Microsoft Office for iPad review

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCmNpXQvRK5NM32Q4OQVgOhw0U61OG-2lJ9CkXKoRiRCK3o83P2DmCwNAPO0KxEWTFzmVGh4yMfrGsPoi7tb5biiR0U46QhyOBOFBRNIavXCBchwVL3GMdRZZZR1O4VH9jMlqkpOxCyh0/s1600/office-for-ipad-powerpoint-edit-100252400-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCmNpXQvRK5NM32Q4OQVgOhw0U61OG-2lJ9CkXKoRiRCK3o83P2DmCwNAPO0KxEWTFzmVGh4yMfrGsPoi7tb5biiR0U46QhyOBOFBRNIavXCBchwVL3GMdRZZZR1O4VH9jMlqkpOxCyh0/s1600/office-for-ipad-powerpoint-edit-100252400-large.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Microsoft Office for iPad</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Apple announced that its iWork suite would be bundled, free of charge, with new iOS and Mac devices, it seemingly slammed the door on Microsoft’s Office ambitions for the iPad. How could Microsoft bring its pricey Office suite into a world of free (and almost free) apps?</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The answer: Outdo iWork in both form and function. Apple claims that products like its Pages are the most beautiful office software for iPad and other Apple devices. With Office for iPad, Microsoft has stolen that crown.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Microsoft’s Office for iPad is a collection of three apps: Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. (OneNote for the iPad has been available since 2011, and Microsoft's Lync, Skype, and Yammer are also available.) Users can download each, free of charge, from Apple’s iTunes on an iPad running iOS 7.0 or above. And each is free to use to view documents that have been created elsewhere.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75em;">But Office 365 also includes a subscription to OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage solution, a central repository from which one can withdraw and store documents. In a nice twist, you can connect both your personal OneDrive and OneDrive for Business accounts and connect to SharePoint as well. </span>However, to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">create</em> or <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">edit </em>documents, you must subscribe to Office 365: either Office 365 Home Premium ($9.99 per month), the upcoming Office 365 Personal ($6.99 per month), or one of several business options. Each Office 365 subscription includes at least one tablet subscription, which covers Office for iPad. // <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2111900/microsoft-office-for-ipad-review-finally-true-productivity-on-your-tablet.html" target="_blank">PCWorld</a></span></div>

Microsoft Office for iPad review

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Xbox One's first major update split in two, launching in February and March

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBPFnFW_EWiGFUJuCxdEpenlomzhpp_t7y7nufRKgrS0zMGyrBwoy7ti_i6CXyPD0ANNrWNl-zGtuWrEOtmI2Du80G8_3nkXDk0SnwMoN0g1_UF9xXJ9WQ2r_C8pwwULMEwFmsAuve6uY/s1600/home_2_4_2014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBPFnFW_EWiGFUJuCxdEpenlomzhpp_t7y7nufRKgrS0zMGyrBwoy7ti_i6CXyPD0ANNrWNl-zGtuWrEOtmI2Du80G8_3nkXDk0SnwMoN0g1_UF9xXJ9WQ2r_C8pwwULMEwFmsAuve6uY/s1600/home_2_4_2014.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Xbox One's</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">When the first component of </span><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/08/xbox-one-updates/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">Xbox One's spring update</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> arrives on February 11th, it'll be a few weeks ahead of the first spring flowers sprouting. Like those flowers, much of what's contained in the February update is under the surface: Kinect voice recognition improvement, tools for developers and "stability and product updates to improve the customer experience" to name a few non-specific bulletpoints. What you'll actually care about is the stuff you'll see, which in this case is a battery meter for gamepads (visible on the dashboard) and a reorganized My Games & Apps section.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">That first component is self-explanatory, but the latter piece requires some detail. First, you can actually see how much space you've got left on that 500GB HDD -- helpful! Second, the applications are being broken out from games, and can be more incrementally managed. "Now you can pick the order in which you want your content to load and we've added a boot progress indicator so you can better track updates while they load," Xbox Chief Product Officer Marc Whitten says in a blog post detailing the update. Additionally, February's update adds USB keyboard support. Sure, why not? There should also be some other bells and whistles in there, which Microsoft says we'll find out more about soon (er, uh, </span><em style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">before next Tuesday</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">).</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Head below for more on the second half of the update, due in March.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The second piece of seasonal update arrives on March 4th, and it's got a fully revamped party system just in time for the launch of blockbuster game </span><em style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Titanfall</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> (a multiplayer-focused experience). What exactly does that mean? We'll have to wait to find out, as Whitten's only offering "a new party and multiplayer system" as detail. And what of promised Twitch.tv streaming ahead of E3 this year? Microsoft's staying mum for now, but we'd be shocked if it didn't show up in the first major system update to Xbox One.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Regardless of the spring update, small and continuous updates to the Xbox One will still occur as time goes on. Whitten also says we'll hear "many" more announcements regarding the upcoming update -- here's hoping next time we find out HBO Go and Spotify are part of the big spring refresh.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span class="via" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"></span><span class="source" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Source:</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><a href="http://news.xbox.com/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Xbox</a> Via :<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/05/xbox-one-spring-update-2014/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Engadget</a></span>

Xbox One's first major update split in two, launching in February and March

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Microsoft buys $16.7m stake in ..

