November 12, 2012
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HP isn’t supporting consumer PCs downgrades from Windows 8 to Windows 7. However, the company has clarified that, if you do change operating systems anyway, your consumer Windows 8 PCs will still be under warranty . It’s been a confusing few … Continue reading
November 8, 2012
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PC companies call it downgrading, but many users just call it being sensible. You buy a new computer, and instead of using the bleeding edge operating system it came with, you move to an operating system you trust. With ordinary … Continue reading
October 31, 2012
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“Boo!” Microsoft has just been sued by a heretofore little-known operating system technology firm, SurfCast for its use of tiles in Windows 8’s Microsoft Design Language interface, a.k.a. Metro. SurfCast, based out of Portland, Maine, claims to have been the … Continue reading
October 25, 2012
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Ed Bott “enthusiastically recommends” the Windows Surface RT.” I think it’s already dead. Oddly enough, we agree on the main point, “It’s more than an iPad, and less than a PC.” Where we differ is what that means. He sees it … Continue reading
October 16, 2012
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One of the attractions of Windows RT tablets to business was to have been that it was coming with a baked-in version of Office 2013. And, so it will, it’s just that you may, or may not, be able to … Continue reading
October 15, 2012
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October 25th is the official release date for Windows 8, but I, for one, have no intention of “upgrading” to Windows 8 from Windows 7 or XP. Indeed, I still think XP SP3 is one of the best versions of … Continue reading