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Windows 8 Release Preview detailed impressions

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More Info Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview detailed impressions Windows 8 Release Preview coming ‘first week of June’ Microsoft reveals more multi-monitor improvements in Windows 8 Release Preview (video) Until now, it seemed like…


Switched On: Clash of the troubled titans

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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Fans of the Lincoln-Kennedy coincidences can appreciate similarly contrived dynamics in comparing Nokia and RIM (neither of which, contrary to the occasionally expresse…


Kiss Aero goodbye: Latest Windows 8 build reveals minimalistic desktop UI

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It’s safe to say that anticipation is high for the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview, which will become available in the first week of June. While we’re still curious to see if Microsoft can better integrate the desktop and Metro environments of its…


Kiss Aero goodbye: Latest Windows 8 build reveals minimalistic desktop UI

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It’s safe to say that anticipation is high for the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview, which will become available in the first week of June. While we’re still curious to see if Microsoft can better integrate the desktop and Metro environments of its…


Kubuntu 12.10 gains Blue Systems as sponsor, Canonical waves farewell

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Everyone loves a happy ending, and it’s with this in mind that we share the latest round of good news from the Kubuntu team. Starting with version 12.10, the popular KDE variant of Ubuntu will have sponsorship from Blue Systems. Previously, Canonical …


Samsung considering Android-based digital camera

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Android on a mainstream digital camera? Yes, you could live to see the day. We’re at Samsung’s Korean headquarters this week, where we had an opportunity to sit down with the company’s research and development team to talk about the past, present and …


Microsoft Windows 8 on 82-inch touchscreen hands-on (video)

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We don’t have 100 fingers — theoretically the supported limit of Windows 8 on the 82-inch capacitive touchscreen display we just had a chance to go hands-on with at the company’s latest OS demo at Mobile World Congress — but things looked pretty imp…


Join us for Microsoft’s Windows 8 press conference tomorrow at 9am EST!

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If you’re Microsoft and in the process of overhauling Windows so that it’s equally at home on PCs and tablets, it would make sense to unveil a semi-final version at the world’s premier wireless show. That’s exactly what’s going to happen tomorrow, wh…


Mozilla Boot to Gecko hands-on (video)

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Here it is, folks: Mozilla’s assault on the smartphone. Known as Boot to Gecko, the OS is geared toward hobbyists and consumers alike. Mozilla tells us that all Android users (with unlocked bootloaders) will be able to install the operating system ont…


Apple drops the ‘Mac’ from OS X Lion, Mountain Lion (update: began at WWDC)

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Clearly, cats are in. But Mac, it seems, is out. Apple has quietly dropped the Mac name from its latest OS X Mountain Lion operating system, while also retroactively changing the Lion branding on its website. While it’s clearly a marketing move and wo…