September 20, 2011
I was shocked to find out that no one had put up the Samsung developer preview tablet on ebay yet. Someone finally has and it is a testiment to how awesome Windows 8 is that it even took so long. The tablet right now is going for US $2,025.00 with 5 days left! I know […]
Tags: Build, Developer, ebay, Microsoft, samsung, samsung Tablet, Windows 8News
September 18, 2011
The burning question…Is Microsoft setting up Windows 8 to have cell phone capabilities? Things seem to be leaning toward yes on this one. istartedsomething noticed a really interesting thing, on one of Microsoft’s slides from Build 2011. The slide shows the Windows 8 tiles and one of the tiles shows missed calls and another […]
Tags: build 2011, Microsoft, phone calls, tablet, text messages, Windows 8, Windows Phone, WP7News
September 16, 2011
I attempted to run Windows 8 on an old Dell laptop running Vista. That was no fun as the DVD tray was shot and I had no other alternatives at the time. Thanks to this very easy rundown by mobility digest on how to get Windows 8 to dualboot, I will be trying this all […]
Tags: Dual Booting, Easy, How To, Microsoft, Windows 8How To
September 16, 2011
Now this is just pure genius and I applaud Microsoft for doing such a great ob with this. Microsoft is introducing Windows To Go with Windows 8. You can literally run the whole OS from a USB drive. The most impressive part though is that when you pull out the USB drive while having docs […]
Tags: Demo, Microsoft, Windows 8, Windows To GoNews
September 16, 2011
Yesterday, we went through the feature of cross-platform gaming on Windows 8 with Windows Phone. It’s an amazing feature and one that should benefit all the products involved. We only had images to work with before but now wp7app.de has kindly uploaded a video showing us an actual demo of the cross-platform gaming taking place. […]
Tags: Cross-Platform, Games, Gaming, Tanks, Video, Windows 8, Windows PhoneNews
September 15, 2011
The features just keep on rolling in for Windows 8. Before Build closed its doors today, Microsoft showed off Xbox Live for Windows 8. Xbox Live is a HUGE service on Xbox 360 but imagine that service on over half a billion computers all over the world. This is not only a win for Windows […]
Tags: Games, Microsoft, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox LiveNews
September 15, 2011
Since Windows 8 is still in Pre-Beta, we can look at this video comparison as just that. Already though in my opinion Windows 8 is looking way better than iPad. I love its clean look and the way that it really makes doing things a lot easier. Is it me or is IOS looking really […]
Tags: IOS, Metro UI, Video, windows, Windows 8News
September 15, 2011
Some critics were commenting on how Microsoft lacked showing off Windows 8 on ARM. Well here you go, a nice clear video demo of Windows 8 running on an ARM processor. I honestly cannot wait till I can actually go into a store and purchase one of these babies. Hopefully it will be in a NYC […]
Tags: Arm Processor, qualcomm, Snapdragon, Windows 8News
September 15, 2011
Even though Microsoft has not mentioned the iPad nor the word tablet throughout their presentations this week. Everyone else is talking about this future vs matchup against the iPad. Some even calling Windows 8 the iPad killer. You can say what you will about which you think is or will be better but this image […]
Tags: ipad, Microsoft, OS, Tablets, Windows 8News
September 15, 2011
Windows 8 means a lot of things to a lot of people. For gamers, Windows 8 is a big deal because of the fact that Xbox Live will be embedded into the system. Another fact though that was revealed yesterday was that people playing on Windows 8 will be able to play with or against […]
Tags: Cross-Platform, Games, Gaming, Tanks, Windows 8, Windows PhoneGames, News