On Tuesday Microsoft finally made available for download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 after many months on the making. The new web browser shares all the same technologies as the version of IE10 in Windows 8 and Windows RT, but with the exception of the modern chromeless UI with the distinctive URL bar at [...]
A new update on Windows Blue: Internet Explorer 11 is coming. We’ve previously seen information on the next version feature-pack update that the software giant is getting ready to release later this year floating on the internet. Prior leaked even showed the NT kernel bumped up to version 6.3 indicating that this is a big [...]
It appears that Google wants users to get more familiar with Chrome OS with the release of the “Chrome app launcher” for its popular web browser in all major platforms, which is sort of a new Start menu, but only for Chrome apps. Google says that users will have the same experience as the app [...]
For users wanting to enjoy Android OS and apps on Windows, options were limited. The only good stable alternative until recently was Bluestack, but that is about to change with WindowsAndroid. The guys at Socketeq successfully made it possible to natively run Google’s mobile OS into the Windows kernel. This means that now Android can run inside of [...]
If you use Skype for Windows desktop application, the next time you update, you will find that Microsoft has added new integration for Outlook 2013 or 2010. The new features includes instant messaging, call support and video messaging. The three new features are well-blend into the email application, there isn’t anything that shouts “Skype”, but [...]
Did you ever wonder why Microsoft choose the name “Windows” for its operating system? This happened in 1983 and there were some interested alternative such as “Microsoft Desktop” and “Interface Manager” that if they would have used one of those names, I really don’t know if we would have been using this OS. Watch the [...]
Confirmed! Windows 8 Release Preview is scheduled to be released the first week of June. Microsoft made the announcement at the Windows 8 Developer Days conference in Japan. When the final version of Windows 8 will be released? This still uncertain, but knowing that everything is on track, we could expect a final version by [...]
In this Windows How-To article you are going to learn the step-by-step instructions to hide certain hard drives that you specified from showing up in My Computer and from the Windows Explorer to keep your data a little bit safer. There are times when people have only one computer and they have to share it with [...]
After Kinect for Windows introduction back in 2011, Microsoft now has announced that the commercial availability of the hardware and software package is going to be available in early 2012 — to be more specific February 1st –, the company made the official announcement in CES last night. At first the Kinect for Windows hardware and software [...]
In this Windows How-To you’ll learn how to enable God Mode on Windows. And this method of accessing the operating system settings is compatible with Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Before getting started, do you know what Windows God Mode is? God Mode is a mode on Windows that you enable by creating [...]