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Microsoft fixes critical Windows, IE flaws for Patch Tuesday
ZDNet
The most severe Internet Explorer flaw affected all versions of Windows XP (Service Pack 3) and above, including Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 — including tablets running Windows RT — running Internet Explorer 6 and above. The flaw could have ...
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Microsoft releases 22 Kinect for Windows open source samplers
Joystiq
PC developers looking to fiddle around with Microsoft's Kinect peripheral just got a big gimme. Microsoft has released 22 different samples of Kinect for Windows code under an open source licensing agreement, meaning you're free to tinker away to your ...
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Review: RetroUI tries to fix Windows 8's usability woes, but only makes them worse
PCWorld
Windows 8 is doing quite a job of alienating longtime Windows users. No more Start button, but a whole Start screen full of distracting live tiles; a double interface (Desktop and "Modern"); low information density on Modern apps; and the list goes on ...
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Slick trick: $5 tool runs Modern apps on the Windows 8 desktop
Computerworld
Stardock, best known to Windows 8 users for Start8, software that restores the Start button and menu, shipped a beta of ModernMix on March 6. As it did with Start8, Stardock priced the ModernMix beta at $5 and promised buyers the final software when it ...
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Start8 and ModernMix -- Windows 8's last, best hope for normality on the desktop
ZDNet
I was expecting to get quite a lot of flack for my last piece on Windows 8: "Will 90% of people always hate Windows 8." What I actually got was some of the most positive and insightful feedback that I've ever received for one of my articles. Maybe it ...
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Critical Updates for Windows, Adobe Flash, Air
Krebs on Security
Microsoft and Adobe each released patches today to plug critical security holes in their products. Microsoft issued seven update bundles to address at least 19 20 vulnerabilities in Windows and related software. Adobe released the fourth security ...
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Krebs on Security
How the View From Apartment Windows Affects Your Health and Well-being
Huffington Post (blog)
When temperatures keep my young sons and me from heading outside, we get our nature fix by looking through their bedroom window. Outside a scraggly tree-of-heaven, a weed native to Asia and common in vacant lots in New York City, presses up against ...
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PCs learn new tricks, but can tablet/notebook hybrids rescue Windows 8?
ZDNet
That's the environment into which Microsoft released Windows 8 last fall. In a world where mobility is king, the single most important feature is the ability to work well as a tablet, when a touchscreen is the only input device. For this new generation ...
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Windows 8 should never have mashed up desktop and mobile
InfoWorld
Berenson presents several different Windows 8 development scenarios: What if Microsoft had developed separate versions of Windows for the desktop, tablets, and phones? What if Microsoft had grown Windows Phone "up" to tablets, leaving the desktop ...
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Nokia's Next Lumia Windows Phone Will Still Be Really Thick And Heavy (NOK ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Overall, the Nokia Lumia 920 is a great phone, but its size and weight are a major turn off, especially considering HTC's Windows Phone 8x offers nearly identical features in a thinner, lighter, and more attractive package. Please follow Business ...
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Google Now may be coming to Windows and Chrome OS
BGR
Earlier reports indicated that Google (GOOG) was interested in expanding its virtual assistant beyond Android. The feature is listed to support Chrome for Windows and Chrome OS, although it is speculated that a Mac OS X release could also be in the works.
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Boot up: brains v games, Windows 8 v the 90%, shrinking tablets grow, and more
The Guardian (blog)
The 190.9m figure would mean tablets (of all types and sizes, including Windows RT and Windows 8 tablets) outselling notebooks in 2013. The 2017 figure, if correct, would see tablets almost level-pegging with PC shipments - for which forecasts were ...
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Windows 8's Flash whitelist goes black, turns on Flash almost everywhere
Ars Technica
Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 and Windows RT contains an embedded version of Flash, updated through Windows Update. However, not all Flash sites can actually use this embedded Flash. On Windows 8, the Metro version of Internet Explorer can only ...
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Flash coming to Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 and RT tomorrow
Engadget
Heads up, Windows users. Tomorrow, Microsoft will release an update for Internet Explorer 10 that enables Flash content in both Windows 8 and Windows RT. As many of you are likely aware, the "full web" experience has been limited to the desktop browser ...
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Ty the Tasmanian Tiger sequel coming to Windows 8 from Krome and Microsoft
Polygon
Developer Krome Studios says the new Ty the Tasmanian Tiger will come to Xbox Games for Windows 8 PC and tablet, packing in 30 levels of 2D platforming action. A new didgeridoo-filled trailer shows what Ty looks like in high-definition, his first ...
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Google Now Coming To The Desktop, Per Chromium Builds For Windows And ...
TechCrunch
Google Now on Android is one of the more genuinely exciting developments for that mobile OS in recent memory, and new evidence today signals it's on its way to the desktop, too. A new reference to Google Now support for Windows and Chrome OS in the ...
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2 x SSD Raid 0 - significant slowdown (windows 7)
Tom's Hardware Guide
So i decided to reinstall W7 x64 after running it since release. After fresh install when copying files from one raid to another, copy speed starts at about 700-500MB/s and then slowsdown. After few seconds speed reaches about 20MB/s and whole system ...
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Windows Tablet Market Share To Stay in Single Digits Through 2017
Redmond Channel Partner
Despite market share gains throughout the next five years, Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets will remain a distant third behind Android- and iOS-based devices, according to research firm IDC. In its Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker report, announced ...
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The Mailbag: What you said about '90 percent of users hating Windows 8'
ZDNet (blog)
If I install Windows 8, I HAVE to learn to use it before I can get anything done. With Microsoft I always feel I am being forced to bend my needs to their notions of what I need. Of course, Apple does the same. I finally got an iPad last year and I ...
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Windows To the Soul: Warby Parker Founder Snags Muppet Manse
New York Observer
The apartment also has both north- and south-facing windows, a product of its block-through location between 12th and 13th streets. It also comes with dedicated off-street parking—to quote one of Mr. Geiss's very own Muppet creations, the Honkers ...
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New York Observer
Glendale police: Tinted windows lead to drug arrests
Glendale News Press
Officers had stopped Mesrobian at Foothill Boulevard and Lauderdale Avenue because he had tinted driver and front-passenger windows on his car, police said. He reportedly told officers he was a gang member and was on parole for robbery until 2015.
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Galactic Reign hits Windows Phone, PC
VG247
Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City developer Slant Six has released a new game – a science fiction strategy effort called Galactic Reign. The Windows 8, RT and Windows Phone app has players colonising planets, designing ships, building fleets and ...
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Broken vehicle windows reported in Waterloo
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
WATERLOO, Iowa --- Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for information related to broken vehicle windows in Waterloo. Residents discovered the overnight damage on Friday morning, and at least eight vehicles had windows shattered, ...
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IE10 on Windows 8 and RT tile-based interface to run Flash by default
InfoWorld
The company has determined after months of testing that most sites with Flash content are compatible with the new tile-based interface of Windows 8 designed for touchscreens, as well as with the new operating system's performance and battery life features.
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Five ways to save Windows 8
ZDNet
Simply chopping prices drastically for Windows 8 and Office 2013 for mini-tablets isn't going to cut it. Neither Windows 8 nor its close relatives, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8, even appear on NetApplication's mobile and tablet usage reports for ...
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