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Windows 8 Users: Here’s What’s Coming in the First Big Update

Do you use Windows 8? You’re about to get an update to Windows 8.1. Microsoft’s Jensen Harris shows off some of the changes in the above 4.5-minute video. The topics covered are, in order: Lock screen ...

Mail, Calendar, People, and Messaging apps for Windows 8 updated, now with better performance

A new update is now available for Windows 8 and Windows RT users for Microsoft’s Mail, Calendar, People, and Messaging apps. Aside from general performance improvements in all four apps, Microsoft has ...
ZDNet

Windows 8 lives again on Linux, and I'm just as confused by it as you

A Linux developer has created a Windows 8 DE. Win8DE looks very much like Windows 8. This new desktop is still in alpha stages. Remember Windows 8? I'm sure I can guess what you remember from that ...

Microsoft rolls out Surface Pro firmware update in preparation for Windows 8.1

Microsoft has rolled out a firmware update for the Surface Pro in preparation for the upcoming Windows 8.1 release on October 17th. The Surface RT, on the other hand, received no firmware update and ...
Digital Trends

I hope these 3 long-lost Microsoft Windows 8 features stay gone forever

If you used a Windows computer in the early 2010s, chances are you experienced Windows 8. Whether it was a good experience is another matter entirely, though. If you ask me, it was a bit of a disaster ...