Dell remains committed to Microsoft’s Windows RT, despite the poor market reception to the OS and a decline in prices …
Windows 8 adoption slowly climbs
Barely five months after its release, Windows 8 has captured 3.17 percent of the desktop operating systems market, though it …
Give your website the Windows 8 makeover
Buried within Windows 8 are little-known features that can give your website a prominent presence alongside the apps on any …
‘Ditch Windows RT,’ says IDC
Microsoft‘s two-pronged push into the tablet market, consisting of the Windows RT and Windows 8 operating systems, confuses customers, an …
Samsung exec hits out at Windows 8
The grumbling of PC makers is getting louder with Windows 8 doing little to spark laptop sales. The latest complaints …
Windows 8 uptake slows again
Windows 8’s uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, an analytics company said today. According to Net …
Microsoft releases IE10 for Windows 7
After nearly two years of testing, Microsoft has officially released Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7. Internet Explorer 10 for Windows …
Hortonworks ports Windows version of Hadoop
Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops, it was reported on Monday. The …
Microsoft to drop support for Windows 7 RTM
Microsoft last week reminded customers that the first edition of Windows 7, which was launched more than three years ago, …
Adobe Reader exploit ‘part of cyber espionage operation’
The head of the malware analysis team at antivirus vendor Kaspersky said last week that a recently found exploit that …
Are 8 Windows more shatterproof than 7?
So far, the evidence suggests Windows 8 has hardly been the gleaming success that Microsoft no doubt hoped it would …
Windows Store app releases all but halt
A picture is worth a thousand words; the grey line in a graph from MetroStore Scanner, a site that keeps unofficial …
Windows 8 adoption worse than Vista’s – report
Net Application’s January desktop usage data was released last week, showing that Windows 8 adoption has been worse than Vista’s …
Chromebook sales please Acer as Windows 8 still lags
Acer’s still hoping for Windows 8 sales to take off, but in the meantime, the company has been pleasantly surprised …
Experts slam Oracle over Java
Oracle must dramatically step up its security game, security experts said this week, following the release of a number of …
UNB upgrades to Windows 8
Microsoft Gulf and Union National Bank (UNB) on Monday announced a partnership that will see UNB upgrade parts of its …
Review: Sony Xperia P
Sony’s Xperia P is far from a flagship smartphone, and, having been released early last year, it is ageing quickly. …
IE10 for Windows 7 nears public release
According to a report published on Friday, Microsoft is almost ready to release Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) for Windows 7, …
Microsoft responds to Internet Explorer vulnerability
Microsoft will deviate from its regular Internet Explorer repair schedule today by releasing a patch for older versions of its …
IDC: PC sales slump blame lies with Windows 8
According to IDC, Windows 8 should shoulder part of the blame for a worse-than-expected dip in Q4 PC sales because it …