Gaming Companies : Windows 8 is a Disaster

Gaming Companies : Windows 8 is a Disaster 

For some of the big players in the market of video games, the presence of the latest Microsoft platforms, Windows 8, is a threat to their business.

It is revealed by Gabe Newell, co-founder of the leading game company Valve, creators of the legendary game Half Life and Left 4 Dead.

"In my opinion, Windows 8 is a disaster for all PC users," said Gabe Newell, as quoted from AllThingsD.

Microsoft Surface Tablets Designed to Compete with iPad

Microsoft Surface Tablets Designed to Compete with iPad  

Microsoft has finally announced a tablet device operating system Windows 8, Monday (6/18/2012), the Los Angeles, United States. Tablet Tablet Surface named it is predicted to challenge Apple's iPad.

To counter Apple's success with iPad, Microsoft started as a manufacturer of tablet itself, as well as create a special operating system Windows 8 tablet, which is named Windows 8 RT.

Microsoft Announces Surface Tablet

Microsoft Announces Surface Tablet  

Microsoft finally unveil a tablet device, named Surface Tablet. The device was introduced in an event in Los Angeles.

Comes with 10.6-inch screen sizes, Surface Tablet will have two processor options: Intel Ivy Bridge for Windows 8 and ARM chipsets for Windows RT.

Sharp Ready for Producing Tablet "Dual Boot" Android 4.0 and Windows 8

Sharp Ready for Producing Tablet "Dual Boot" Android 4.0 and Windows 8  

Smart phones based on Intel Atom processors, as K800 Lenovo has begun to emerge, tablets with the same platform was likely to soon follow.  

Sharp, a Japanese electronics manufacturer, already has a prototype tablet homemade reinforced by an Intel Atom Z2460 or "Medfied" is.

Existing Windows 8 Tablets in Acer, Asus, and Toshiba

Existing Windows 8 Tablets in Acer, Asus, and Toshiba

The three vendors of mobile devices, namely Asus, Acer, and Toshiba, is preparing a tablet that works with Windows operating systems 8. These three vendors will showcase their Windows 8 tablets in Computex exhibition in Taiwan.  

SkyDrive Applications "Native" in Windows 8

SkyDrive Applications "Native" in Windows 8

Competition in the cloud data storage business, or we might call a "hard disk online" heats up with the announcement of the availability of SkyDrive natively on Windows 8.

Microsoft officially announced the availability of applications 'Metro-style' SkyDrive on Windows 8 is directly integrated with Windows Explorer. Skydrive is Microsoft's online storage service that provides data storage capacity of 2 GB on the Internet for free.

Windows 8 "Consumer Preview"

Windows 8 "Consumer Preview"

Microsoft has released Windows 8 Beta version of the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, the end of February. Windows 8 Beta version of Windows 8 is also called the Consumer Preview.

There are many changes that occur in Windows 8. No wonder if Microsoft's newest operating system is very ambitious to be a success, not only in the line of desktop computers but also in the line of tablet and smartphone.

There are 9 Variants Available on Windows 8

There are 9 Variants Available on Windows 8

Microsoft has released Windows 8 version of Consumer Preview on 29 February. This is a trial version can be downloaded and tried free of charge by the public.

Although Microsoft did not mention specifically, but Windows 8 will be available in nine editions or versions. It is known from the file in the Windows registry editor 8 Consumer Preview is released.