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The first public pre-Beta release of Windows 8 is designed to spark developer interest for the platform, as the “Developer Preview” label shows.
Microsoft stressed on several occasions that early adopters were still to exercise their patience until the core user experience of Windows 8 would be complete... |
25 October 2011
10:55 GMT |
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The first public testing Build of Windows 8 is one month old today. Windows Developer Preview, a Milestone 3 (M3) release of Windows 8, was launched at BUILD on September 13, 2011.
According to statistics shared by Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer on the second day of the BUILD event, Build 8... |
13 October 2011
09:31 GMT |
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I was sold on an iPad 2 before I left for the BUILD conference last week. I told my friends I’d get one. I had gone through all the pros and cons. “I couldn’t wait” to, all of a sudden, be upgraded to a new level coolness.Then, on a small one hour break from BUILD when I couldn’t find a... |
24 September 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3) has been available for download for more than a week now, and news of the upcoming Windows client from Microsoft is bound to have reverberated around the world.
The first taste of Windows 8, offered at BUILD, was certainly met with a great deal of enthusias... |
23 September 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Microsoft promised that metro would be much more than just about the UI in Windows 8, and at BUILD last week, the Redmond company certainly delivered on that promise. Essentially, Metro is a new development platform included in the next iteration of Windows, designed to support next generation, immersive applications... |
22 September 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Run Windows 8 on a dedicated machine in order to properly test the operating system. This is Microsoft’s advice for the testers. At the same time, the Redmond company is well aware that there are a large number of early adopters that have already deployed Windows 8 as a guest operating system inside a virtual m... |
19 September 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Developers had to pay good money in order to attend BUILD and for a week be at the center of the Windows 8 universe. But those that did not get to set foot inside the Anaheim Convention Center can still access the content shared by Microsoft at its recent Windows 8-centric event. Visiting BuildWindows.com, the confer... |
19 September 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Microsoft released the first developer preview of the Windows 8 client on the first day of BUILD, and now the company is doing the same with the next major iteration of Windows Server. Windows Server 8 Developer Preview is currently available for download via MSDN. Of course, only those devs who actually subscribe t... |
14 September 2011
12:31 GMT |
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As most of you know by now, Microsoft offered approximately 5,000 free Samsung Windows 8 Developer Preview devices to just as many developers attending BUILD, its Windows 8-centric event. Actually, both Microsoft and Samsung are calling this device a PC and not a slate. Having played with it for the last 24 hours no... |
14 September 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Early adopters should get ready for the first taste of Windows 8, and no, it’s not the Beta development milestone. Instead, as I was expecting, Microsoft is sharing a pre-Beta Milestone 3 (M3) release of the next major version of the Windows client. What the software giant is offering testers is a Windows Dev... |
13 September 2011
12:40 GMT |
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The Windows Store is not available as a part of the Windows Developer Preview, but this is not a reason for early adopters not to start building applications tailored to the next major version of Windows. Microsoft will release Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3) this week, providing devs with bo... |
13 September 2011
12:15 GMT |
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While it’s true that the traditional desktop is somewhat pushed to the background in Windows 8, being transformed into the equivalent of an application, launching only if the user actually needs it, it also brings with it a new feature that has long been at the top of users’ wish lists for Windows. Micro... |
13 September 2011
12:14 GMT |
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Windows To Go is a special flavor of Windows 8 designed to provide unmatched mobility to users. Essentially, Microsoft took Windows 8 and put the operating system on a USB key. The OS can boot right from the flash drive and offer a fully functional copy of Windows 8. According to Iain McDonald, director of Program ... |
13 September 2011
12:12 GMT |
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In addition to the Metro style applications that are essentially an NUI-catalyzed evolution of the traditional desktop programs, customers running the next version of Windows will also be able to use Metro style device apps.Metro device apps are a new addition to the Windows client, also designed to take advantage o... |
13 September 2011
12:11 GMT |
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Developers will be able to leverage a range of technologies to build applications tailored to Windows 8, including immersive apps for the new Metro platform. According to Microsoft, technologies such as JavaScript, C++, C#, Visual Basic but also HTML5 and CSS3 are available to devs looking to build Windows 8 program... |
13 September 2011
12:11 GMT |
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By now, the 8 seconds Windows 8 boot video demo is bound to be familiar to folks following the evolution of the next version of Windows, including Softpedia readers. What Microsoft did not reveal when it made the startup demonstration public is the fact that the amazing level of performance is achieved even despite ... |
13 September 2011
12:11 GMT |
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Anaheim will be the center of the Windows universe all of this week, with the Windows 8-centric BUILD conference kicking off as scheduled tomorrow, September 13th, at 9:00 AM PT. Microsoft plans to share a preview of Windows 8, as well as product plans with developers attending the event, the company confirmed at th... |
13 September 2011
02:14 GMT |
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In just a few days Microsoft will show the world how Windows 8 changes everything. BUILD is the event that the company set up especially to share the first details of its most ambitious endeavor since the launch of Windows 95. Softpedia will be attending the conference and making sure you have the kind of access tha... |
10 September 2011
07:51 GMT |
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Microsoft has yet to announce the official brand for the next version of Visual Studio, but there are chances that it could be Visual Studio 11.
