Tag: windows 8
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Windows 9 is actually Windows 10
At an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Microsoft played a joke a on waiting world. Fully expecting Windows 9 to be announced, onlookers were left slightly confused when Microsoft announced their next big Windows project was going to be Windows 10. The reveal itself was not so much of a surprise with leaks of […]
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Leaked ‘Windows 9’ Screenshot Shows New Start Menu
A supposed leaked screenshot from Microsoft’s Windows 9 has offered a glimpse at the operating system’s Start menu. The image which was posted from the Threshold preview build of the software, shows the app blocks combined with the traditional interface. Windows 8 was for all intents and purposes Microsoft’s way of out and out shooting […]
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New Razer Blade gaming laptop packs a GTX 870M into its thin frame
In the wake of graphics behemoth NVIDIA launching its new mobile GPU the GTX 800M series, Razer has decided to cram the top spec GTX 870M inside an updated version of its thin Razer Blade gaming notebook. While the new NVIDIA GTX 870M GPU is certainly a key feature of the machine, its most appealing feature is probably the […]
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VLC Media Player for Windows 8 arrives in Beta
The popular all-singing, all-dancing video player comes to Windows 8 at long, long last…
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Windows XP draws its final breaths whilst Windows 8 gets an update
Microsoft announced a long time ago that it would be turning off support for its most successful operating system (if by successful you mean actually worked), Windows XP. The OS will no longer be supported as of April 8th. XP came out on October 25th, 2001 and over 400 million copies were in use in […]
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Windows 9 to be released in 2015 – here’s what we know
Critics of Microsoft’s Windows operating system say that the company is on an inadvertent tick-tock strategy – if one version of Windows is good (Windows XP), the next one will be bad (Vista). That’s certainly been borne out for Windows 8, which has been coolly received at best. Indeed, HP are currently running a “Windows […]
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Google sneaks Chrome OS into Windows 8
I love trying out new software, particularly new operating systems. I’ve run every version of Windows from 95 to 8.1, dozens of Linux distributions, and even got OS X running on most of my machines over the years. There’s one big – and growing – OS that I haven’t been able to try, though – […]
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Microsoft to launch Windows 9 launch in April 2015
Software giant to reveal its next major software version at this year’s Build developer conference…
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John Lewis to exclusively sell the Nokia Lumia 2520 in the UK
Back in October Nokia announced its first ever Windows RT running Lumia tablet in the form of the Nokia Lumia 2520, and since its announcement many fans in the UK have been wondering when they will be able to get their hands on the device. Well, Nokia and John Lewis have revealed that the tablet […]
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Nokia Lumia 1820 phone and 8-inch Lumia 2020 tablet rumoured for MWC 2014
Two new models suggested for February, including a metal flagship phone with a Lytro-like camera feature…
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Nokia launches its first ever tablet: The Nokia Lumia 2520 with Windows RT
Nokia’s first tablet is here, looking like a giant Lumia Windows Phone and hoping to take on Microsoft at its own game…
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Microsoft to unveil Surface RT 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets on September 23rd
Microsoft confirms new Surface devices with official invites to New York City event…