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Joining its previous spy-themed promo videos is a new Lenovo video featuring the upcoming IdeaPad Lynx. If you’re a fan of the other ones, you’ll love this one too....More

Lenovo has published some awesome new promo videos—essentially very long commercials for their new Windows 8 devices, the IdeaPad Yoga and the ThinkPad Twist. But these aren’t ads, like mini-movies, and were directed by James Bond’s Martin Campbell with music by Aeph....More

When you connect a PC to Windows Server 2012 by installing the Connector software, a few different things happen behind the scenes. Key among these is configuring centralized backup for the PC, and while you can’t change how this works during the connection, you can and should do so after the fact through Dashboard....More

While readers of this site know that Windows 8 is the most dramatic upgrade to Windows that Microsoft has ever fashioned, much of the wider world has no idea what to expect. So I’ve been curious to see how Microsoft would communicate these changes. Today, we see our first hint of that, via the first Windows 8 advertisement. And sure enough, it trumpets the theme of change....More

Geekwire’s Todd Bishop has published a hilarious chart showing how tablets are really doing in the so-called “post-PC” world: They’re getting killed by PC sales. But I think Todd’s chart points to a Terminator-like Judgment Day for the PC, too. And if current trends remain unchanged, the PC gets killed off by the tablet in Q4 2014....More

All year long, Microsoft has slowly leaked Windows 8 information out to eager tech enthusiasts. But as we head into the final two week stretch before the product’s launch, there are still many questions. Chief among them is pricing. And while Microsoft still hasn’t released any official pricing information, now they don’t need to: Retailers started taking Windows 8 pre-orders today, and they are of course detailing the true cost of Windows 8....More

Microsoft recently confirmed that it would be updating many of the built-in apps in Windows 8 between the release to manufacturing (RTM) of the OS and its general availability on October 26. Here’s a peek at the changes the firm just made to its Maps app....More

Microsoft recently confirmed that it would be updating many of the built-in apps in Windows 8 between the release to manufacturing (RTM) of the OS and its general availability on October 26. Here’s a peek at the changes the firm just made to its Metro-style Mail, Calendar, People, and Messaging apps....More

Microsoft recently confirmed that it would be updating many of the built-in apps in Windows 8 between the release to manufacturing (RTM) of the OS and its general availability on October 26. Here’s a peek at the changes the firm just made to its Metro-style Bing app....More

Well, it looks like all those Metro app updates aren’t the only way in which Microsoft will improve Windows 8 between RTM (release to manufacturing) and GA (general availability): The firm revealed today that it will deliver a cumulative update for Windows 8 that amounts to a post-RTM service pack....More

A few weeks back, I wrote about how you can connect any PCs running any version of Windows 7 or 8 to Windows Server 2012 Essentials without joining the domain. But if you’re running a home version of either client, there’s an even easier way....More

In my recent writings about Windows 8, I’ve tried to stress that this new system is a mobile OS and not an evolution of Windows 7. That’s because the new Metro-style apps in Windows 8 are mobile apps, not traditional desktop applications. The difference may seem subtle, but it isn’t. And bridging this conceptual divide is key to your understanding and using Windows 8 effectively....More