Ten years ago, Dave Pugh was hired to clean windows at the home of Omaha philanthropists Sue and Walter Scott.
Given my passion for clean windows, you might think that I'd regard Mr. Savadian and his product as saviors of a sort.
On the surface, the show was about bigger, denser displays (4K), tablets of varying sizes, and oddball novelties like robots that clean windows.
For example, if it can scale bigger and keep the adhesion force, it could make for a great way to clean windows on skyscrapers.
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But when I did a clean install of Windows 8, this speed demon booted up in 11 seconds.
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Common exemptions include where a hosepipe is used to clean cars, windows or outdoor surfaces - this covers car washing businesses and window cleaners.
Also, these are presumably fresh, clean installs of Windows 8.
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Well, it looks like those hoping to do a clean install of Windows Vista with an upgrade-only edition of the OS may not be entirely out of luck after all, although they'll still have to jump through a few hoops to get it done.
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"The Windows 8 platform has a clean, elegant, and fluid interface, " he continued.
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We had to respect Vizio for giving most of its PCs 1080p screens and installing a clean, bloatware-free version of Windows.
Well it looks like in a relatively clean fight, Nokia has that role with Windows Phone.
We're happy to say we felt the same way when we first met the smaller, more colorful, 8S. Here too, HTC's inspiration comes from Windows Phone 8 itself, with clean lines dominating the overall aesthetic.
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The modern UI of large typefacing, tiles and horizontal views has been pioneered and tweaked in many consumer products, From the first Windows Media Centers, through the Zune music players, and refined in the Windows Phone 7 range, Metro UI was the clean style of interface that has now been iterated into the latest products.
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Instead of opening windows, the new Royal London Hospital has 200 units that bring clean filtered air into the hospital's 3, 500 rooms.
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