How Can It Be Telemetry If Microsoft Says It Isn’t?
It seems Microsoft just can't help themselves, as they have pushed out a new update to Windows 7 and 8.1 which claims to be a security only patch, of the type of…
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Tag: Windows 8.1
Microsoft Releases Windows 7 “Convenience” Roll-Up
I know this sounds like yet another story where Microsoft attempts to ram Windows 10 down your throat, but it's not (apart from a potential interpretation of the last paragraph). It's been…
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Khronos Group Releases Vulkan… with a Hard Launch
The wait for Vulkan is over. I'm not just talking about the specification. Members of the Khronos Group have also released compatible drivers,...
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Skylake and Later Will Be Withheld Windows 7 / 8.x Support
Microsoft has not been doing much to put out the fires in comment threads all over the internet. The latest flare-up involves hardware support with Windows 7 and 8.x. Currently unreleased architectures,…
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Windows 8 Also Deprecated on January 12th
So I was just browsing ZDNet when I came across a post by Ed Bott. Turns out that Microsoft, on top of deprecating Internet Explorer 8, 9,...
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Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows Now Supports 7, 8.x
Last week, Microsoft announced that the Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows now supports Windows 7 and 8.x. Previously, the dongle would only work on Windows 10, which meant that other...
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Microsoft Updated Windows End of Sales Dates
Officially, the only version of Windows that you can purchase standalone is Windows 10. Sales of Windows 7 ended on October 31st, 2013, and retail availability Windows 8.x...
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The Core M powered Dell Venue 11 Pro 7140 Convertible
The new Dell Venue 11 Pro is a tablet with a 10.8" touchscreen with 10 point capacitive touch displaying at a 1080p resolution powered by the Intel HD5300 present on the CoreM…
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Rumor: Intel Is Now Powering Both Surface and Surface Pro
The stack of Microsoft tablet devices had high-end Intel Core processors hovering over ARM SoCs, the two separated by a simple “Pro” label (and Windows 8.x versus Windows RT). While the Pro…
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CES 2015: Lenovo Launches Broadwell-Powered 11″ and 14″ Yoga 3 Tablets Running Windows 8.1
Last year, Lenovo showed off the flagship Yoga 3 Pro with a watchband hinge. Now, Lenovo is using CES to officially launch the non pro Yoga 3. The Yoga 3...
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Video Perspective: Building a High Powered MicroATX Gaming PC
Though the mindset that a small PC is a slow PC is fading, there are still quite a few readers out there that believe the size of your components…
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Hitting the big time; Win 8.1 now more popular than it’s teenage sibling
Now that the average consumer has no choice but to buy a machine with Windows 8 or 8.1, the number of PCs running Win 8.1 has hit 10%. The increase beginning in…
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New 13-Inch Windows 8.1 Tablet Rounds Out Lenovo’s Yoga Tablet 2 Lineup
Lenovo made a new 13-inch Windows 8.1 tablet official today rounding out the company's Yoga Tablet 2 family. The aptly named Yoga Tablet 2 With Windows (13") combines the design and…
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ECS LIVA Windows Based Mini PC Review: A Palm-Sized Desktop Computer
When Intel revealed their miniature PC platform in 2012, the new “Next Unit of Computing” (NUC) was a tiny motherboard with a custom case, and admittedly very little compute power....
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Lenovo Launches Atom-Powered Yoga Tablet 2 Tablets Running Android or Windows
Back in January, Ryan got his hands on Lenovo's 8-inch and 10-inch Yoga tablets. The tablets ran Android OS, had good battery life, and featured a unique design that included a tube…
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Lenovo Introduces New Yoga 3 Pro and ThinkPad Yoga 14 Tablet PCs
At a press event in London (watch the livestream), Lenovo showed off two new convertible PCs – the Yoga 3 Pro and ThinkPad Yoga 14 – aimed at the consumer and business...
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Lenovo Y50 Touch Gaming Notebook Review: In Touch With Your Budget
A little over a year ago, we posted our review of the Lenovo Y500, which was a gaming notebook that leveraged not one, but two discrete video adapters (2…
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Microsoft Introduces Windows 10 to the Enterprise
The Windows event for the enterprise, which took place today in San Francisco, revealed the name of the upcoming OS. It is not Windows 9, or One Windows,...
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