Recent reports seem to indicate that the Windows development team has completed the first milestone build for Windows 8’s first big upgrade. This update has been dubbed Windows Blue and the milestone we’re hearing about appears to be the halfway point in its development schedule. At this rate it is expected to be finalized and [...]
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Since the official announcement of some of the basic pricing options expected to be available when Windows 8 launches, there’s been some confusion over how much the new System Builder license would cost. It’s an interesting idea that will help move customers away from picking up OEM copies of Windows for their home builds through [...]
The beta period for Windows 8 has been fairly impressive and surprisingly well polished so far. The Release Preview is already largely viable as a daily use operating system. That said, many have been eagerly anticipating the day when Microsoft would declare the software ready to be released. That milestone has now been achieved. As [...]
Our first glimpse of what the next version of Microsoft Office is going to look like on Windows RT was finally revealed during the keynote presentation at TechEd North America. TechEd is Microsoft’s big IT conference, drawing in developers for the purpose of keeping them educated and up to date on all the most important [...]
According to a blog post that was accidentally published for a few minutes by Chuck Chan (a Microsoft executive) late Wednesday night, Windows 8 Release Preview will become available for download today. This is several days earlier than was originally anticipated. I’ll update this post as soon as download links go live. Stay tuned! UPDATE [...]
While there is some question yet as to what the final feature set will include, given that all of our information at this time revolves around a pre-beta product, a set of slides has made its way out onto the web that details what the intended focus will be. Given the obvious Tablet applications of [...]