There’s no official confirmation from the software giant on what the successor of Visual Studio 2010 will be labeled, with the company still referring to it as Vi... |
8 September 2011
09:51 GMT |
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In parallel with the development of Windows 8, Microsoft is also building the next major iteration of Visual Studio, the successor of Visual Studio 2010. It should be obvious that just as VS 2010 was connected to Windows 7, Visual Studio vNext will be offered for developers to build applications for Windows 8. Micro... |
6 September 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Aspects of the file management experience in Windows 8, which has been overhauled already, will continue to be tweaked even further.
Microsoft is gearing up to increase the number of early adopters who are granted access to the Windows 8 testing program, and the company stresses that the operating system is stil... |
6 September 2011
04:51 GMT |
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The Windows 8 Metro user interface demos that Microsoft has shared with the public so far need to be considered representative of only the tip of the Metro iceberg.
There’s much more to Metro than just a pretty UI, according to Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows and Windows Live Division.
Only the sur... |
5 September 2011
08:24 GMT |
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The BUILD Windows 8-centric conference is now approximately a week away, and mum’s the word on the event’s details.
The Agenda page continues to offer only the most general of info, but nothing on the sessions scheduled for next week.
BUILD sold out completely even if the software giant shared n... |
5 September 2011
03:33 GMT |
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One way to ensure that there will never again be a five year gap between Windows releases, as with XP and Vista, is for Microsoft to start work on a new iteration of its platform even before the latest version is finalized. This happened with Windows 8, which the software giant confirmed that it started planning for... |
1 September 2011
09:18 GMT |
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While Microsoft has yet to make public the session list for BUILD, the company’s Windows 8’centric event will be much more than just about Windows 8. It will also be about the next major iteration of Visual Studio, for example. At least this seems to be what Microsoft’s Zain Naboulsi (author of the ... |
1 September 2011
08:34 GMT |
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It’s right about time for the release of a new preview of Internet Explorer 10 if you ask me, although Microsoft is keeping mum on the evolution of the next major iteration of IE.
The first Platform Preview of IE10 was released in mid-April 2011, almost immediately after the general availability deadline of ... |
31 August 2011
10:40 GMT |
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Microsoft has started opening up more and more on the next major iteration of Windows, but despite all the information made public on the official blog for the development efforts around the operating system, the company still has to reveal details about how Windows 8 will “change everything.”The officia... |
29 August 2011
03:17 GMT |
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Windows 8 is on track for general availability by the end of 2012, although Microsoft has yet to confirm a specific deadline for the commercial launch, but the company has already started offering training content. It’s the case of the “BELUX - Framing Windows 8 with the Flexible Workstyle pitch” s... |
26 August 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Microsoft will reportedly hand out free Windows 8 tablets / slates to BUILD participants, an event focused on the next major iteration of the Windows client. The info comes from one of the people attending the Microsoft Tech Ed New Zealand show, Alan Burchill, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, who posted pictu... |
26 August 2011
03:28 GMT |
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August 24 2011 is not only the 10th anniversary since Windows XP was released to manufacturing but also the day when Windows 95 turns 16. Six years ahead of the release to manufacturing deadline of Windows XP, Microsoft launched Windows 95, an operating system which it had developed under the codename Chicago. In ad... |
24 August 2011
10:39 GMT |
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Microsoft will open registration for BUILD, its upcoming Windows 8-centric event, in just three weeks, but so far it’s still impossible for participants to tell what they’ll be registering for. The BUILD conference has already been completely sold out on just the promise that Windows 8 will be its star a... |
22 August 2011
10:59 GMT |
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The number of testers with access to pre-release copies of Windows 8 is bound to increase as the development process moves forward and approaches the Beta stage.Microsoft has confirmed that it will deliver the first deep insight into Windows 8 in mid-September 2011 at its BUILD Windows conference, and the software gi... |
20 August 2011
11:31 GMT |
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It’s been quite a while since the last leak of a Windows 8 pre-release Build, or since new unofficial details about the upcoming release of Windows have made it into the wild, but this stopped with Windows 8 Build 8064. Three screenshots from Windows 8 Build 8064, included at the bottom of this article, as wel... |
17 August 2011
09:46 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to broaden the pool of early adopters that have been testing Windows 8. A pre-release development milestone of Windows 8 will be made available to more testers than ever before in the next few months, Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division confirmed at the start of this... |
16 August 2011
02:36 GMT |
