For those who do have windows that open, the Alliance has free confetti by the bale.
Is there something that we can do regarding Windows Phone 8 to induce upgrades to Windows 8?
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But for all the legal wrangling, the battle over remedies boils down to this: What to do about Windows?
Perfectly positioned to do what Windows 8 dreamed of, perhaps the devices can can be what consumers wanted a next generation PC.
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What surprised me about this morning's keynote was that Mr Elop also unveiled four devices that had nothing to do with Windows, phones aimed at the developing world.
And, if you're feeling really frisky, you can pull a window and snap it into place so that it takes up half the screen -- again, similar to what you can do in Windows 7.
Sinofsky brings out Julie Larson-Green, corporate VP for Windows, to do a demo of Windows 8.
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Please, if you are in any way shape or form a gamer, avoid making the mistake I did and do not buy Windows 8 yet.
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What would this do to the Windows Phone market?
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To ALL gamers, DO NOT BUY WINDOWS 8.
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If you do like the native Windows format for media, you can use the included Windows Media Connection functionality.
MacBooks and iMacs will play nicely on Microsoft networks nowadays but Windows machines do a better job with less resources and support.
Only 24% of firms expect to migrate to Windows 8 but have no specific plans to do so, versus 49% for Windows 7 back in 2009.
In other words, while you can install an app like Photoshop on a full Windows 8 machine, you can't do it here, nor any other Windows application written since the dawn of the OS. Additionally, we have our doubts about whether anyone going forward will bother to write desktop apps versus those more optimized for running in the de facto Live Tile interface.
Andy Rubin wants Android to do for cell phones what Windows did for computers.
But they also have a lot to do with the security of Windows users.
Wintel is easy to say, what do I call products running Windows 8 on ARM-based processors?
And if you do decide to replace your windows, does it matter what the new ones are made of?
Certainly Microsoft App-V, VMware ThinApp and Citrix XenApp app streaming cannot do this (XenApp Remote Desktop Services can do this but this requires Windows in the Data Center and so in that respect is no different to VDI).
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The MX does what other Windows machines can do, but also lets you record and play TV, DVDs, CDs, FM radio, MiniDiscs and Memory Sticks and, with the help of optional wireless networking, send TV over the ether to a computer in another room.
Sony's got most of them in stock, with custom models shipping by February 19th, well before its CES prognostication of "early Spring" -- so if you've been hoping to actually, you know, do something with those famous Windows 8 live tiles, hit the source.
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 64 bit architecture has been around for a while but the need to utilize and improve it was when more browsers and applications such as games and work related applications needed more ram. 3 Gigs became not enough and expanding more ram to the home user allowed Windows pcs to do more and not be bogged down.
The older first and second generation Windows Phone devices, the majority of them running Windows Phone 7.5, do not have the same hardware profile as the newer devices, and because of that cannot run the Windows Phone 8 operating system.
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They are the people who do the testing of things like Windows and Microsoft Office.
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And these developers should be allowed to do again what they did with Windows: create a new standard.
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