Yesterday Microsoft announced the naming and SKUs for Windows 8 which was previously only a codename. There will be three main versions of the software distributed when the operating system is released; these will be Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro (both for X86 and X64) and Windows RT (for ARM). There will in fact be [...]

Today I have read several posts about how Microsoft has pretty much confirmed that Windows Phone 7 apps will work on Windows Phone 8 and equally that developers will only need to be concerned with how their Windows Phone 7 apps look if they choose to make them work on Windows 8. This backs up [...]

This is response to Five Reasons why Windows 8 will be dead on arrival. I imagine that in 2016 more people will be running Windows 7 than Windows 8 but despite this fact I doubt that Windows 8 will be a failure, in fact I expect it to do well. It might not be perceived [...]

Update: Sadly it would appear that all these “screenshots”, as good as they are all only concept images. You can see more like them on DeviantArt. Today I saw some new screenshots from Windows 8 that all come from the Metro part of Windows. Now I don’t know if these images are real screenshots or [...]

Confucius once said: If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. I think that quote sums up my feelings towards Windows 8’s current name. To me Windows 8 is not just a progression of the Windows OS or indeed its brand but it is actually far more [...]

A lot of people have seen the Metro UI of Windows 8 and thought that it will be no good for mouse and keyboard interaction however there really is no need to spend any time in the Metro UI of Windows 8. To prove this to myself as much as anything I tried using Windows [...]

So after only using Windows 8 for the past day and having watched the BUILD keynote I have already some ideas for minor tweak and features in Windows 8 that from a consumer’s UI point of view would be good. First up is an idea I have already shared once before, long before I even [...]

So as I said last night Winrumors had info about a new version of Bing for Windows 8 tablets and today Tom Warren, of Winrumors, has shared a link to the new Bing. The address is Bing.com/bingwin. As you can see the homepage image is not quite working working properly. Also the information boxes are [...]

This is very interesting, WinRumors is reporting that they have uncovered information about a new web app for Bing that will be released to coincide with the BUILD event next week in which Windows 8 will be spoken about. I reported earlier that the Bing homepage had received an update but that it wasn’t the [...]

I was looking around deviantart earlier today when I stumbled upon a video I hadn’t seen of Bing. As far as I can tell this video is real and it actually fits in well with some of the images I’ve seen for the next version of Bing. is in a perpetual state of “coming soon”. [...]