Microsoft may have overdone making the boot time of the Windows 8 operating system faster as the company apparently has stumbled upon an unconventional problem: the Windows 8 OS boots too fast for users to interrupt it.
Microsoft has demoed since last year the blazing fast boot time of Windows 8.
Why is this phenomenally fast boot time a problem? There may be times when you want to interrupt the boot sequence to go to the advanced boot options menu where you can tell Windows 8 to start in Safe …

Even though Microsoft is expected to release the Windows 8 operating system this coming October, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant is still bullish about its latest OS version, the Windows 7 OS.
According to Steve Ballmer, the CEO of the software giant, Microsoft is expecting 350 million machines installed with Windows 7 to be sold throughout 2012.
T the “It makes Windows the most popular single system,” Ballmer is quoted as saying during a speech at the Seoul Digital Forum in …

We know Windows 8 is important to Microsoft but not in the scale that its chief executive sees it.
According to the Agence France-Presse, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer described the –generation OS as the “rebirth” of the Windows platform.
The comments were made by Ballmer at the Seoul Digital Forum on Tuesday.
The senior Microsoft executive said that Windows 8 is the “deepest, broadest and most impactful” Windows operating system version made by the Redmond, …

Windows 8 – Without Start Menu and Aero Glass / Image via Microsoft

Microsoft continues to amaze through the changes made to the upcoming Windows 8 OS, but not necessarily in a pleasant way.
After we heard that Windows 8 will not have a Start Menu button, now we learn that Microsoft has decided to give up the famous Aero Glass interface too, a UI introduced at the same time with Windows Vista and highly appreciated for its special aesthetic appearance. Without any doubt, the Aero Glass …

Microsoft Windows Live will retire before Windows 8 launch. (Image: CLF, via Flickr / CC)

Microsoft will call it quits with the Windows Live brand name before the company’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system launch before year-end.
In a post on the Redmond-based software giant’s Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) blog, it announced the impending discontinuation of Windows Live in preparation for the release of a more well-connected suite of online consumer services, and simply rename the …

A leak of the purported HP Slate 8 provides a sneak peek into what’s in store for people interested in enterprise-targeted Windows 8 tablets.
The leak comes from an image of a slide which is said to be part of an internal presentation from HP and includes a mockup of the device.
The Windows 8 tablet, officially being referred to on the slide as the HP Slate 8 and described as the HP Win 8 Slate, will come with a 10.1-inch display.
HP also listed some features of the HP Slate 8 on the …

Microsoft Surprises Business Pundits by Posting Strong Q1 Performance

Microsoft defied gloomy business predictions by posting a strong first quarter performance this year, earning $5.1 billion, 4% higher than the $4.6 billion it earned during the same period last year.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company is driving toward exciting new products and developments and at the same time delivering strong financial results.
The software giant’s impressive first quarter showing overturned …

On Monday, Microsoft announced the versions of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system.
The announcement was made by Microsoft via a blog post on the Windows Team Blog.
Essentially, there are just two versions of Windows 8 which will be made available to consumers:
Those would be the plain Windows 8 and the better-equipped Windows 8 Pro.
This is a deviation from the previous practice of Microsoft wherein there were more versions of its operating system.
Take for example Windows 7, which had six …

Huge Battle Shaping Up for Hardware Manufacturers: Who Will Build Windows 8? / image via Google

Lennovo and four other biggies in the computer manufacturing world are girding for battle as to who will first build the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system, the latest version of the popular Windows 7 OS.
CNN reports Monday that Lenovo is planning to be the first to break into the new Windows 8 system with a tablet as early as October this year. While no details of the Lenovo plans are available, …

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. is developing its own Tablet PC, reports MarketWatch citing an interview given by chief designer of the company Marko Ahtisaari to magazine Kauppalehti Optio. “We are working on it,” Ahtisaari has been quoted as saying.
According to Ahtisaari, a third of his working time is devoted to the development of the new tablet. He is said to have confidently talked about Nokia Tablet while adding that their gadget will stand out among all the competitors in the …