Tag: Metro
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Microsoft Announces Hotmail is to Become Outlook.com
Hotmail is to change yet again as Windows 8 looms on the horizon…
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Windows 8 App Store Revealed Ahead of Launch
Looking to get Windows 8? This is where you’ll be getting your free and paid apps from…
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Microsoft Reveals Office 2013, Customer Preview Now Available
Microsoft’s Office 2013 update is now official, and keen users can get hands-on with the consumer preview…
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Microsoft to Rebrand Hotmail as ‘Newmail’ With Metro for Windows 8
Microsoft’s popular email client to get a new name and look in time for Windows 8…
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Now Available to Download for Everyone
Microsoft has just finished giving an extensive demonstration of its new Windows 8 operating system at the Mobile World Congress. In doing so, it has also launched the Consumer Preview, which means anyone can now download Windows 8 to try it out. The Redmond, Washington, company demonstrated how its revamped operating system can work smoothly…
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Microsoft Unveils New Windows 8 Logo
Microsoft has just unveiled its design for the latest version of the Windows operating system.The software giant tasked designers at Pentagram to come up with a brand new design for Windows, and below is the final result they delivered. Those of you that are fans and frequent users of the operating system may notice that…
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Windows Phone 8 Details Leaked then Confirmed
Last night, an internal Microsoft video leaked onto the web, causing quite a stir. The video is of Windows Phone Manager Joe Belfiore demonstrating the features of Windows Phone 8, and was intended for its hardware partners Nokia. We’ve only recently upgraded to Windows Phone 7.5 aka Mango, and Windows Phone 8 is still a…
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New Xbox Dashboard Brings Video Playback Issues
According to reports, it would appear that there are a number of unhappy 360 owners who are saying that since updating to the latest dashboard, they have now noticed that when watching videos, the colour appears to be washed out. Gaming site Eurogamer received a number of emails from frustrated users, so decided to do…
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Windows 8 for PCs and Laptops Landing in February 2012
The general public will get a chance to try out Windows 8 for the first time in late February 2012, when Microsoft plans to launch the first public beta of the new operating system. The Next Web quotes sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans, who have confirmed to the tech news site that Microsoft has…
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App of the Day: Spotify for Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)
As of today the official Spotify application is available to download to Windows Phones from the Marketplace, bringing offline playlists, the latest tracks and music streaming on the go to thousands of phones. Windows Phone is the last major operating system to get the Spotify app, but now it is a free app for Spotify…
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Microsoft drops Flash from IE on Windows 8 tablet
Microsoft have announced in a blog post that one of the web’s most widely used technologies for viewing content rich websites is going to be absent from some versions of Windows 8. The software giant is to drop Adobe Flash from the web browser used on the Metro interface of Windows 8. However, Flash will…
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Morrisons Offering Nintendo 3DS for £120 Starting Tomorrow!
Price Crash! UK supermarket Morrisons are going to be offering the Nintendo 3DS at a ridiculously cheap price of £120 starting tomorrow, giving you a saving of £65. Nintendo had already announced that the 3DS would be getting a fairly hefty price cut to encourage more to get into 3D gaming, but this appears to…