We’ve first seen the new Microsoft’s Windows 8 Modern user interface back in September of 2011, but at almost a month after the official launch of the operating system, the software giant is showing off early designs (or mockups) to the public of how they visualized the future of Windows back in 2010. Jensen Harris, [...]
In a new announcement at the Building Windows 8 blog, Steven Sinofsky detailed that Windows 8 is getting treatment updates before General Availability, that is October 26th. According to Sinofsky, the new updates will improve performance, power management and battery efficiency, compatibility and media playback. These new Windows updates are available today for users currently running the [...]
Getting closer to the official release of Windows 8 to the public on October 26th, Microsoft is getting ready to push new updates to its line of Windows Store apps. In a new article from the Building Windows 8 Blog, the company talks about several new improvements on performance and reliability in all the Microsoft’s Windows [...]
Microsoft seems satisfied with the work done and has announced that Windows 8 development is now complete. The next step for the company is to ship the final Release to Manufacture (RTM) build in the coming days to partner companies to start building Windows PCs and mobile devices with the new OS and have them ready [...]
Microsoft showed off the power of the new People app in Windows 8 connecting with many online services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and different email accounts. And how the app can organize contacts information from multiple sources in one single place, always up to date and connected to the cloud ready to roam with [...]
Windows 8 brings a game-changer operating system, this time around the traditional Start menu has been removed and replaced with the beautiful and immersive Start screen. But since there isn’t a contextual menu anymore in the new Start screen, you may be asking yourself: How do I run programs as administrator? Well, it’s pretty easy, [...]
If you were running Windows 7 and you upgraded to any of the preview releases of Windows 8, and you did not reformat (erase) your hard drive during the installation, you are still able to retrieve files from the previous operating system by looking into the Windows.old folder. You see, by default, Windows during upgrades [...]
Once you’ve created a storage space, your media library: music, movies, photos, and files, will continue to expand, and although virtualizing the ever-growing collection of USB drives will help you, not only to prevision available capacity and to keep files organized, but also to keep your precious memories protected from hardware failure. And for all this to [...]
Microsoft added better video and audio file format support in Windows 8. Most common media formats are supported and some are limited in Windows RT — for devices like the new Microsoft’s Surface tablet. So far Windows 8 is promising to be a pretty amazing operating system with a hand full of new features, new [...]
Storage Spaces is a new feature in Windows 8 that allows you to group many physical disks together into a storage pool to then create a large storage space (or virtual disk); most importantly, you can use them like any other drive and you don’t have to worry in which drive you save your files; all is in [...]