Windows Blue might be the biggest thing in the news right now, giving us any number of new features to look forward to, but that’s a bit in the future yet. In more immediate news, we’re finally getting updates to some of Microsoft’s own entries in the Windows Store. Not everything has been hit just [...]
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After months of waiting and wondering when they would finally get something in the store, Twitter has released their official app for Windows 8. Unlike several similarly-anticipated releases, this one seems to have been worth the wait in most ways! All of the features that you might be familiar with from other official Twitter apps [...]
While Microsoft sees the possibilities of their new “Metro” UI as an advertising platform to be simply a matter of course at this point, customers are beginning to notice and complain about their presence in all of the preinstalled applications that have been included in their Windows 8 installations. There does seem to be a [...]
With the release of Windows 8 to the public, it’s been interesting to track the most popular apps in the Store. This is the first time there has really been a solid bridge between the tablet and desktop application environments and so it could have taken us by surprise somehow. Realistically that could still happen [...]
With the release of Windows 8 comes a whole new app ecosystem. Naturally, Amazon can’t really be leaving that alone for too long. Despite its detractors, Windows 8 seems to be off to a strong start and ongoing adoption will be a steady stream of users at the very least. To accommodate these users and [...]
We all know by this point that the real draw for any platform is the available content. Just like you wouldn’t want to pay a new satellite TV provider full price for a dozen channels and the promise of more to come, you don’t want to invest in a device or operating system that only [...]
As much as they aren’t the first thing you think of when considering the potential in Windows 8, the apps that shipped with the Release Preview are by far the most obvious indication of how far things have come. They don’t all work perfectly yet, but in many ways they are exactly what they need [...]
In keeping with the emphasis on Windows 8’s ability to restore itself to its default state at a moment’s notice, should the situation demand, they have spent a fair amount of time playing up the importance of the SkyDrive program. Taking a page out of Dropbox’s book, SkyDrive’s current implementation allows users to store up [...]
