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Microsoft announces the Start Menu is returning to Windows 8.1
It’s back. Microsoft has, after years of dodging and fighting it, finally announced that they will be returning Windows 8.1 back to its roots – that’s right, in a future update coming free to all...
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Microsoft releases Windows 8.1 Update 1
Microsoft’s next big update to their desktop Windows platform, Windows 8.1 Update 1, has just been released onto Windows Update. The update, which Microsoft officially announced at Build last week,...
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The next Windows 8 update could be called Windows 8.2
According to popular Microsoft beta scene group WZOR, which has accurately delivered copious amounts of news, screenshots, and leaks regarding the development of various versions of Microsoft Windows...
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Microsoft to finally fix bug blocking upgrade to Windows 8.1
If your computer is one of the many affected by the bug that blocks its copy of Windows 8 from being upgraded to Windows 8.1, there’s good news on the horizon. Microsoft is finally taking pity on your...
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Pictures of Threshold leak, shows off new Start menu
For the 100% of Windows users who still use a keyboard and mouse comes good news. One interesting bit of news from //BUILD/ earlier this year was that the Start Menu would be making a return in Windows...
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Windows Threshold to finally add virtual desktops and do away with Charms
It turns out that Windows Threshold is going to be a much bigger UI update than just a Start Menu. Although we’ve heard this for a couple days now, Mary Jo Foley has posted that the next version of...
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Microsoft begins shipping free Galileo boards for Windows IoT development
When Microsoft announced Windows for the Internet of Things at the company’s annual Build conference this year, people were excited. A little bit confused, considering how nebulous the term “Internet...
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Microsoft bringing Cortana to Windows 9 “Threshold”
Microsoft made a splash with Cortana when Windows Phone 8.1 finally launched a couple of months ago, and after months of testing people have gotten a pretty good idea of how accurate and useful...
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Mojang goes to Microsoft for a whopping $2.5 billion
Mojang isn’t a big studio, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from paying a big price for it. While the Swedish indie studio is home to less than 50 employees, these guys are hard at work on one of the...
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HP steps it up with new value Windows 8 tablets and laptops
Microsoft has been looking to readjust their Windows strategy to better combat the influx of ultra low-cost, low end machines flooding the market these days, and today we’re seeing another step in...
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Windows 9 is coming – here’s what to realistically expect at today’s event
Windows 9 is coming. Sure, Microsoft may not call it that – not today, and perhaps not ever – but whatever Microsoft announces at their “future of Windows” event today, it is the next major release of...
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A first look at the Windows 10 Technical Preview
Using the Windows 10 Technical Previews feels a little bit like going home. It’s as if I had just spent the last three years in some sort of bizzare-o world filled with buggy, nearly useless full...
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eFun came to CES with a bunch of bargain basement Windows and Android tablets
Microsoft hasn’t had the best of luck with tablets running Windows 8.1 just yet, but that isn’t stopping some manufacturers from trying. Budget manufacturer eFun has come to CES with not one, not two,...
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