August 17, 2010
Tech blogger and programmer Raphael Rivera has opened a public poll on his website asking what features you want to see in Microsoft’s next operating system, Windows 8, due in 2012. The poll is extremely comprehensive and includes all types of features that users have been clamouring for. These include support for different form factors [...]
August 7, 2010
Microsoft got a great deal right with Windows 7, there can be no argument about this. The one thing that constantly strikes me about it is how I tend to leave it largely unmodified. With Windows XP I’d have all sorts of tweaks and settings programs running. I’d have to change any number of annoying [...]
February 3, 2010
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 [...]
January 31, 2010
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 [...]
October 10, 2009
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. [...]
October 9, 2009
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 [...]