Archive for the 'Windows 8' Category

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview download & system requirements

September 15 2011No Commented

Categorized Under: Visual Studio, Windows 8

At the Windows Build conference Microsoft previewed, developer tool Visual studio 11 and Expression blend. Visual Studio 11 can be used to optimize the development environment of Visual studio and develop Metro based applications for Windows 8. Visual Studio 11 system requirements are as follows : Supported Architectures: 32-bit (x86) 64-bit (x64) Supported Operating Systems: [...]

Professional Developer Conference 1991- 2010 timeline

May 29 2011No Commented

Categorized Under: Microsoft Events, Windows 8

The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is an event that Microsoft organizes on regular basis focused on the technical strategy of the Microsoft developer platform. the event pushes latest updates of development platform from Microsoft and the Attendees from around the world learn about the Microsoft developer platform directly from the people who make it happen. [...]

Sneak peek of what’s coming in Windows Live Movie Maker

July 24 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: MS News, Windows 7, Windows 8

Last month, the Windows Live Movie Maker team made a blog post with a status update on what’s been happening to Movie Maker. To give you a recap, in the post Mike Torres offered some glimpses of what to expect from the new version, including more rich-editing capabilities (more transitions, trim, split, multiple soundtracks), “some [...]

Windows 8 Codename “Midori” is on the way

July 16 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: MS News, Windows 8

Microsoft is finally ready to release Windows 7 RTM build, but i have noticed that in backstage MSFT is also cooking Windows 8 which is in Pre-Alpha stage. From the secret source, I have collected Screenshots and Bild tags. The build tags looks promising after having eyes to the screenshots attached below. build tags of [...]

Windows GUI between 1981-2009

May 7 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: MS News, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP

A Graphical User Interface (GUI for short) allows users to interact with the computer hardware in a user friendly way. Over the years a range of GUI’s have been developed for different operating systems such as OS/2, Macintosh, Windowsamiga, Linux, Symbian OS, and more. We’ll be taking a look at the evolution of the interface [...]

An open letter to Microsoft on Windows 8

May 7 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: MS News, Registry, Windows, Windows 8

Dear Microsoft, Congratulations on recently releasing the Windows 7 release candidate. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s shaping into an excellent product and I have given my reasons why I think people should upgrade. But let’s pause for a moment and look ahead to your supposed next version of Windows, Windows 8, since it’s already in [...]

Microsoft: Windows 8 Major Improvements Beginning Soon

April 20 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Windows 8

Microsoft: Windows 8 Major Improvements Beginning Soon Microsoft is gearing up to debut what it referred to as major improvements for Windows 8, designed to take file access in branch offices to the next level. Even if Windows 7 is still in pre-RC stage, with the Escrow for the Win 7 Release Candidate, Build 7077, [...]

Windows 8 Already Cooking, Beyond Windows 7

March 11 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Internet Explorer, Windows 8

Windows 7 Release Candidate is at most a couple of months away, with April 2009 as deadline, while the RTM could be reached within half a year, as early as August, but Microsoft is looking beyond the next iteration of the Windows platform. That’s right, Windows 8 is already cooking over in Redmond, with the [...]