Windows 8′s name was chosen because it will be the 8th version of Windows. Double-checking this isn’t as easy as you may think and trips up many people. Here are the Windows versions that preceded Windows 8: Windows 1.0 Windows 2.0 Windows 3.0 Windows 95 (Windows 4.0) Windows 2000 (Windows 5.0) Windows Vista (Windows 6.0) [...]
We have our first set of Windows 8 Wallpapers! The Windows 8 Transformation Pack is from the same team who pulled together some of the early Windows 7 Wallpapers. Within the pack are are Windows 8 Wallpapers and Windows 8 Login Screen backgrounds. More: Windows 8 Transformation Pack
You only have 2 days left to enter the $200 competition to design a new logo for Windows 7 News and Windows 8 News. There’s 2 days left to go and we need to pick a winner from the 190 entries so far. Because there have been so many entries we need your help selecting [...]
Eagle eyed Stephen over at techwoo spotted the following in the LinkedIn profile of a Microsoft PM, which seems to indicate that Windows 8 will have some new networking features: Evaluating and collating technical and business requirements for developing new networking features in Windows 8. Designing features, functional specification and prototype for Windows 8. I [...]
The following video was not created by Microsoft, but by a UI team in Copenhagen. It nevertheless still shows some amazing new user experience features that would really make Windows 8 an amazing advance in the Windows series. Check it out below! Copenhagen User Experience from Copenhagen Concept.
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