October 26. How many of you have that marked on your calendars? If you don’t already know, October 26th is the official release date of Windows 8. Windows 8 is significant in that it is (in my humble opinion) the most significant change to Windows since Windows 95. Looking Back on Windows 95 I don’t even have to look up the date. I was so excited about it for so long. August 24th, 1995... »
So my final day with Windows 8 is over and I am writing this post back on my trusty Ubuntu 12.04 hard drive. I have to say that it’s so good to be back, I just feel back at home in Ubuntu. Everything is where I expect it to be, easy to find and quick! So what what have been my up’s and down’s during my week with Windows 8? The good… Well, this part of the article is going t... »
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 on holiday. Unfortunately we didn’t get home until around 04:30 in the morning, at which point I was in no fit state to even talk, let alone write a post. So I’m really so... »
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 more restrictive – maybe that’s all changed for Windows 8… Unfortunately not – the options in Window... »
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 as humanly possible, but here is what I’ve found so far… The Four Corners Each and every corner of Windows 8 has a different feature, which, so far as... »
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 with. Whilst she was playing around, I went out for a run to ensure that she had some time alone with Windows 8. Around 30 minutes later I come back to find a very unhappy Jenny. I a... »
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 my main laptop (HP Pavilion DM1, AMD dual core, 6GB RAM) so the performance should be pretty good – even if it isn’t though, as this is my main laptop, I can make a d... »
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 last day. But as the title says – I’m still finding my feet with it, so maybe things will get easier…I hope! So what have I been doing for the last day? Well the main thing I’ve bee... »