Windows 8 News
FEATURED: Verizon Store Ignores Microsoft Surface, Shows General Apathy Towards The Platform
A recent blog post made headlines in the tech industry by showing Verizon’s lack of interest in selling the Microsoft Surface even though it is prominently displayed inside a protective case.
Consumers are clearly stalling for Windows 8 and it shows in the PC market as an overall slump that has caused HP to slide down from number one position to number two.
Windows users will be treading unknown territory when they start off on Windows 8 for the first time and to guide them better, Microsoft seems to have prepared some training videos.
Being just mere weeks away from being launched, Windows 8 is being used less often amongst users when compared to Windows 7 at the same time of its life cycle.
With the Windows 8 GA (general availability) launch coming up later this month, Microsoft has decided to turn the MSN home page in to the dedicated home page for Windows 8 and IE10.
Intel chief Paul Otellini has been heard telling his employees that Windows 8 still has bugs and is not ready for general consumption just yet even though the OS has been released to manufacturing earlier this month.
As of last week, Microsoft has been distributing brand new Windows 8 PCs, Surface tablets and Phones to all 94,000 of its employees.
The New low-power Hondo chip from AMD will be released and used exclusively for Windows 8 devices, said AMD in a recent announcement regarding the new processor.
It was already known that Windows RT would come with its own version of Office 2013 bundled in and today Microsoft finally revealed the details of this new version of Office.
