Microsoft just unveiled its next operating system, which it has decided to call Windows 10 instead of Windows 9. According to The Verge, Microsoft designed the new operating system to run on the “broadest types of devices ever,” which suggests it will unify the tablet, desktop, laptop and mobile experiences in some fashion. Windows 10 will offer one application store that can be used to...
Cleaning is good for the Store It's easy to be overwhelmed when searching for applications on the various platforms out there. If it is not due to various apps having similar names then it is the ones that are copycats or even fraudulent. Well, Microsoft announced that it has removed 1,500 apps from its Windows Store in an attempt to make finding things easier and provide better quality...
Toshiba just announced two new Windows 8.1 tablets, offering up 8 and 10.1-inch versions of its Encore 2 slate. The new devices won’t be available to purchase until July, but we got a chance to try them out for ourself. Both Encore 2 tablets offer a pretty nice all-grey design with curved edges. The new lineup is significantly thinner than last year’s model, with the 10.1-inch slate...
Metro is the antithesis for power users To put it bluntly, "Metro is shit for power users." Those are the words of Jacob Miller, a UI designer for Windows 8 who lunged into a Reddit bash fest of Windows 8 that began with a discussion of how many licenses have been sold to date. To be clear, Miller's intent was not to pile on the Windows 8 hate, but to clarify why Metro exists. To do...
Windows 8/8.1 finally tops 10 percent market share For the first time in what feels like a hundred thousand years (slight exaggeration), Windows XP's share of the desktop operating system dipped below 30 percent according to data provided by NetMarketShare, and below 20 percent if you prefer the numbers tallied by StatCounter. Regardless of which one is more accurate, what's clear is...
The iPad didn’t just change the entire industry when it was announced, the device still has enough power to sway the market even today. Why? Because new iPads help spur consumer interest in tablets as a whole, research firm IDC said recently. Since a new iPad hasn’t been released in almost a year now, IDC said that Apple can be partially to blame for fewer tablet shipments across the...
The king is dead, long live the king Well, it finally happened. According to newly compiled data from two separate market research firms, Gartner and International Data Corporation (IDC), Lenovo is now the top supplier of PCs in the world, overtaking Hewlett-Packard (HP) for pole position. While Gartner and IDC report a slightly different number of PC shipments for each OEM, both...
One of the biggest reasons some customers choose a PC over a Mac is the cost. And the reason that, spec for spec, Windows machines are often much cheaper than an OS X-powered computer is because there is a diversity of OEMs designing and manufacturing a range of hardware at various price points. If competition drives down the price, then it's no surprise that Apple, which keeps an iron...
Imagine if a car thief walked into a dealership and was handed the keys to a new automobile, no questions asked. That would be too easy, right? Well, that’s essentially what Microsoft did with Windows 8 Pro when users went to claim their free copy of the Windows Media Center upgrade. One of the unintentional side effects of applying the upgrade is that it permanently activates Windows 8...
Microsoft and its partners obviously want (and need) Windows 8 to be a success. But apparently the launch hasn't helped boost PC sales… yet. In fact, sales are down 25% overall from the same time period last year, according to new research from NPD. Desktop sales fell 9% while notebook sales, surprisingly, fell 24%. "After just four weeks on the market, it's still early to place blame...