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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lately Microsoft has been releasing a handful of updates for its built-in Windows 8-style apps including Mail, Calendar, People, Xbox Games, SmartGlass and pretty much every other modern app designed by Microsoft, now is the turn of the Weather app. The new update was released on Sunday, June 28th, and includes a new interactive weather [...]
If you took the turn of installing Windows 8 yourself, instead of buying a brand new PC, you may get the error: “Windows 8 installation has failed”. What’s irritating about this problem is that it is a generic installation error, and it could be really hard to pinpoint the specific cause of the problem. Luckily [...]
I didn’t see it until I came across a screenshot of the new All Apps button with the arrow in Windows 8.1 build 9379. That is when I realized, Microsoft is bringing back the Start menu in Windows 8.1, just not in the same old design we all have seen in Windows 7 or in previous versions [...]
I really don’t mind, on the contrary, but at this point I’m honestly wondering if Microsoft is helping to leak all these Windows 8.1 builds to get a glance from users, if all the new changes are worth to include in the forthcoming Windows 8 upgrade. I previously wrote about the build 9369 leak and I noted [...]
A second Windows 8.1 build has leaked in different popular file sharing sites, and with it we now know a few more things are coming in the next upgrade of Microsoft’s operating system. To begin with Windows Blue build 9369 is the latest pre-beta version of Windows leaked online, it includes several tweaks, is a [...]
Windows 8 reimagined backfires Microsoft, take it with a grain of salt, but new information coming from Mary Jo Foley, a very reliable Microsoft watcher from ZDNet, is reporting that the software giant isn’t just bringing boot-to-desktop option, but it could also be considering bringing back the Start button in Windows 8.1 (Blue). Mary also emphasizes that [...]