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYlyK2wNb1w5l0Wkzg-MdWlv-OLYf5B5UC5EcsL9YLOB1hhO-iEprwkNhGbz7vk3f0FXzddxPDrlAy0w_-qZRNHcmSgfisCiZ-pChob-YAs5uTMvd6dIWBrCpq2R_8KufY83Ke_Gnl7_Q/s1600/Microsoft.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYlyK2wNb1w5l0Wkzg-MdWlv-OLYf5B5UC5EcsL9YLOB1hhO-iEprwkNhGbz7vk3f0FXzddxPDrlAy0w_-qZRNHcmSgfisCiZ-pChob-YAs5uTMvd6dIWBrCpq2R_8KufY83Ke_Gnl7_Q/s1600/Microsoft.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Microsoft</span></i></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Microsoft has invested $US15 million ($16.7 million) in Foursquare Labs, forging a partnership that will help Windows-powered phones offer location-based restaurant and entertainment suggestions to their owners.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The investment, confirmed in an interview by Foursquare chief executive Dennis Crowley, is part of a funding round from late last year that valued New York-based Foursquare at more than $US600 million, people with knowledge of the terms said in December. It comes as Microsoft announced <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/microsoft-names-satya-nadella-new-ceo-as-bill-gates-steps-down-as-chairman-20140204-hvb6d.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a new CEO and chairman</a> effective immediately.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Microsoft is adding features to its Windows Phone software in an effort to compete with Apple's iPhone and Google's Android software, which together dominate the smartphone market. Location data from Foursquare will appear in a voice-activated assistant, code-named Cortana, that has yet to be released and will go up against Apple's Siri technology, according to a person with knowledge of the plans.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"This is huge validation for the stuff we've been working so hard on," Crowley said. "It's one of the leaders in the space we work in looking at us and saying we can really help power the next generation of devices."</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Foursquare, which has struggled to generate sales in almost five years on the market, will get a new stream of data licensing revenue from the partnership, Crowley said. Foursquare's valuation has been stagnant since 2011.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Microsoft and American Express were both vying for a stake in Foursquare last year. Microsoft has been courting start-ups to add features to its phones and tablets, which lag behind Apple and Android in the number of applications available to users.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cortana, named for the artificially intelligent character in Microsoft's popular Halo video game series, is scheduled to be part of the Windows Phone 8.1 release, to be shown within several months, according to a person familiar with the project and Foursquare agreement, who asked not to be identified because details haven't been made public.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As part of the deal, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft will gain access to more of Foursquare's data than the company makes available publicly and to other partners. That data would allow Microsoft, with a user's permission, to push out tips, suggestions and discounts tied to a person's location, said Zig Serafin, a vice-president in Microsoft's Bing search unit.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"We're building some contextually aware experiences to power some upcoming products in Windows Phone," Serafin said. "This will be for anywhere you get a Bing-powered experience." // <a href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/it-pro/business-it/microsoft-buys-167m-stake-in-foursquare-20140205-hvbaa.html">brisbanetimes</a></span></div>

Microsoft buys $16.7m stake in ..

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Microsoft : Satya Nadella is named chief executive

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAkn7XHKUrIx9PThMZZrkTKRS7K4UlmyBQvwwDA20iHRMUaEs25cTT8chKXq0GYSEprI2RqXwC1AoicTwtmiuNSwOnUIIj6dB_mp303yIL0GEH00hpQ_oc7yo9FiSdJtDwk_VzWIHliGY/s1600/Bill-Gates_2771615b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAkn7XHKUrIx9PThMZZrkTKRS7K4UlmyBQvwwDA20iHRMUaEs25cTT8chKXq0GYSEprI2RqXwC1AoicTwtmiuNSwOnUIIj6dB_mp303yIL0GEH00hpQ_oc7yo9FiSdJtDwk_VzWIHliGY/s1600/Bill-Gates_2771615b.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h1 itemprop="headline name" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: start;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Bill Gates</span></i></h1> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="firstPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"> <div style="line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bill Gates has quit as Microsoft chairman to take up a new role as technology adviser in a management shake-up that will see Satya Nadella become chief executive.</span></div> </div> <div class="secondPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"> <div style="line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The announcement ends a long search for a new chief after Steve Ballmer announced his intention to retire in August.</span></div> </div> <div class="thirdPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"> <div style="line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr Nadella is only the third chief executive in Microsoft's 39-year history, following co-founder Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.</span></div> </div> <div class="fourthPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"> <div style="line-height: 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“During this time of transformation, there is no better person to lead Microsoft than Satya Nadella,” said Bill Gates in a statement. “Satya is a proven leader with hard-core engineering skills, business vision and the ability to bring people together. His vision for how technology will be used and experienced around the world is exactly what Microsoft needs as the company enters its next chapter of expanded product innovation and growth.” // <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/10616998/Bill-Gates-quits-as-Microsoft-chairman-and-Satya-Nadella-is-named-chief-executive.html">Telegraph</a></span></div> </div>