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A new video boasting to reveal Windows 8 to the public, but actually failing to deliver on that promise, is now available on YouTube. As the hunger for Windows 8 details grows to insatiable levels, Microsoft continues to keep mum on the next major iteration of the Windows client. The software giant has pointed to t... |
12 August 2011
05:17 GMT |
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The first Windows 8 video made public by Microsoft approximately two months ago has passed the 5 million views mark.‘Building "Windows 8" - Video #1’ was viewed 5,018,802 times according to the official statistics shared by YouTube, with user interest growing steadily over the course of the past months, ... |
11 August 2011
03:34 GMT |
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Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8-centric event scheduled approximately a month from now will not start with the usual dose of pre-sessions that participants at the Redmond company’s conferences must already be familiar with. Whether it was the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) or TechEd, or a number... |
10 August 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Windows 8 has yet to reach the Beta development milestone, even though Microsoft is approaching the moment when it will deliver the first deep insight into the next major iteration of its Windows client. Sources familiar with the evolution of Windows 7’s successor reveal that Windows 8 is still in the Mileston... |
8 August 2011
03:52 GMT |
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Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8-centric event scheduled for mid-September 2011 has already been sold out, as Softpedia readers have already found out earlier this week. With BUILD online registration no longer available, this means that there are bound to be quite a few developers, IT professionals, etc. ... |
3 August 2011
08:20 GMT |
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The BUILD Windows conference, an event focused on Windows 8, Microsoft’s next generation Windows client, has already sold out. Users that make their way to the registration page of the website set up for the BUILD Windows will now be greeted with the following message: “BUILD Online Registration is Sold ... |
1 August 2011
10:53 GMT |
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Whether Microsoft will serve the fully-fledged Beta development milestone or a pre-Beta Build for the first public testing preview of Windows 8 is still pretty much anybody’s guess. The software giant pointed to the BUILD conference in mid-September 2011 for the first deep insight into the successor of Windows... |
25 July 2011
06:28 GMT |
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Microsoft is planning to introduce updates to the content available on the Windows Desktop Developer Center.According to the Content Project Manager for the Windows Developer Center, the updated resources are planned to go live quite soon, as soon as this week in fact. At the time of this article the Windows Deskto... |
25 July 2011
05:19 GMT |
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For the second time in the space of a couple of weeks, Windows 8’s strategic importance was stressed by Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer. At the Rotary Club of Seattle on June 29th, 2011, Ballmer made it clear that Windows 8 is considered a very important project. This was underlined the past w... |
11 July 2011
03:08 GMT |
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Ever since we were little kids we would build small houses from Lego or other plastic bricks and imagine ourselves getting inside. Our imagination was enough for that age, but as we grow older we realized there are other options to be had, Sweet Home 3D being one of them, and a free one at that.Sweet Home 3D is one o... |
21 June 2011
08:38 GMT |
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In less than three months, Microsoft will dish out everything about Windows 8, or at least this is the promise from a tweet on the BUILD Windows Twitter account (@bldwin). The evolution of the Professional Developers Conference was announced earlier this month, and the BUILD site has been live since the company&rsqu... |
16 June 2011
20:51 GMT |
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Once again, there’s just radio silence from Microsoft when it comes down to the next major iteration of Windows. Earlier this month the company shared the first official previews of Windows 8 at two technology-focused events, and with the video demos came the first details about the new operating system. A co... |
13 June 2011
03:09 GMT |
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Windows and Internet Explorer have traditionally formed an unmatched pair integration-wise, and although there have been successful efforts to break the two apart, users should expect the platform and browser marriage to continue with Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10. Come fall 2011, Microsoft is planning to provi... |
7 June 2011
03:07 GMT |
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With the Windows 8 development process approaching the Beta milestone, Microsoft is gearing up for the first public preview of the operating system. The Redmond company offered the first official taste of the next major version of Windows earlier this week with Julie Larson-Green, Corporate Vice President, Windows E... |
4 June 2011
04:03 GMT |
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Microsoft has given green light to the registration process for its Windows BUILD developer conference which is scheduled to take place in the fall of 2011. Some devs might be familiar with another of the company’s events reserved for them, the Professional Developers Conference, or PDC for short. Well, they ... |
2 June 2011
05:35 GMT |
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People usually end up running applications on their Mac that do not need any more fiddling than double clicking on their executable. However, sometimes you encounter a so-called source package that will give any newcomer nightmares for a very long time. Once you open the program’s source code folder and you see... |
9 November 2009
12:01 GMT |
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