Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Windows 8 Beta) has been released today as we reminded yesterday. Microsoft is currently holding the official event at the Mobile Web Congress in Barcelona, Spain and the download links have also appeared in the official Microsoft website. It is available right now in the Windows developer center website. The beta version of Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express to build the [...]

Windows 8 is a touch-friendly operating system and many have been arguing in recent weeks that it fits mobile devices and tablets rather than traditional PCs with keyboard and mouse. Even we had initially found it a bit uncomfortable to use the Windows 8 OS with keyboard and mouse. We had also mentioned in an earlier post on how to bring back the Start Menu in Windows 8 in order to make it easier [...]

Windows 8 Store is one of the most important components of the Windows 8 Operating System. The App Store is live since the Windows 8 Consumer Preview release and all the apps are free in the store during the beta phase. The number of Apps in the Store are gradually growing with time as new apps are being added. There are nearly a hundred or more apps in the Windows 8 Store as of now. These are divided [...]

The tablet-friendly Windows 8 operating system will be released later this year as has been confirmed by Microsoft. The beta version of the OS was released less than three weeks ago and it is a fairly stable release without any major issues. Microsoft has also been steadily adding new apps to the Windows 8 Store in the last few weeks and several app developers are also busy building new apps. Windows [...]

Did any of you check the number of Windows updates to the Windows 8 Consumer Preview OS since its release? Perhaps not many of you might have noticed but Microsoft had released 11 updates by the 14th of March which was only about a couple of weeks since the release date. If you have used the Windows 8 Developer Preview, you would know that the frequency of updates in this version is a lot faster than [...]

Windows Operating System had the “System Restore” feature for the last few versions of the OS which made it relatively easier to restore your computer to a previous date in case of some urgent problems. However, the problem with such a restore was that it changed all your recent files and personalization settings that you had made since the “restore point” date. It also removed [...]

I am a massive Windows fan and love all the features and options of Windows 8 except for one feature (or rather lack of one feature). The feature which I am referring to is the “Windows Start Menu”. Start Menu has been an integral part of Windows Operating System since the Windows 95 edition. And it was also one of the main reasons behind the success of Windows OS as it enabled access [...]

Windows 8 has brought a lot of new features and feature enhancements. One such feature enhancement is the Windows Task Manager which provides a lot more details about the system including live CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Usage. There are a total of seven tabs in the Detailed Task Manager in Windows 8 which include Processes, Performance, App History, Startup, Users, Details and Services. Even within [...]

Windows 8 Developer Preview had half a million downloads on the first day of it’s release. And the number of downloads has almost doubled in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview version. The Building Windows 8 Team tweeted yesterday that the Windows 8 Consumer Preview has crossed one million downloads within a day. Though this was quite expected being a Beta and fairly stable release but the numbers [...]

Windows 8 Consumer Consumer Preview was released a couple of days back and we downloaded and installed it soon like most of you must have done. We had also used Windows 8 Developer Preview quite extensively but there were quite a few problems in the earlier release including computer speaker sound problem, shutdown etc. as well as incomplete features such as the Windows 8 Store. But Windows 8 Consumer [...]

Although Windows 8 Consumer Preview was the main highlight of the Microsoft releases today, three other important beta releases of Microsoft products also took place simultaneously. The first of them was the IE 10 Platform Preview 5 which is embedded in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Operating System as of now. As mentioned earlier, Internet Explorer 10 will be a touch friendly browser optimized for [...]