Here is a reminder for those who purchased a new Windows 7 PC between June 2nd, 2012 and January 31st, 2013. Microsoft is ending on Thursday, February 28th, the Windows Upgrade Offer and you have until then to register and get the promo code to purchase the Windows 8 Pro Upgrade digital download for $14.99. After [...]
Microsoft Press just made available a free 68-page PDF Surface “Getting Started Guide” for anyone who wants to learn how to use the Surface Pro as well as Surface RT. The guide also includes the basics on how to start using Windows 8 on the device. The instructional guide will help Surface owners to setup [...]
Panos Panay, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, and the Surface development team answered many user’s submitted questions in an Ask Me Anything chat in Reddit regarding the upcoming release of Surface Pro, as they did back in October with the release of Surface RT. This time around they talked about very important points such as battery [...]
If you’re still wondering, here is the poof that Surface with Windows 8 Pro battery will only last just over 4 hours. A Reddit user (BryanTheCrow) had a chance to demo the new Surface Pro and took an interesting picture of the tablet that clearly shows the power options set to “Windows Demo” power plan, which also displays [...]
Microsoft just announced that starting February 1st will offer students Windows 8 Pro upgrade for $69.99 via the online Microsoft Store. The offer will be available in the U.S. and in 49 additional countries the offer will arrive in March 19th. This is a good news for many users, because as you may know by [...]
The Windows 8 upgrade pricing promotion that Microsoft started last year is coming to an end on January 31st. And the company is now announcing the new regular pricing for its operating system starting February 1st 2013. Microsoft promotion, which began back in October 2012, let people buy Windows 8 Pro upgrade for $39.99 (online) [...]
The second coming: Back in June 2012, Microsoft said that Surface Pro tablet will come just three months after the launch of the ARM-based Surface RT. Now we are getting closer to the promised date and while the company has skipped CES this year, the final design of the device made it to the show-floor [...]
After only a month of the release of Microsoft’s Surface with Windows RT, the company has just announced that Surface with Windows 8 Pro would be available sometime in January 2013 and here are prices for the two upcoming versions: Surface Pro with 64GB will cost $899 and the 128GB version will cost $999. As expected either version of [...]
With Microsoft finally making Surface with Windows RT available for pre-order, now many future users of this device may be thinking if they should buy the ARM-based version or if they should wait until the Windows 8 Pro version comes out next year — in about three months? The decision between the two should not be [...]
Microsoft has just released its first official commercial with a broken countdown to promote Windows 8 release launch date 10.26.12. The video that you can see above, and the first one you’ll watch on your TV, focus on showing how flexible and adaptive the new OS can be by demonstrating PCs, tablets, and touch enabled devices. As the [...]