Windows 8 touch laptop prices are headed south. Way south, according to Intel executives. The price of Windows 8 touch devices, including laptops, will sink to price points that penetrate inexpensive tablet territory. These new "innovative" designs will be based on Intel's upcoming quad-core "Bay Trail" chip, Intel ...
Rumor: Next Windows 8 to Allow Booting Straight to Desktop
on 4.16.13
Microsoft is planning to change the way its Start Screen operates with the release of Windows 8.1. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed to The Verge that the company is currently testing builds of Windows 8.1, known as codename Windows Blue, that include an option to boot directly to the traditional ...
Microsoft Updates More Core Windows 8 Apps, Turns ‘News’ into Reader Replacement
on 4.15.13
Announced Monday morning, and partially released over the night, Bing’s AppEx team has updated six core Windows 8 applications: News, Weather, Finance, Travel, Sports, and Maps. These are among the applications that are pre-installed on Windows 8, meaning that they are present on north of 60 million computers that run ...
Steep PC Sales Decline Reveals Flaw in Experts’ Analysis
on 4.11.13
Despite ill omens, the IDC report about PC volume decline hitting -14% in the first quarter shows once again how much trouble the tech industry is having when it comes to dealing with the ongoing computer meltdown. As I wrote last December, IDC has been completely out to lunch about this key trend for years. In March of ...
Windows 8 Users Get Free Nook Books and Magazines with App Download
on 3.27.13
Barnes & Noble content and tablet subsidiary Nook Media, part-owned by Microsoft specifically to help boost content for its new Windows 8 platform, put some of that strategy into action: it has announced that people who download the Nook app for Windows 8 will get five books and five magazines free of charge. This is in ...
Microsoft Updates Key Windows 8 Apps: Mail, Calendar and People
on 3.26.13
Microsoft has tweaked its Mail, Calendar, and People apps for Windows 8 and RT users with some much-need improvements. The three core apps, which are bundled together, received some long overdue tweaks last night that make them a bit more user-friendly. But along with those improvements comes one negative: the Calendar app ...
Windows Store Unofficially Passes the 50,000 App Mark
on 3.25.13
MetroStore Scanner (MSS) indicates that the Windows Store has passed the 50,000 application mark. MSS, an unofficial tracker, has been generally accurate in the past. That said, treat the 50,000 number with caution, and keep in mind that not all apps will be available in your area. The growth of applications present in the ...
Microsoft Changes Course, Now Offers Developers $100 Per Windows 8 App
on 3.20.13
Up until last year, it seemed to be an unwritten (or maybe written) policy that the Windows client team wouldn't pay developers to write apps for Windows 8. But that edict seems to have been rescinded. Microsoft is now offering developers $100 for each Windows 8 and/or Windows Phone 8 app they write, up to a total of 10 ...
Windows Phone 8 Support Ending in 18 Months: The Silver Lining
on 3.19.13
There was a spate of Windows Phone scaremongering over the weekend, after speculation that the platform would be discontinued in mid-2014. This came about after it was noticed that Microsoft had published Windows Phone's support lifecycle, just as the company does with almost all its other software. Per Microsoft: Windows ...
Report: Google Now Coming to iOS, Chrome OS, Windows 8
on 3.13.13
Google Now is arguably the single best feature found in Android Jelly Bean, and soon, it seems, it may be coming to iOS, Windows 8 and Chromebooks everywhere. Google Now brings you search results before you even go looking for them. Just swipe up, inside of Google’s search app (or from any home screen on a Nexus 4, 7 or ...
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