Author Archive for Mike Halsey
The author of the new Windows 7 Power Users Guide. You can follow Mike on Twitter or on his own website The Long Climb
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 [...]
What does the iPad mean for the Windows 8 interface?
The reinvention of the tablet PC by Apple this week could have significant ramifications for Microsoft during the development of Windows 8, and impact the look and feel of their next OS considerably.
I think it’s brilliant that we’re now looking at a very near future where I can lounge around on the sofa with the [...]
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 [...]
