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Windows 8 preview–including download links

by Nicolas Blank 15 September 2011 News

The future of Windows was shown this week at the BUILD conference as we spoke about earlier this week. Stepping away from the marketing a bit, I’d like to call out two perspectives Windows 8 presented by Steven Bink, reviews the major new features and platforms Windows 8 will run on. Since we’ve recently reviewed [...]

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The Future of Windows

by Nicolas Blank 13 September 2011 Anouncements

The BUILD conference starts today,13 September 2011 and lasts until the 16’th of September 2011. .If you’re interested to know what’s going to be in the next versions of windows – Desktop, Server, Mobile, Slate, Embedded, Car, etc, then you’ll want to keep your eye’s peeled for announcements. Build traditionally is the place where most [...]

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Windows 8 adds native support for ISO and VHD Files

by Nicolas Blank 31 August 2011 News

The support for features in Windows 8 is becoming richer, adding features natively for which we currently need to bolt software onto Windows 7 in order to achieve the same functionality. Let’s look at an excerpt of the Windows 8 blog: As you see in the figure below, we have three ISO files in a [...]

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Windows 8 File Explorer Adds Office Style Ribbon

by Nicolas Blank 30 August 2011 Commentary

We’ve been following the enhancements made to Windows 8. In a previous post we looked at the various teams writing for Windows 8, and today were going to look at one of the new visual features of Windows 8, the Office Style Ribbon, in the Windows 8 File Explorer. Lets look at some of the [...]

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Windows 8 features

by Nicolas Blank 26 August 2011 Commentary

You may be wondering – “But I’ve just gotten used to Windows 7” and the cycle starts again, for another release of Windows. If you’re wondering what features you can expect, and what makes “8” better than “7”, have a look at the list of the teams busy building Windows 8: App Compatibility and Device [...]

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Disabling Day/time Savings #Microsoft #Windows #Egypt #DST

by Mahmoud Magdy 27 April 2011 Windows

The Egyptian government announced on Wednesday 20 April 2011 that summer daylight saving time (DST) will be canceled in Egypt. By default, all windows platforms configured with Egypt time zone (GMT+02:00) Cairo will start the DST by the last Thursday of April by adding one hour at 28 April 2011 @ 23:59:59. Microsoft will be [...]

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