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In need of a new computer, but holding out because you don’t want to be saddled with a last-gen OS when Windows 8 lands? Worry not potential consumers, Microsoft plans to offer a cheap upgrade path to its latest and greatest if you buy in now. Well, not now, but soon.
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Microsoft to offer $15 Windows 8 upgrade, when you buy a Win7 PC
We suppose Microsoft didn’t have to make Windows 8 play nice with the new rash of extremely pixel-dense displays . But, that would be tantamount to OS suicide. So, we’re not particularly surprised to hear that the latest and greatest Windows will support resolutions up to 2560 x 1440 on screens as small as 10.1 inches
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Shocker: Windows 8 will be ‘retina’ display friendly
Microsoft’s finally unleashed its consumer preview of Windows 8 and while we’re sure plenty of your questions were answered in our highly-detailed overview , nothing beats giving it a blast for yourself. So what are your thought so far? Is this the future destined for that Ultrabook you’ve had your eyes on
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Poll: Did you download the Windows 8 preview?
If you’re Microsoft and in the process of overhauling Windows so that it’s equally at home on PCs and tablets, it would make sense to unveil a semi-final version at the world’s premier wireless show. That’s exactly what’s going to happen tomorrow, when the company’s executive team takes the stage here in Barcelona to show off all the changes it’s made to Win8 since we got hands-on with the Developer Preview five months ago
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Today is the day fine folks — Kinect for Windows is here.
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Microsoft Kinect for Windows version 1.0 available today
Hungry for a shiny new file system? Windows 8′s got your back, or at least, Windows server 8 will. In his latest Building Windows 8 post, Steven Sinofsky introduces the Resilient File System, or ReFS, as a “next generation file system” built on the foundations of the NTFS
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Microsoft introducing ReFS file system with Windows server 8
Microsoft has launched an attack on beleaguered electronics retailer Comet — stating that the British chain pirated 94,000 copies of Vista and XP recovery discs. Comet, which was recently sold off for £2 ($3), allegedly produced the copies at a factory in Hampshire and bundled them with PCs sold at its stores.
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Microsoft: UK Retailer ‘sold 94,000 counterfeit copies of Windows’
Super Diet Genius plans your meals based on super-healthy superfoods. (Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET) Diet apps are a dime a dozen
With E3 2012 right around the corner, Reggie and co. want to make sure your oft-distracted eyes catch every drip drop of the impending Wii U news flood.
Sufficiently enamored with Samsung’s Galaxy S III that you’ve got to have one in the US before anyone else, and you don’t want it sullied by carrier customizations in the trip across the Pacific?
We can’t be certain as to how many units of the HTC EVO 4G LTE have made it out of customs thus far, but it appears the number is high enough for Sprint to officially set a date for shipping the device out to those who pre-ordered it online. A Sprint representative reached out to us to share the company’s statement from this afternoon that customers should expect to receive their valuable treasure “on or around” May 24th. We’re not in love with the “around” terminology, but this could simply be due to a high amount of demand.
The digital gTar never needs tuning. (Credit: Incident Technologies) At first glance, a digital guitar with the brains of a super-powered smartphone and illuminated fretboard seems like a product that could change everything about guitar instrumentation
(Credit: Pentax) I have to admit: the $900 Pentax K-30 dSLR sounds like a pretty promising replacement for the K-r. Rugged on the outside with the potential for the same excellent photo quality as the K-01 mirrorless ILC, claimed faster autofocus performance than the already fast K-5, and a 100 percent coverage viewfinder that you usually only see in more expensive models all add up to a possibly great start to the Pentax-Ricoh era. Though it’s not “durable” in the same sense as bodies like the Nikon D4 or Canon EOS-1D X , with parts designed to withstand heavy photographic abuse, the K-30 offers weather-and-dust resistance, with claims of usability down to 14 degrees (most cameras only guarantee down to 32 degrees); that said, Pentax makes no claims about battery life at those temperatures.
House After eight seasons, the run of Gregory House MD comes to an end on Fox tonight with a double episode. While we’ll miss Hugh Laurie fumbling around on our American TV screens every week, it definitely felt like time for the series to come to an end. We’ll see how Wilson’s cancer diagnosis wraps up and if any other old characters stop by after Thirteen popped up last week, although we will avoid throwing back a Vicodin just for old time’s sake.
You wait for one Thunderbolt-compatible motherboard and then two decide to arrive on the same day.
Never one to focus exclusively on the very latest hardware , a new mod has brought an 6502 microprocessor to a Minecraft world near you. The system is made from three separate cubes, representing the CPU, monitor and disk drive, respectively, all connected by ribbon cables. Part of pre-release 5 of the RedPower 2 mod, programmer Eloraam has also thrown in pumps and solar panels to keep crafters busy — you’re no longer limited to light switches
Come summer, the 4G LTE-ready Motorola Droid Maxx will also be global-ready. Wondering when you can take your Verizon Android phone overseas without hassle?
