Blog Posts on windows 8

TECH: Experience Windows 8 on iPad with Splashtop! Folks @... by Mon.PH on May 28, 2012TECH: Experience Windows 8 on iPad with Splashtop! Folks @ Splashtop created an iOS app that would hook your iPad to your Windows 8 PC. It looks like Teamviewer. First, download the Windows 8 Metro Testbed. (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/win8-metro-...

Notes from Microsoft to Touchscreen Users Upgrading their OS to the Awaited Windows 8 by Pinoy Technologies on May 22, 2012For those itching to get a taste of Windows 8, the OS’s Consumer Preview is open for download. But before jumping right into OS itself, it is ideal that consumers should be smart enough to know fine details before deciding on upgrading- especia...

Windows 8 Security: What’s New by ComTECHnician on May 21, 2012When Windows 8 comes out later this year, the new Start screen and Metro-style apps will likely be the first changes you’ll notice, but those aren’t the only things that are new. Microsoft is also making some serious security enhancemen...

Microsoft reveals more multi-monitor improvements in Windows 8 Release Preview (video) by Pinoytech Reviews on May 21, 2012If you're a multitasking extraordinaire who depends on Windows as your primary computing platform of choice, there's a good chance you utilize more than one monitor to get your work done -- unfortunately, the seventh iteration of Microsoft's OS didn'...

Microsoft bolsters parental controls with Windows 8 by Euclidean Space on May 17, 2012Microsoft aims to give parents more control over their children's computer use on Windows 8 with a new feature announced this week."With Windows 8, you can monitor what your kids are doing, no matter where they use their PC," Microsoft's senior progr...

Microsoft talks DVD, Media Center support in Windows 8 and why most won’t miss it by Pinoytech Reviews on May 7, 2012If you have to issue an explanation to follow up an explanation, then it's pretty safe to say the first one wasn't clear enough, and it's under those circumstances that Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky and the Windows 8 team are returning to the subject...

Microsoft breaks down Windows 8′s Media Center upgrade path, Dolby codec support by Pinoytech Reviews on May 3, 2012Many in the Windows Media Center community were afraid that Windows 8 would mark the end of Media Center, while others thought it would be like Notepad -- present, but unchanged. In the end both were wrong as Microsoft announced Media Center would...

Barnes & Noble Jumps 52% On Microsoft’s Investment by TechMoth on May 1, 2012Microsoft is investing $300 million in a new subsidiary that combines Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader and college bookstore businesses, the New York retailer said Monday. Microsoft will own about 18 percent of the unit, which has yet to be...

Windows 8 – What To Expect From Microsoft’s Latest Operating System by NooBite on Apr 27, 2012If you’re getting impatient about what to expect when the latest incarnation of Windows comes along then it looks increasingly likely that there will be much to get excited about. Although Windows 7 has been a pretty good success and … Contin...

Windows 8 Release Preview coming ‘first week of June’ by Pinoytech Reviews on Apr 24, 2012Reckoning it's about time you replaced that copy of Windows 8 Consumer Preview? Microsoft is right there with you. According to the outfit's Building Windows 8 Twitter account, the next major installment of Win8 is due out in "the first week of Ju...