Tom Warren has reported on The Verge that the ARM version of Windows 8, contrary to many rumours is likely to come with the traditional desktop an not just the Metro interface. Don’t worry though, this wont be the full desktop experience but a restricted one that would require trusted certificates for ARM desktop applications. [...]

One of the few announcements Microsoft made at CES this year was that Kinect for Windows will be available from February 1st, in the US at least, for a hefty price tag of $250. As part of this announcements Microsoft also revealed that quite a few major companies are readying software to work with Kinect [...]

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 [...]

This is something I have been mulling over for the past few weeks and it’s something that might add credibility to rumours of a new Xbox within the next 2 years. This conclusion is formed of some of the facts we know about Windows 8 and the Xbox 360 and also quite a lot of [...]

Watching Windows Weekly this week I think the most confusing thing about “Xbox Live TV” seems to be that people don’t know what it is called. Microsoft don’t mention a single name for this new service in their press release but I don’t think there should be confusion about that, I think actually that these [...]

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 [...]

With news that Microsoft will be bringing Xbox Live to Windows 8 it got me thinking about what this could mean for Xbox Live and how it will change the service. Currently Xbox Live is available on the Xbox 360 and on Windows Phone, however they aren’t the same kind of service at all. On [...]

One Ecosystem for the consumers in every home, One for the gamers who like a test, One for the mobile Men who like to roam, One for the company in the US north west, In the Land of Redmond where the Geniuses lie. One Ecosystem to rule them all, One Ecosystem to find them, One [...]

Then you’ll be wanting to download this new theme from FediaFedia. If you’ve already tried Windows 8 out then you’ll have noticed that there are some differences in the Aero on it when compared to Windows 7 and from what I can tell this theme will bring these differences to your Windows 7 install. I [...]