DesktopsEarlier this week, I blogged about how Samsung is restoring a Start menu capability to...
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DesktopsQuick: visit http://www.isjavaexploitable.com/ on any PC close at hand. There are a number of Java exploits rampant in the wild at the moment, so you'll want to see a resulting screen that looks like this if you do have...
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DesktopsPreston Gralla writes a great blog for Computerworld entitled "Seeing through Windows." That title can, of course, be interpreted in more than one way -- and so very often can his blogs -- and those are just some of the things I like about his work. In an 8/28/2012 posting entitled "
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DesktopsAs is so often the case, after I upgraded from Windows 8 RP to RTM, I had a few drivers to clean up on each of my test machines (right now, they include a Lenovo X220 Tablet and a home-built desktop with an Asus P8Z68-V Pro Gen3 mobo, i7-2600K CPU, 32 GB RAM, and so on). On the RP version,...
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DesktopsAs this snippet from Peter Bright's Ars Technica story from yesterday illustrates, Microsoft's replacing the corporate logo it's...
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DesktopsHere's my first report on experiences with Windows 8 Pro RTM, in the wake of two successful upgrade installs: one on my Lenovo X220 Tablet, the other on my i7-2700K.
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DesktopsThanks to SQL Server blogger Mr. Denny right here on ITKE, I have a great trick to share with readers who want to upgrade their Windows 8 Release Preview installs to the latest RTM version now available through MSDN, TechNet, and other sources. This blog post of his is entitled "
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The ongoing Metro flap continues....
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DesktopsThere's been enough hoopla and unhappiness about the Windows 8 tile-oriented user interface known until now as Metro, that MS has apparently decided to kill the name and call this GUI something else entirely. Too bad I haven't yet laid hands on the RTM code for Windows 8, because I'd love to find...
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DesktopsThough other market followers have already intoned the inflection point between Windows XP and Windows 7 -- namely, the point at which the old (XP) finally dips below the new (Win7) -- tracking firm NetMarketShare has not yet seen its sampling of millions of PC users indicate that Windows 7 has...
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