10 Windows 8 tips, tricks and hacks

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	10 Windows 8 tips, tricks and hacks Starting to get comfortable with Windows 8? Don't stop now: From invoking 'God Mode' to hacking the lock screen, here are 10 ways to make Windows 8 act the way you want. Read More WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Corporation Smarter Business Requires Intelligent Systems This paper discusses the growing adoption of intelligent systems and the role Microsoft, through its Windows Embedded, Windows Azure, and other technologies, can play in developing these systems. Read Now. In this Issue Image gallery: Windows 8 tips, tricks and hacks Preston Gralla: Microsoft Surface sales: At most 750,000, with "very high" return rates. That's why Windows RT will die. Office 365 Home Premium review: Is Office better by subscription? Preston Gralla: Six reasons to love Office 365 Home Premium Microsoft embraces open-source Git for development tools Set up Windows 8 as a home server Windows 8 'convertibles' help Lenovo break into high-end PC market Microsoft tweaks Mac Office, makes it rental Office 2013 is the best Office yet Microsoft to big data programmers: Try F# Apple, Samsung led tablet market in Q4, Microsoft lags WEBCAST: Cloudera Productionizing Hadoop: New Lessons Learned In this webinar video recording Eric Sammer will present how some of the largest Hadoop clusters in the world were successfully "productionized" and best practices for running Hadoop. View Now! Image gallery: Windows 8 tips, tricks and hacks From invoking 'God Mode' to hacking the lock screen, make Windows 8 act the way you want. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft Surface sales: At most 750,000, with "very high" return rates. That's why Windows RT will die. Microsoft's Windows RT Surface tablet is off to an exceedingly poor start, with sales of at most 750,000, and very high rates of return. So says iSuppli. Worse yet, the reason for the high return rates spell trouble not only for Windows RT, but for Windows 8 itself. Read More Office 365 Home Premium review: Is Office better by subscription? Office 365 Home Premium, Microsoft's new subscription-based version of Office 2013, lets you use your applications anywhere. But does it really cost less than the client version? Read More Preston Gralla: Six reasons to love Office 365 Home Premium I've put the just-released Office 365 Home Premium through its paces, and it's very clearly a winner. Here are six reasons to love it. Read More Microsoft embraces open-source Git for development tools Once vehemently opposed to open-source software, Microsoft has warmed to the development model over the years and will now take the unusual step of incorporating an open-source program developed by Linus Torvalds into its own development tools. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mimecast North America Inc. Hospital Turns to Email Archiving Solution Read this case study to learn how a cloud-based email archiving solution enabled the hospital to meet government mandates and helps avoid thousands of dollars in projected storage costs. Learn More. Set up Windows 8 as a home server If you have multiple PCs in your home or small office, you can save time and look professional by storing your documents and media on one PC and using network sharing to access them across all your computers and devices. This prevents you from having to store duplicate copies of files and reduces confusion when trying to find which PC a file is stored on. Additionally, you only reallyA need to worry about backing up one PC (though for safety's sake you shouldA alwaysA back up everything on a regular basis.) Read More Windows 8 'convertibles' help Lenovo break into high-end PC market Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said sales of its Windows 8 PCs have been 'normal' to date;, neither surpassing nor falling behind expectations, but added that convertible devices using the OS are helping the company break into the high-end segment for the North American market. Read More Microsoft tweaks Mac Office, makes it rental As expected, Microsoft today updated Office for Mac 2011 to work with the new Office 365 Home Premium software-by-subscription plan the company debuted Tuesday. Read More Office 2013 is the best Office yet With Office 365 Home Premium, Microsoft brings excellent cloud features and pay-as-you-go pricing to the world's best office suite Read More Microsoft to big data programmers: Try F# Microsoft's F# language geared to parallel programming, data-oriented problem-solving Read More Apple, Samsung led tablet market in Q4, Microsoft lags Apple and Samsung Electronics led the tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2012, but new entrant Microsoft did not make it to the top five with its Surface tablet. Read More
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