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Editor’s Note: Guest Author Ajeet Pratap Maurya is a Software Engineer specializing in .NET technologies and iOS development. Software giant Microsoft has finally unveiled Windows 8 operating system for public preview on after their developer’s preview during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. With this release there were many major changes in Windows...

The most awaited operating system is finally ON with the software giant Microsoft unveiled it at the Mobile World Congress Windows 8 Consumer Preview show – the new operating system is termed as “generational operating system,” just like Windows 95 and is designed to work as well on tablets as on traditional computers and will replace Windows last version 7. Windows...

With the Microsoft’s Windows 8 Consumer Preview released yesterday, a lot of applications too are making their way rounding up all around, among the app list; there is one app for world’s most liked blogging platform, WordPress, released its app for Windows 8 followed up after the software giant’s great event. The app which has been built completely in the...

With the launch of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft unveiled Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 10. At the time when installing the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which is available for publicly download now, consumers can try Microsoft’s new Metro-influenced browser. The new browser will take your entire screen for web pages, removing all navigation elements...

Microsoft Windows 8 much awaited Windows Store has just launched, with a thinking to add a better experience for consumers in an aim of finding softwares easier. The new OS store adopts the Metro Style and promotes the number of applications and games including the Telegraph, USA Today, Slacker, and Daily Motion and third party apps namely WordPress, Kindle and iCookbook....

Microsoft released the Windows 8 Developer Preview – Comes in ISO format and is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions in English, Chinese, French, German, and Japanese. Minimum requirements for the Consumer Preview are a 1GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of free storage space, and a DirectX 9-compatible graphics card. To download, click here, available...

The first demos of working Metro apps for Windows 8 are out with Windows 8 Consumer Preview today. Microsoft showed a WordPress app that allows you to share content directly with a charm. Amazon has created an app of its Kindle but wait it is too in Metro version. A Cookbook app and Cut the Rope was shown to demonstrate how easy it was to turn HTML5 content into full...

Microsoft Windows 8 start button has been removed from operating system but its replacement speaks a lot “good” of the emphasis the company made while working on it – added with the number of gestures, for touch and keyboard and mouse with one new added feature switcher. The start button still exists and is available in the charms bar on the right hand side,...

Microsoft during the Windows 8 Consumer Preview at Mobile World Congress demonstrated both ARM and Intel x86 flavors of Windows 8 hardware that will come up with the new operating system that will ship later this year. Microsoft wasn’t showing much new at first, with Julie Larson-Green starting out by using the Metro interface on the same Samsung preview slate...

Microsoft is releasing the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 today, a highly anticipated software release from the company that marks the introduction of a full touch interface for Windows. The early days of Windows were inauspicious ones when sitting on top of DOS for longer time and with time revolution comes – a total way of seeing the things knocks the door and...