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Windows 10 will come with a command line package manager, much to the lament of Linux users
2014-10-27 19:03:20| Extremetech
Sorry, penguin lovers -- if you thought that 2015, in the heinous wake of Windows 8, would finally be the year of desktop Linux, you were sadly mistaken. Windows 10 will actually come with a package manager. Yes, in Windows 10 you can open up a command line shell and install VLC or Firefox or thousands of other packages by typing in a single command.
RIP Nokia: Microsoft Lumia is the new face of Windows Phone
2014-10-24 14:53:21| Extremetech
Microsoft has announced that the Nokia Lumia brand is dead; there will be no more Nokia-branded Windows Phones. Instead, we'll now get Microsoft Lumia devices. It will be interesting to see how the Lumia range does, now that it has been fully excised from Nokia. Microsoft's (MSFT) latest Q1 2015 earnings, released yesterday, highlight that sales of Lumia devices were only slightly up over the last year -- and I doubt that the transition to Microsoft branding will help matters.
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Adapter Lets You Use Xbox One Kinect Sensor With Windows
2014-10-23 02:59:10| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
If you have a Kinect for Xbox One, a $50 adapter will let you connect it to a Windows 8 or 8.1 PC.
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Windows 10 vs. OS X Yosemite: The desktop still matters
2014-10-22 21:01:14| Extremetech
In an effort to right the wrongs of Windows 8 on the desktop, Microsoft has put the Windows 10 Technical Preview out there for anyone to download and use, unusual in that such an early release is typically available only to developers. In a similar vein, this past summer Apple put OS X Yosemite (now shipping) out as a public beta for the first time in years, perhaps with similar goals. In both cases, these operating systems show that the humble PC is still important to both Microsoft and Apple, and by association the entire consumer and enterprise PC industry.
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Windows 10 Tech Preview gets its first big update: One-click upgrade is awesome
2014-10-22 17:34:50| Extremetech
When Microsoft released the Windows 10 Technical Preview at the start of October, it promised that we'd get lots of rapid updates as it fixes bugs and rolls out new features -- and it wasn't lying! Yesterday, just three weeks after the initial Technical Preview release, Microsoft rolled out the first major update. There are three major new features in Windows 10 build 9841 -- a notification tray, Battery Sense, and Data Sense. In my eyes, though, the most important aspect was that it was really easy to install the new build; you just click a button. With Windows 10, has Microsoft finally tackled the abomination that is the Windows upgrade process?
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