Will consumers miss loading their older Windows software or buying new Windows desktop software?
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Gadgets are small snippets of HTML code that run on the Windows desktop.
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If they promoted and distributed Explorer--and not Netscape's Navigator--their sites would be listed on the Windows desktop.
Not for nothing has the Windows desktop been described as the world's most valuable piece of real estate.
Things are, by default, a bit more finger-friendly than your average Windows desktop, with bigger buttons and menu options.
Another similarity: both Windows RT and Windows 8 have the traditional Windows desktop.
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Microsoft is reportedly readying a new version of its Windows desktop and server software that will run on ARM processors.
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From the Windows desktop theme to the exterior of the PC a MLB Series Commodore Gaming computer is decorated with the team artwork.
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"In our hands-on of Microsoft's Consumer Preview, we declared that your familiar Windows desktop is all but dead, " Alexandra Chang wrote Friday for Wired.
There is the standard Intel-only version that runs existing Windows desktop apps and the less versatile tablet-only Windows RT for machines that use an ARM processor.
With a great sucking sound audible in Redmond as the Windows desktop disappears into the cloud, Microsoft has no choice but to damn the expense and forge ahead.
Despite the fact that you'll almost exclusively be using apps purchased in the Windows Store, we'd add that the traditional Windows desktop on a tablet-type device can be enormously useful.
From the beginning of Microsoft's mobile efforts in the PDA era, its touchscreen phone software has had a Start button and windows that could be minimized like the classic Windows desktop.
From having the familiar Windows desktop in full screen to having Windows run invisibly, Parallels Desktop 8 delivers powerful performance to run Windows applications, even graphic-intensive ones, like they were made for a Mac.
The Flip was not just easy-to-use, but it could be employed so quickly that it made the process of starting to record video on an Android smartphone feel as slow as booting a Windows desktop PC.
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In Windows 8, you can revert to the Windows desktop experience via a tile, and you can further customize the interface with third-party apps which revive the Start experience and return Windows 8 to a 7-like environment.
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Put a Cius into its dock with a landline handset connected to a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and it could load your virtual Mac or Windows desktop and act just like a traditional PC as well as a desk phone.
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One important thing for consumers to ask when considering Surface is whether they want to load any of the current Windows desktop apps they own today or if they will want to buy and install new Windows desktop apps in the future.
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RetroUI Pro allows you to brings back features which Microsoft removed in Windows 8, such as the Start Button and Start Menu, and adds RetroUI exclusive features that allow you to run the new Windows 8 Start Screen and new Windows 8 Apps on the classic Windows desktop.
Zipwhip has partnered with many mobile operators to offer this new functionality, and Zipwhip text messaging supports all web browsers, all desktop operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux), iPad, Android tablets, Amazon Kindle, and Windows 8 desktop.
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Desktop mode is exactly that, just like the Windows 7 desktop.
Prior to ending development last year, the company offered its Microsoft Reader software for about a decade -- first on handheld devices using Windows CE and Windows Mobile and later on desktop Windows.
We use Windows Remote Desktop so that everyone could log in from wherever they were to do the work.
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Even with the formerly-known-as-Metro UI (Modern UI), the Windows 7 desktop is still lurking beneath the Surface (pun intended).
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The move comes months after Microsoft agreed to pay the BBC a fee to use some of its online news stories within its Windows 8 desktop Bing Daily news app.
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While its connected to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, and other peripherals there is functionally no difference between a Windows 8 tablet and a traditional Windows 8 desktop or laptop PC.
The Intel Atom Z2760, aka Clover Trail, enables a fanless tablet experience that gets up to 10 hours battery life and is compatible with both Metro touch apps and Windows 7 desktop apps.
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