The enhanced classic Start menu is going to make a comeback in Windows 8.1, as confirmed by Microsoft at its Build developer conference in California early April 2014. In fact, Terry Myerson, the head of Microsoft’s Operating System division demoed the “new” Start menu to the audience during the conference.
The number of CPU instruction sets has kept growing, and likewise for the operating systems which are able to run and support on more than one CPU system architecture. For example, a Linux OS such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux, openSUSE and CentOS can run on Intel or AMD CPU in either 32-bit or 64-bit flavor. In addition, some Linux also […]
Microsoft has officially released the Windows 8.1 Update (previously known as Spring Update or Update 1) for MSDN and TechNet subscribers (if you still have active subscription and access to TechNet Subscriber Downloads which unfortunately no longer been offered) during the Build 2014 conference. The release includes both the Windows 8.1 Update package and pre-compiled slipstreamed Windows 8.1 with Update ISO images for various editions […]
If you’re a programmer, it’s definitely a great help if you’re able to look at and study the source code of well known commercial products such as Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office productivity suite. And now you have the chance to download and play with the source code of two most important pioneering application programs in the 1980s era – MS-DOS and Word […]
Microsoft OneNote is a popular free-form note taking, information gathering and multi-user collaboration sofware application. OneNote can collect and save many information, including users’ notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, sketches, screen clippings, web pages, photos, videos, audio commentaries and files. And the Notes can be saved to the cloud to sync across all your devices, and collaborated in real-time or shared with other OneNote users […]
When opening a Microsoft Office 2013 application such as Excel 2013, Word 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Publisher 2013, Visio 2013 and etc, the Office program displays a list of recently opened documents on the left pane. In addition, the list of recent documents, recent workbooks, recent presentations, recent publications, recent drawings and other recent files is also displayed when user selects the Open from File in […]
VLC media player from VideoLAN is now been ported to Windows 8, to the joy of users who love the touch-based Metro environment. VLC media player is one of the most popular cross-platform open source media player thanks to its ability to play almost any and every kind of audio and video formats. It has built-in support for many audio and video compression methods and […]
Hard disk running Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 operating system is running out of space? While it seems like an unlikely event with today’s hard disk drive which normally comes with terabytes (TB) of storage space. But not all systems enjoys such a luxury. For example, Microsoft Surface and Microsoft Surface Pro start from just 64GB of storage space, while other Windows tablet may be […]
With the popularity of iPhone, iPad, iPad mini and Mac OS X systems, and previously the iPod, many people has now purchased and owned media content on the iTunes Store. Apple’s iTunes Store has grown from an online music store in iPod era to one-stop online marketplace for digital entertainment, selling contents ranging from music, movies, TV shows, music videos, ringtones, books, audiobooks, and applications.
Bluetooth is one of the convenient way to connect Bluetooth enabled devices, such as mobile phones, Bluetooth-enabled mouse, Bluetooth-enabled keyboard, headsets, speakers, printers and etc, to your PC wirelessly. Most modern PCs equipped with built-in Bluetooth wireless technology, which would normally be turned on by default for system with Windows operating system.
While desktop environment of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 continues to provide an advanced way to configure and personalize the Windows settings, the Modern or Metro Windows 8 user interface now adds an easy way to configure several essential personalization and system settings. More importantly, PC Settings is the only way for Windows RT users to configure to configure their system.
The official release of Windows 8.1 Spring 2014 Update, also known as Windows 8.1 Feature Pack, is scheduled to release via Windows Update from April 8th, 2014. But if you can’t wait, and does not want to download leaked Windows 8.1 Update, seea has discovered that a simple registry hack will allow Windows Update or Microsoft Update to offer you the Windows 8.1 Spring 2014 […]
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