you didn’t create [...]
Although Microsoft is now fully focus on finishing and releasing Windows 8.1 later this year, the company still keeps releasing regular firmware updates for Surface RT and Surface with Windows 8 Pro. The Patch Tuesday that the company is rolling out today is a series of updates to address low speaker volume and to improve system [...]
Today Microsoft has confirmed that the upcoming update, Windows 8.1, will be available for free for current users running Windows 8 and Windows RT, including Surface. And also the company has officially confirmed that Windows 8.1 will be the official name of the update, in the past also known as “Windows Blue”. The announcement was [...]
So you installed Microsoft Office 2013 and now you’ve got a new context menu item: “SkyDrive Pro”, when you right-click a file, that is gray out, right? Although, this is not a big issue, it is a little annoying to have the option listed, when you don’t actually have the feature. Honestly, this is a pointless [...]
The report is in: Microsoft is saying today that the company has just passed the 100 million Windows 8 license sold. The number reflects the amount of licenses sold in the first 6 months period of the life of the operating system since its release back in October, 2012. And the software giant is also [...]
We’re getting closer to the Public Preview of Windows 8.1, the last leak, build 9385, provided us with further insights of new improvements and features such as a new desktop auto scaling settings, the Internet Explorer 11 Developer Tools, Microsoft upgrading PowerShell to version 4 and much more. In addition to all the changes we [...]