Tag Archives: “Consumer
Enter your app in the “Re-imagining Consumer Health with Windows 8 and HealthVault Challenge”
Healthcare is rapidly evolving, and the opportunity for developers to create apps that can help improve the lives of people around the world is bigger than ever. On May 13-14, 2013, Microsoft sponsored Health: Refactored, a 2-day conference in Silicon Valley for app builders, designers and tech experts interested in ...
What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview
It’s that time again: With the new Release Preview and the new developer tools, Windows 8 is one step closer to final release. And just like in the Consumer Preview, our engineering team has been hard at work polishing the development platform to provide you with the best possible development ...
Web browsing in Windows 8 Consumer Preview with IE10
In this post we want to talk about the new Internet Explorer 10 browsing experience. We have considerably improved the underlying browsing engine with performance, standards, and features as we have previously blogged about. IE10 designed for a Metro style experience is a new and improved way ...
If the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is ‘Feature Complete’ Where are the Missing Features?
When Microsoft released the Windows 8 Consumer preview recently they described it as “feature complete”, which came as no surprise to anyone. The Windows 7 beta was also feature complete and indeed “feature locked”. Between the release of the beta in January 2009 and the final product that October absolutely ...
Welcome to Windows 8 – The Consumer Preview
Today is a big day for the Windows team. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain a few moments ago, we unveiled the Windows 8 Consumer Preview to our partners and press. Based on a broad range of feedback, we have made over 100,000 code changes and the Consumer Preview ...
Running the Consumer Preview: system recommendations
We’re very excited to get to the point in the project where we can provide a pre-release version of Windows 8 that is broadly usable by the tech community on a daily basis. We know folks who are anxious to run the Windows 8 Consumer Preview are ...
Windows 8 Consumer Preview Product Guide for Business
Posted on Windows 8 News, Rumors & TipsMicrosoft has released the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Product Guide for Business in time before the public release of the new preview version of Windows 8 later today. The pdf document highlights some of the new – and some of the old – ...
Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Next week will be a big week for Windows 8. Micosoft will launch the Windows 8 Consumer Preview at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on Feb 29.
So what does that mean? The beta version will be available so here are some tips about what to do with it after you ...
What Do You Expect To See Different In The Windows 8 Consumer Preview?
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m getting pretty excited to finally get my hands on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, hopefully on the 29th of February when Microsoft has promised to unveil it at MWC. However I’m not entirely sure what to expect if I’m perfectly honest. I ...