Consumers have voted with their wallets and now it is official that Windows 8 is a flop.
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The Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant will also check your PC to make sure it is ready for Windows 8.
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It's therefore less risky and far more cost-effective for Compaq to back Linux on Alpha than it is to back Windows on Alpha.
It is a lot easier for us to come down into the tablet and phone space on Windows than it is for the ARM guys to come up into the PC space and deal with the fact that there is no legacy of compatibility.
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This is something that Microsoft has been preparing for, which is why it designed Windows 8 with tablets in mind.
It is also making the Windows source-code available to governments for scrutiny.
And if you think of it like Microsoft Windows is an operating system that runs on several computers, like HP, Dell, and Toshiba...
It is essentially incompatible with Windows 8, running no programs that run on the standard version nor any that run on Windows 7.
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With that being said, we've convinced ourselves that the future of Media Center, and the key to wider adoption that we think it deserves, is with Windows Home Server.
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In many cases these are older machines which benefit from the fact it is less demanding on computer power than Windows - and is virus-free.
What this software does to overall system performance probably varies from machine to machine based on processor speed and version of Windows, but it is a very innovative marketing strategy to use what many users will consider as a missing feature in Windows 8 as a hook for a revenue producing app platform.
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The first is that Windows 8 is seeing roughly half of the interest from IT hardware decision-makers that Windows 7 saw at the same point in its release cycle.
The service, which is available on Xbox today and with Windows 8 when it ships, is a combination of pretty much every other music program you already use.
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It is a faster version of windows 7, with a full touch mode available.
While Microsoft and its fans might not want to admit it yet, Windows 8 is a flop.
Microsoft's insistence that it and it alone defines what Windows is and what goes into Windows is central to the dispute.
If you examine the technical details of Windows 8, you will find that, unlike previous versions of Windows, it is rife with gimmicks that are meant to lock-in the customer.
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What's called stop-and-frisk - it has a lot of other names like community policing - or sort of focusing on, what is it - the broken windows policing as it were?
That means it's more powerful, of course, but more importantly, since this is an x86 system it runs full Windows 8 instead of Windows RT.
Today, we are seeing Microsoft is struggling with its commercial Windows Phone OS (BTW, it is much better than Android, but it is not free.), and Blackberry has a grim outlook.
But it is hard to imagine many choosing a browserless Windows on behalf of their customers if there is no price difference between the two.
My money is that quirk is catching out Windows Phone and presenting it as losing market share, even if it is gaining raw sales.
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As it turns out, the Yoga is one of many Windows 8 convertibles we've handled, and it's rare that we review an Ultrabook without a touchscreen.
That leaked build of Windows Blue is a case in point: it suggests a relatively incremental update to Windows 8, yet some of its revelations are already causing quite a stir.
The BBC has announced it is to bring iPlayer to the Windows Phone platform.
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It is the biggest shift in the Windows interface since the move from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95.
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On Wednesday in New York, Nokia has a major event where it is expected to unveil its first Windows 8 device.
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The free software runs on Windows XP, Vista and will also be available for Windows 7 when it is released in late October.
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