Microsoft Unveils Its Next Operating System, Windows 8
New York Times (blog)
By JENNA WORTHAM | February 29, 2012, 10:23 am BARCELONA — Microsoft showed off the newest version of the company's operating system, called Windows 8, on Wednesday. Windows 8 is the biggest redesign of the company's software since Windows 95, ...
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Windows 8 Beta: Hands-on with Microsoft's tablet-friendly OS
CNET (blog)
The first beta of the next-gen operating system is eminently touchable, definitely social, and maybe just a bit sexy. But that doesn't mean it's a shoo-in as the belle of the ball. Windows 8 beta unifies desktop and tablet--but will people like it?
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Microsoft showcases latest operating system
RTE.ie
Microsoft has made the next version of its Windows operating system available to the public for the first time. Microsoft has made the next version of its Windows operating system available to the public for the first time today, as it tries to stake a ...
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Microsoft unveils Windows 8 for consumer testing, shows off new operating ...
Washington Post
BARCELONA, Spain — Microsoft is for the first time letting consumers try out its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, which it hopes will be used to power a new wave of computer tablets and traditional PCs. The test “beta” version of the revamped ...
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Highlights Metro Evolution
PC Magazine
It demonstrated how the operating system has changed since the developer preview was officially released at the Build conference last September. I had been skeptical about how well this would work on traditional desktops and notebooks but the new build ...
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RIM to Put Messenger on Tablet With New Operating System
San Francisco Chronicle
29 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd., seeking to revive sales of the PlayBook tablet, will incorporate its popular instant-messaging program into the device by the time it debuts a new operating system in the latter part of 2012.
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Mozilla's 'modest' proposal: Dump the smartphone OS
InfoWorld
"Dump the operating system. All of them." But unlike the famous essay by British satirist Jonathan Swift, Mozilla isn't fooling around. And at Mobile World Congress, the non-profit creator of the Firefox browser and its partner, the Spanish telecom ...
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Download: Microsoft Shows Off New OS; How To Try It Now
Huffington Post
Five months after last sharing its progress on Windows 8, Microsoft took the stage at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress to reveal what had changed, what had been added, and what had been taken away in its radical new operating system for desktops and ...
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