The worldwide tablet market is exploding with demand as people jettison laptops for smaller, touch-based devices. But even as tablets become must-have personal computing devices, Windows, and particularly Windows 8 tablets, won’t be a ...
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Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows “reimagined,” and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the operating system’s use across a range of touchscreen devices, Microsoft ...
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Symantec said Windows 8 “doesn’t move the needle much” on security as it rolled out new versions of its antivirus software and promised to provide users with several so-called “Modern” apps for the new ...
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Dell urged Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to drop the Windows brand from the tablet-based RT operating system because it thought it would lead to confusion. That's what Dell vice chairman and president of its PC arm Jeffrey Clarke told ...
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Lenovo on Wednesday announced the ThinkPad Tablet 2, which has a 10.1-inch screen and kicks off a new generation of the company's PCs and devices with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system. The tablet will weigh less than 600 ...
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Despite distressingly poor sales to date, Windows Phone 8 is set to consolidate its place as the 'third platform' behind Google and Apple in the next five years, analysts Ovum and Gartner have predicted. Ovum predicts that Microsoft's ...
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HP on Monday announced the new ElitePad 900 tablet, with Windows 8, which the company says can be easily disassembled to replace components in order to save hardware and support costs. The tablet, targeted at businesses, has a 10.1-inch ...
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HP's ElitePad 900 has a major flaw in the fact that its screen resolution isn't high enough to support Microsoft's Windows 8's 'Snap' feature. The 10-inch screen has a resolution of 1280 by 800 whereas most Windows 8 tablets have much ...
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Downgrade rights will be critical to Windows 8's acceptance in the enterprise, but if they're exercised by consumers, it's a sign Microsoft's newest OS has pulled a "Vista," analysts said today. For consumers, downgrade rights, which let ...
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Microsoft today said it would update Flash on Windows 8 "shortly," although it declined to set a timetable. "In light of Adobe's recently released security updates for its Flash Player, Microsoft is working closely with Adobe to release ...
Apple may finally be feeling the PC sales slump in the U.S., research firm IDC said Thursday. According to IDC, Apple sold fewer Macs in the U.S. during the second quarter than it did in the same period a year earlier. If the research ...
Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and the driving force behind the new OS, is leaving the company, Microsoft announced today. Sinofsky was also the public face for Windows 8 and its new ...
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There will be no certified implementations of Adobe Systems' Flash Player for Android 4.1, and on Aug. 15 the player will take a bow and no longer be available for download from Google's app store Play, Adobe said in blog post Thursday. ...
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The first round of Windows 8 tablets and laptops coming out later this year will be "just the beginning" of a range of form factors and styles that will evolve as the operating system matures, according to the president of a major Taiwanese ...
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Despite Intel's claim that 40 percent of all laptops sold this year would be ultrabooks the most popular, mid-tange priced ultra-portable notebook today is Apple's MacBook Air. Intel defines an ultrabook as an ultra-portable computer ...
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