We just finished our first full Ratings of Windows 8 computers, including 23 laptops and nine desktops. The great news for consumers: We've identified Best Buys in almost every category of Windows 8 laptop, including 13-, 14-, and 15-inch ...
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Microsoft's Windows 8 may be lagging far behind Windows 7 in its usage uptake,but it's easily topping the low bar set by Windows Vista,according to data from Web metric firm Net Applications. Windows 8 accounted for 0.45%of all ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will support its Surface RT tablet with updates, including security patches, until April 2017, or nearly four-and-a-half years after its launch. The support lifecycle for the Surface with Windows RT tablet is ...
ARM CEO and UKtech50winner Warren East tells Computer Weekly how the ubiquity of its chips in smartphones has catapulted the company to the forefront of the mobile revolution and why its business model is crucial to fostering the innovation ...
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Tablets will outsell laptops for the first time ever this quarter,at least in North America,and will continue to outsell them next year. That's according to NPD DisplaySearch,whose Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report suggests ...
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Usability guru Jakob Nielsen has slammed Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system, accusing the company of hiding everyday features, imposing a tablet paradigm on desktop users, as well as a single-window user interface instead of ...
Microsoft's decision to put two user interfaces (UIs) inside Windows 8 was a strategic mistake that fails novice and experienced computer users alike on both tablets and traditional PCs, a usability expert said Monday. "That was the true ...
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Microsoft's new mobile operating systems have been affected by a series of glitches that has had users complaining online – and some returning their devices to retailers and mobile telecoms companies for a refund. The most serious ...
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ePharmaSolutions has launched PatientLive, a new patient recruitment application for the new Windows 8 platform. The new solution has a consumer and sponsor component, which will offer pharmaceutical companies and CROs a better return on ...
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Computerworld - Adobe has changed its schedule for releasing Flash Player security updates to coincide with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule. "Microsoft and Adobe are now officially married," joked Andrew Storms, director of security ...
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Emirates has started rolling out in-flight Windows 8 tablets that enable cabin crew to access core customer relationship management(CRM)and human resources(HR)information to improve customer service. Kevin Griffiths,senior ...
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BT is deploying the Windows 8 operating system(OS)to 5,900 engineers in its Openreach division in one the largest roll-outs of the most recent Microsoft OS. Speaking at the Dubai launch event for Windows 8,Peter Scott,director of end user ...
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Cyber criminals targeted users of Skype,Facebook and Windows using multiple Blackhole exploits in October,according to the latest threat report from security firm GFI Software. Researchers uncovered a large number of Blackhole exploits ...
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Computerworld-Enterprise IT decision makers are about half as enthusiastic about the new Windows 8 as they were three years ago about the then-just-released Windows 7,an analyst said today. Employees,however,have a higher-than-expected ...
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Google this week announced it had shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome,making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. Chrome 23,which ...
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