Microsoft : Satya Nadella is named chief executive

Bill Gates Bill Gates has quit as Microsoft chairman to take up a new role as technology adviser in a management shake-up that will ...

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Mozilla show Metro Firefox ship date to mid-March

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnxY-BHPRFyOCho7XG01lZOsVy1lDyGEgcwXHx2LaeO9iPnPUKvq2xaAqQdFFMaYtTCdvI-L-bMC7ze24e5yBXY_Sm-FWHVtTyIBRhvSHJ3zUXbMWymCUl2DsME4fo-gmNQmrJbRyZX5w/s1600/mozilla_firefox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnxY-BHPRFyOCho7XG01lZOsVy1lDyGEgcwXHx2LaeO9iPnPUKvq2xaAqQdFFMaYtTCdvI-L-bMC7ze24e5yBXY_Sm-FWHVtTyIBRhvSHJ3zUXbMWymCUl2DsME4fo-gmNQmrJbRyZX5w/s1600/mozilla_firefox.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Mozilla</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mozilla has again pushed back the release date for a touch-enabled version of Firefox that will run in Windows 8's "Modern" user interface (UI), with the new target in mid-March.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ship estimates for the browser have been fluid, to put it mildly. In August, the open-source developer pegged December 2013 as the target for the "Metro-ized" version of Firefox. In September, Mozilla said it was hoping to bundle Firefox Metro with the Windows edition of Firefox 27, slated for release on Feb. 4.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Metro was the name Microsoft once applied to the radical UI of Windows 8, but the company ditched the moniker in 2012 over a trademark dispute with a German retailer.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The newest information from Mozilla, however, has tapped March 18, when Firefox 28 is to ship, as the projected release of the browser.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although a preview of Firefox Metro was bundled with the Aurora build of Firefox more than three months ago -- and is currently in Aurora for Firefox 28 -- it has not yet been promoted to the next channel, Beta, which is the precursor to Release. Mozilla has set a Jan. 31 deadline for deciding whether the touch browser is ready to add to Firefox 28 Beta.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mozilla started work on a Metro edition of Firefox in March 2012. It shipped a rough preview in October 2012, several weeks before Microsoft launched Windows 8. At that time, Mozilla's schedule said the Firefox app might appear as early as January 2013. In May 2013, however, the company said its developers would complete Firefox for Modern between Oct. 2, 2013, and March 20, 2014, with mid-November the likeliest date.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If Mozilla makes the targeted March 18 release, it will have spent two years crafting the browser, which will have shipped 17 months after the retail debut of Windows 8. // <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245143/Mozilla_resets_Metro_Firefox_ship_date_to_mid_March?source=rss_keyword_edpicks&google_editors_picks=true">Computerworld</a></span>

Mozilla show Metro Firefox ship date to mid-March

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Gates will surrender Microsoft shareholder in 2014

