Windows 8 News

What Windows 8 needs to be… Part 1

Everybody’s got a wish list for what they want Windows to be.  As a technical beta-tester for Microsoft and the author of the Windows 7 Power Users Guide, I’ve had a great insight over the last few years into what Windows could have been, having tested features that were later dropped from betas, and I’ve [...]

Win $300 Of Crucial Memory For Your PC!

In tandem with our sister site Windows 7 News, we’ve been giving away over $9000 worth of software and hardware this month.  So far we’ve had some amazing prizes, and on Day 9 of our $9k Christmas Giveaway we are giving away one of our best prizes.  Today the lucky winner of our main reverse [...]

More Job Postings Hint At Windows 8’s Future

Several sites have been keeping a close eye on the job postings at Microsoft Careers, to see if there are any indicators on there as to what direction Windows 8 may go in.  In total in November they spotted seven job postings for Windows 8 and windows server 2008 R2.
One interesting job posting was for [...]

We’re Giving Away $9K This December!!

In tandem with our sister site Windows 7 News & Tips we are giving away over $9000 this December.  Yes, everyday between Dec 1st and Dec 24th we are giving away prizes worth over $300!!
Entry is free and you can enter as many times as you want.  All you have to do is visit our Christmas Giveaway [...]

Windows 8 – 128bit Rumours Were Fake?

Last month a number of sites, including this one, picked up on rumours that Windows 8 would support 128-bit processors.  The main ’source’ of the rumours was a Robert Morgan who was a “senior member of Microsoft’s R&D team” who leaked information about Windows 8’s 128 bit capabilities on his LinkedIn profile.
However, it looks now [...]

Windows 8 ‘Confirmed’ for 2012 Launch

More and more evidence is emerging that Windows 8 will be released in 2012.  At this years Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC 2009), budding attendees managed to get their hands on two Windows roadmap slides that show ‘Windows 8′ launching in 2012:

Now these slides don’t really provide any information that we didn’t know; Microsoft typically leave [...]

Looking Forward To Windows 8, What Microsoft Missed In Windows 7, Part 5

Resident editor Mike Halsey has just published on Windows 7 News, the latest post in his series ‘Looking Forward To Windows 8, What Microsoft Missed In Windows‘.  In part 5, he covers improvements he would like to see to Windows 7’s libraries and search  in Windows 8:
I’ve spoken before about Libraries being an excellent example [...]

Ten Items On My Windows 8 Wishlist

The dust hasn’t yet settled on the launch of Windows 7 and I’m fairly certain that in the new year, Microsoft will not only release Windows 7 SP1 but also (finally) some details of Windows 8.  Windows 7 is a brilliant OS, but there is still room for improvement.  What features would you add to [...]

Windows 8’s Known Knowns

Long after Donald Rumsfeld has died, he will be known (sic) for one of the worst quotes ever:
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things [...]

Download 1250 Windows 8 Wallpapers

To celebrate the launch of Windows 7 and (hopefully) the start of some news from Microsoft on Windows 8, Windows 7 Themes have pulled together a mega pack of 1250 Windows 8 Wallpapers:
The wallpaper package includes a lot of different wallpapers: dual-screen, panorama (ultra-wide wallpaper), firefox, mac, windows vista and 7, cars, nature, underwater scenes, [...]

Join Windows 8 Forum Today For More News

Have you visited the Windows 8 Forum?  If not, then maybe you should today.  There are nearly 4,000 active users in the forum that we share with our sister site Windows 7 News, and a number of Windows 8 posts and rumours are starting to appear.

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Windows 8 will mark 30 years since the home computer revolution

Who could have imagined over even the last ten years that the PC, a business device, would be welcomed with such open arms into the home.  That huge sections of our living rooms and spare bedrooms would be devoted to huge beige, then black, boxes.
Windows 8 is due in beta 2011 for release in 2012.  This [...]

Windows 8 to support 32, 64 or 128-bit?

Recently there have been rumours that the next version of Windows will move the whole platform completely over to 128-bit architecture, dumping 32 and 64-bit compatibility completely.
This first came about because of a news story broken by Microsoft Kitchen a few days ago in which Robert Morgan, a senior research and development officer at Microsoft [...]