Windows

  • How to unpartition a hard drive using Windows 7?

    ” You must be logged on as an administrator to perform these steps. When you delete a hard disk partition or volume (the terms partition and volume are often used interchangeably), you create empty space that you can use to create new partitions. If your hard disk is currently set […]

  • 7 things we want to see in the Surface Pro 4

    Perhaps a “Surface Pro 4” will debut at the same time or soon after Windows 10 launches. Here’s what we’d like to see in the Surface Pro 4. Surface Pro 4 Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 has become a surprise hit, bringing in more than $900 million in revenue, according to […]

  • ‘Critical point’ for Windows starts Tuesday

    Whatever Microsoft calls Windows 8’s successor better wow the enterprise. When Microsoft unveils its next edition of Windows Tuesday, it will face its greatest challenge ever in operating systems, an analyst argued today. “There’s never been a more critical point for Microsoft related to operating systems than now,” asserted Patrick […]

  • Microsoft wants you to forget Windows 8

    Look to Vista for how Redmond will treat Windows 8 as it moves on to the next bright, shiny OS As talk of the next Windows begins to build and some details of what most are calling for now either Windows 9 or Threshold come into focus, it’s worthwhile to […]

  • 4 key features coming to Windows 9 (hopefully)

    Best Microsoft MCTS Certification, Microsoft MCITP Training at certkingdom.com Don’t get too comfy with Windows 8.1. Soon after Update 1 was released, announcements and rumors arose about what’s coming in the next version of Windows (“Windows 9” for the lack of an official name.) The earliest we might see a […]

  • Microsoft XP is in the queue of erasing

    Microsoft has ended up encouraging users to stop using windows XP for very long. Microsoft’s choice to remove its support team in the sand has sowed uncertainty and will likely encourage bad manners by several clients, analysts said at present. “If next month someone finds another zero-day like this one, […]

  • Windows 8 cobranding with Android may backfire for Microsoft

    All business in the front and party in the back, this category is the mullet of mobile devices. At CES, dual-boot devices running Windows 8.1 and Android revealed a conflicted situation for Microsoft. In the struggle to make Windows 8 relevant in mobile, the OS has been cobranded with Android […]

  • Windows 8 Update: China prefers to stick with dying Windows XP rather than upgrade

    Also: Next Windows 8 release rumored to be closer to Windows Phone; report says Windows 8.1 uptake slow China says it wants Microsoft to extend support for Windows XP because that will help it in its fight to stop proliferation of pirated Microsoft software. A report from TechWeb written in […]

  • Windows 8 Update: Microsoft Windows 8 is not Ballmer’s biggest regret

    Also: Is Windows 8 TPM security an NSA back door? Even though Windows 8 incited hordes to call for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s ouster, the operating system is not what he regrets most about his 33-year tenure at the company. That distinction falls to one of Microsoft’s other operating systems, […]

  • Windows 8 won’t hit critical mass in enterprises, Forrester says

    Windows 8 won’t hit critical mass in enterprises, Forrester says The new OS isn’t expected to ever reach 50 percent adoption in workplace PCs, according to the IT research firmWindows 8, the most significant upgrade to Microsoft’s operating system since Windows 95 and one of the most important products in […]