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Posted on: Aug 17, 2012 14:39:45 IST
 
 
On August 1, Microsoft released Windows 8 to PC manufacturers. Starting August 15, developers can download this final build of the operating system from TechNet or MSDN and reviewers like me are finally allowed to write about the near-final version of Microsoft's big gamble for the future of Windows. The public release of the operating system and PCs running it won't happen until its General Availability on October 26. I got an early look, and tested the latest version of the OS by upgrading an Intel-based Windows 8 Samsung tablet to RTM. The public can still get a pretty close idea of what Microsoft's re-imagining of Windows is like by downloading the Release Preview and installing it on any Windows 7–capable hardware.Never has there been a more apt application of the acronym...
 
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Announcing the devworx Adroit Contest!
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[Interview] Danny Winokur, VP and GM, Platforms, Adobe
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App development with a heart!
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Third Party Browsers Blocked on Windows 8 for ARM?
[Interview] Shabir Momin - creator of ZengaTV
A Guide to impress.js - Create Amazing Web Standard Presentations
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Posted on: Aug 31, 2011 19:29:35 IST
 
 
As we approach the Microsoft BUILD conference next month, Microsoft continues to uncover details about Windows 8, the company's most significant desktop operating system in over a decade, according to the project's leader, Steven Sinofsky.Today on the Building Windows 8 blog, a post by Alex Simons of the Windows program management team describes how the Windows Explorer file manager window would look. As earlier rumors speculated, it will indeed include the Office-like "ribbon" toolbar. The measured release of Windows 8 details stands in sharp contrast to the jolt with which the OS was first demoed simultaneously at two conferences last spring.As Sinofsky puts in in a preamble to the post, "Windows 8 is about reimagining Windows, so we took on the challenge to...
 
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