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There's much to like about Microsoft's Windows 8 hybrid tablet-laptop - but it's expensive if you don't need all the specs Microsoft created a stir when it unveiled its first two tablets - Surface RT and Surface Pro - at a mystery press conference in Los Angeles on 19 June last year.

A recently aired Microsoft ad pits a tablet running the company's Windows 8 against the iPad, with the spot featuring an unlikely narrator: Apple's Siri virtual assistant.

Once upon a time, the only way to communicate with people living overseas was to write a note, stuff it into a bottle and throw the thing into the ocean.

Hortonworks is shipping a Windows edition of its big data platform, a move channel partners say will help them meet customer demands for Windows-based big data applications.

On the official Microsoft Blog, Editor Jeff Meisner said last month that, "A year from now will mark the final milestone for Windows XP - that of its end of support date." Starting on April 8th, 2014 Microsoft will no longer provide any type of support, updates, tech support for the now 11 year old operating system.

Dear Lifehacker, I have a couple old PC games from the Windows 95 days that I'd like to keep playing.

Windows 8's look and feel is still a flop with consumers, especially with those who don't use tablets, two studies say.

Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves.

At this point, there is no way to update AMD graphics drivers without removing the old software before installing the new software.

In conjunction with the Windows Vista's launch, the British Library launched an online program called "Turning the Pages 2.0" that lets people browse through virtual versions of two Leonardo da Vinci notebooks using some of the underlying graphics technology in the new operating system.

Ever since Redmond-based Microsoft introduced their latest operating system, Windows 8 , there has been much grumbling about the radical change, confusion on how to find your way around on the new system and bad promotion.

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After installing BlackBerry Link on a Windows XP based computer, the time to load web pages using Internet Explorer may increase.

Whether you love or hate Microsoft Windows 8, it's hard to deny that it's a radical departure from what we've come to expect from the most popular desktop operating system on the planet.

Acer's Iconia W3 is the second coming of Ultra Mobile PCs, only this time, there's a touch-friendly user interface.

I attended the annual BlackBerry conference this week, and had a nice chat with the folks that make their QNX operating system.

"Windows is still the standard, but it doesn't look like Windows 8 is going to have the same penetration as Windows XP and Windows 7 had," said analyst Brad Shimmin.

Our organization still has a sizable number of Windows XP machines due to legacy application compatibility issues.

Windows 8 faces an uphill battle to become a standard corporate operating system because many businesses are in the midst of or have recently completed the move from Windows XP to Windows 7 and don't have the stomach for another transition anytime soon.

Dieses Original Microsoft Praxistraining, bestehend aus Buch + E-Book, richtet sich an alle IT-Experten, die ihre Supportkenntnisse von Microsoft Windows 8 in einer Unternehmensumgebung erweitern wollen.