All the stories tagged with windows
Chrome for Windows gets updated with battery saving capabilities and “do not track” feature
11/06/2012, The latest Google Chrome update for Windows is focus on saving battery life and easier website permissions. Google has recently enabled GPU-accelerated video decoding on its browser for Windows. Using GPU-accelerated video decoding especially when watching videos can increase battery [...]
Microsoft sued due to Windows Live Tiles
10/31/2012, Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 have one thing in common – the implementation of Windows Live Tiles. I find the idea of Live Tiles to be a fascinating one, as you get to know what is going on [...]
Microsoft may face hefty fines over lack of browser choice in Windows 7
09/24/2012, Microsoft has conventionally released Windows with Internet Explorer as its default browser. This, it has been argued, leads to a distortion of competition in the browser market. As a result, European Union had bound Microsoft to introduce a ‘browser choice’ [...]
Internet Explorer bug fix pushed to the masses
09/17/2012, Microsoft has strongly encouraged Windows users earlier this morning to install a free piece of security software which is said to be able to offer protection for PCs from a newly discovered bug that is making its rounds on those [...]
Windows Phone 7.8 update arriving on current generation Nokia Lumias soon?
09/03/2012, Word on the Twitter-street has it that the Windows Phone 7.8 update will be making its way to the existing crop of Windows Phone 7-powered handsets of the Nokia Lumia range, where a couple of tweets were spotted as you [...]
Microsoft discreetly rebrands Windows Phone Marketplace to Windows Phone Store?
08/07/2012, Microsoft launched its new developer portal today and it’s called the Windows Phone Dev Center. The new Dev Center will replace Microsoft’s previous App Hub developer portal. In addition to that, Microsoft appears to have rebranded its Windows Phone Marketplace [...]
Microsoft reportedly dropping the Metro branding from its Windows UI
08/03/2012, One of the unique features of Windows Phone/Windows 8 is the Metro UI (pictured above). We admit that even though we don’t use Windows Phone devices, we like the Metro UI look and Android/iOS users who have downloaded mods/tweaks to [...]
Microsoft acknowledges the risk that OEMs may abandon ship
07/27/2012, Let’s be honest, you and plenty of others probably saw this coming when Microsoft announced the Surface tablet, a device which they pretty much designed and built themselves, thereby annoying and possibly angering their manufacturing partners in the process. If [...]
Dell confirms they are working on a Windows-based tablet – architecture, specs and release date unknown at this point
07/26/2012, We’re sure that Microsoft upset many of its OEM partners when they revealed the Surface tablet. However not all is lost as Microsoft does not plan to monopolize the Windows RT market and according to the Unwired View, other Windows [...]
Does Safari for Windows have a future?
07/25/2012, Mac users who are now enjoying the latest version of OS X, Mountain Lion, might have also noticed that Safari 6.0 for Mac has also rolled out. In fact, it seemed that Safari for Windows had gone missing entirely from [...]
Windows malware intrudes iOS App Store
07/24/2012, Although some Apple enthusiasts will often say that you won’t have to worry about dealing with malware and virus threats on your Mac or iOS device, recent reports are suggesting otherwise. A user named “deesto” posted a note to an [...]
Microsoft Live web services to receive makeover?
07/23/2012, Even though it’s still a few months away, It looks like Microsoft is already gearing up for the official release of Windows RT. According to reports online, Microsoft has been silently updating its Microsoft account login page with a hint [...]
Fujitsu Stylistic Q552 is another Windows tablet
07/17/2012, When it comes to the tablet market, the two main operating systems would be Android from Google and iOS from Apple. Microsoft’s Windows? Well, let us say that it has yet to make an impact, although the upcoming Microsoft Surface [...]
