Get your copy of Windows 8 before it is too late

While it’s easy to hate on Windows 8, it’s time to stop muttering about the changes and buy the upgrade before it gets way more expensive. Windows 8 has sold more than 60 million licences to date, but Microsoft has not revealed how many of these copies have been activated. Still, these are generally goodContinue reading “Get your copy of Windows 8 before it is too late”

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Death to widgets: Microsoft could kill desktop gadgets in Windows 8

There was a time when desktop widgets were supposed to be the next big thing. Fortunately, in our post-PC world, those times are long gone. Microsoft, too, is catching up with our anti-widget times with its plan to nix desktop gadgets in Windows 8, according to Win8china, which says that the latest build of theContinue reading “Death to widgets: Microsoft could kill desktop gadgets in Windows 8”

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Why Microsoft killed start button on Windows 8

Do you use the Start button in Windows? If not, then you’re supposedly the reason Microsoft got rid of it in Windows 8. Chaitanya Sareen, principal program manager at Microsoft, told U.K. computer publication PC Pro that data indicated a decrease in the use of the Start button. Citing “telemetry” obtained by the Microsoft CustomerContinue reading “Why Microsoft killed start button on Windows 8”

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