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A Week With Windows 8: Day Six – Making 8 Work For Me

A Week With Windows 8: Day Six – Making 8 Work For Me
August 29, 2012 5 Comments »

First off guys, I’d like to apologise for not updating this series sooner. I went out last night with a really good friend of mine for a belated birthday celebration as it was my birthday last week but he was ... Read More »

A Week With Windows 8: Day Five – Personalisation

A Week With Windows 8: Day Five – Personalisation
August 27, 2012 2 Comments »

In Ubuntu the possibilities for personalisation are almost limitless, one persons installation of Ubuntu may look completely different from anothers. You can change icons, fonts, themes, wallpapers, even the whole desktop environment! The options in Windows are usually a lot ... Read More »

A Week With Windows 8: Day Four – Getting To Know 8

A Week With Windows 8: Day Four – Getting To Know 8
August 26, 2012 5 Comments »

So I’ve been using Windows 8 constantly now for four days and I’m starting to get used to it. That doesn’t mean however that I am starting to like it. I’m finding myself basically staying away from Metro as much ... Read More »

A Week With Windows 8: Day Three – A Users Perspective

A Week With Windows 8: Day Three – A Users Perspective
August 25, 2012 2 Comments »

So I’m a techie and somewhat of a Windows expert – so I wanted to get a ‘normal users’ point of view about how well Windows 8 works. Last night I gave this laptop to my girlfriend Jenny to work ... Read More »

A Week With Windows 8: Day Two – Performance

A Week With Windows 8: Day Two – Performance
August 24, 2012 2 Comments »

So I’ve now got my apps and data on my new Windows 8 installation. So in this post I’m going to concentrate on the performance on Windows 8. As I touched on in the original post I’m running Windows 8 on ... Read More »

A Week With Windows 8: Day One – Finding My Feet

A Week With Windows 8: Day One – Finding My Feet
August 23, 2012 8 Comments »

Ok, so I’ve been running Windows 8 on my laptop for 24 hours now and so far I am finding it very difficult to use. I would say that my productivity has gone down by at least 50% during the ... Read More »

A Week With Windows 8

A Week With Windows 8
August 20, 2012 4 Comments »

Windows 8 hasn’t exactly got the best rep at the moment. The general consensus amongst most IT professionals and users alike is that Windows 8 is a disaster waiting to happen. A while back I wrote a review on Windows ... Read More »

Microsoft’s Outlook.com Upgrade Causes Problems For Users

Microsoft’s Outlook.com Upgrade Causes Problems For Users
August 6, 2012 13 Comments »

A few days ago, I wrote about how Microsoft have upgraded their free email platform Hotmail to a new service dubbed Outlook.com. I mentioned in the article that I found Outlook to be very clean an modern looking; but with ... Read More »