The initial growth for Windows 10 has been huge, just since July 132 million computers have been upgraded for free to Microsoft’s latest OS. But after just three months the adoption rate has been slowing down since the launch three months ago. This information has come from a report published today by Net Applications which also states that Windows 10 has a user share of 7.9% – which in October alone it […]
As a Mac user I’ve probably been spoilt with consistently clear text and proper scaling but since using Windows 10, I’ve seen numerous issues with scaling and DPI. Good news though, as the computer world is shifting towards full 1080p screens and 4K and sometimes 5K – the software needs to be able to cope with the added real estate and make sure everything scales correctly and doesn’t appear blurry. Today Microsoft have […]
It’s not news anymore that the PC industry is doing badly. Just earlier in this year in July figures were released that overall PC sales were dropping 10-12% every year, whereas Mac sales were surging ahead with 5-6% extra market share in the second quarter of 2014 and 7.8% in Q2 2015. In fact Lenovo, HP and Dell haven’t done that well. Dell had a negative growth of -8.7% ad HP […]
As it seems, Microsoft is basically forcing people running Windows 7 and Windows 8 to upgrade to the latest release, Windows 10. Just recently it has been revealed that the company has been forcing the update on people, in occasion without any prior warning. This comes from a report published by Ars Technica which contains details that Microsoft changed the optional tick box to be ticket so that when someone updated their […]
On Tuesday, Microsoft hosted an event filled with new hardware and updates from the new Surface Pro to new Limited Edition Xbox models. One of these new products completely contradicts with what Microsoft has previously said about the laptop, the Surface Book. Last year, with the launch of the larger and more versatile Surface Pro 3, Microsoft pitched it as “the laptop to replace your laptop.” This year, Microsoft did […]
As we reported last week, the next big version of Office is now available to download and this release feels like Office 2013, but cleaned up and designed for Windows 10 in mind. The number one feature that Microsoft has highlighted is collaboration, Office 2016 enable teamwork in a few ways. Working together In Office 2016, Microsoft has introduced real time editing, similar to Google Docs and in fact Office […]
On Friday, Microsoft and the rest of the Windows Insider Team announced a new build of Windows 10, 10547 almost a month after the previous version. The last build fixed a few bugs but also a new design for the right click option and mostly design changes. This new build actually makes some significant changes for the usability as well as a few design tweaks to the start menu and […]
Windows 8.1 RT was an odd beast when it launched with the Surface RT in 2012, it never did much and users couldn’t download anything from the web, only the limited Windows Store, which still doesn’t have all the apps you need. It was launched to compete with the iPad – having an app store and near the end of its shelf life it was undercutting Apple’s offering. But with an […]
The next big release of Office is coming in the next few weeks, Office 2016 will start rolling out on September 2016. This new version Office is pretty big with new features such as real time editing like Google Docs does as well as OneDrive attachments in Outlook. Also this version is built for Windows 10 and works like it as well with upgrade cycles and plans which match Windows 10 […]
Windows 10 is doing extremely well at the moment, with being only just two weeks into the new operating system being available, today it already has 3.78% market share – it’s working its way to be a huge hit. Originally launched two weeks ago on the 29th July, two days later we reported that 14m people had already downloaded it. Opinion: Windows 8 sucked. Back in April 2013, statistics revealed […]