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX-SqjqNYMks6-qnL0FZDf7M4pCBWK7IXcaC_V4tbh4ltF7fSvwTzPYLDSzkv6Wr8_SXgTj8khVGVJYyEDE8kC8x8AXBmtFzO8YQUgKzo-u5gGuNJaaYQwmyvNCrFI6u0iqDYBzAA5JTU/s1600/Bill-Gates.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX-SqjqNYMks6-qnL0FZDf7M4pCBWK7IXcaC_V4tbh4ltF7fSvwTzPYLDSzkv6Wr8_SXgTj8khVGVJYyEDE8kC8x8AXBmtFzO8YQUgKzo-u5gGuNJaaYQwmyvNCrFI6u0iqDYBzAA5JTU/s1600/Bill-Gates.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Bill Gates</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' once-invulnerable position as the company's biggest stockholder continued to erode in the fourth quarter of 2013 as he sold another 20 million shares.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As of Friday, Gates remained Microsoft's single-largest shareholder, but his lead over friend and current CEO Steve Ballmer was less than 25 million shares, giving the latter the chance to become the prime stockholder within months.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the last decade, Gates has sold an average of 80 million shares annually, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), part of a plan to divest holdings in the company he and Paul Allen founded in 1975. Gates has pledged to give away the bulk of his wealth, with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a tool for that task.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Between Oct. 28 and Nov. 1, Gates sold 20 million shares worth $711 million, leaving him with 357,990,173 shares at the end of 2013, down from 1.1 billion shares in September 2004. Meanwhile, Ballmer's holdings remained at 333,252,990 shares.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gates' shares were worth approximately $13.2 billion as of Friday, or 17% of his estimated $78.1 billion net worth, as calculated by Bloomberg. That amount made Gates the world's richest individual.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At his 10-year pace of selling stock, Gates will hand over the shareholding crown to Ballmer before mid-2014. Gates will have exhausted his holdings by September 2018 unless he stops or slows his selling.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While Gates' position as chairman and his influence on the company are not solely based on his stock holdings -- he is an iconic technologist, credited with building Microsoft into the world's leading software maker, its wares on more than 90% of the globe's personal computers -- those millions of shares carry enormous weight.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gates has always been Microsoft's largest stockholder, according to proxy filings with the SEC, which are available as far back as 1994, eight years after the company went public. For him to cede that position will be historic.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even though his stock holdings are shrinking, Gates may not be stepping down from the head of Microsoft's board any time soon, as some have urged him to do. // <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245168/Gates_will_surrender_Microsoft_shareholder_crown_to_Ballmer_in_2014?source=rss_keyword_edpicks&google_editors_picks=true">Computerworld</a></span>

Gates will surrender Microsoft shareholder in 2014

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CES 2014 : Lenovo announces new Windows devices

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPO0ApVXpQ6HYpBoxnLtbXdCk0stQa9Vd70HNVVSs4etxZccwAXZsUFO_jmKeSEN6236q5Pgl8EVZJxtccVD7s69AoYsCbcxSGpGujduXH_YL7T8rrJJHEgNir0LvNLhF_zvoEpzRcTiY/s1600/Lenovo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPO0ApVXpQ6HYpBoxnLtbXdCk0stQa9Vd70HNVVSs4etxZccwAXZsUFO_jmKeSEN6236q5Pgl8EVZJxtccVD7s69AoYsCbcxSGpGujduXH_YL7T8rrJJHEgNir0LvNLhF_zvoEpzRcTiY/s1600/Lenovo.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Windows devices</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">New Lenovo MIIX 2 models:</span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lenovo <a href="http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive/2013/10/16/lenovo-announces-the-miix2-8-inch-tablet.aspx" style="font-weight: 600; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">has an 8-inch MIIX 2 model</a> available today but in recognizing that one design doesn’t fit all, they are announcing 10-inch and 11-inch MIIX 2 models today. The MIIX 2 has the ability to connect to a unique detachable keyboard from Lenovo to be used in “Laptop Mode”. However, you can use it only as a tablet whenever you need to or use it in “Stand Mode” to watch movies or view photos.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 10-inch MIIX 2 focuses on mobility: it weighs only 1.3 lbs. and is only 0.36-inches thick. It comes with a new 64-bit enabled quad-core Intel Atom processor 1, a full HD 1920x1200 10-point touchscreen display, Wi-Fi (and optional 3G), JBL surround speakers for great sounding audio, up to 128GB of eMMC storage and a microSD slot for adding up to 32GB of storage . The 10-inch MIIX 2 also comes with a 720p high resolution 2 megapixel front and 5 megapixel rear cameras. And it has all day battery life.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="WW_Images_-_Product_Photography_Lenovo_Miix_2_10''_02" border="0" height="442" src="http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-53-48-metablogapi/WW_5F00_Images_5F002D005F00_Product_5F00_Photography_5F00_Lenovo_5F00_Miix_5F00_2_5F00_10_5F00_02_5F00_thumb_5F00_47651719.jpg" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: inline; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;" title="WW_Images_-_Product_Photography_Lenovo_Miix_2_10''_02" width="500" /></span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 11-inch MIIX 2 focuses on performance offer up to a 4th generation Intel Core i5 processor, greater storage with up to 256GB of fast SSD storage and a full HD 1920x1200 IPS wide-view display. The 11-inch MIIX 2 comes with many of the same leading features of 10-inch model and Windows 8.1.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Both models come in the Silver Grey color and have a mini HDMI port to display content on larger screens, an SD card reader, micro USB port and microSD cards along with USB 2.0 support on the keyboard. The 10-inch MIIX 2 will start at $499 (U.S.) and the 11-inch MIIX 2 will start at $699 (U.S.). The 10-in model will be available beginning in March. The 11-in model will be available starting in April. They will be sold via major retailers and <a href="http://www.lenovo.com/" style="font-weight: 600; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">www.lenovo.com</a>.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">New Lenovo X1 Carbon:</span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="New X1 Carbon Touch_Hero_02" border="0" height="283" src="http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-53-48-metablogapi/New_2D00_X1_2D00_Carbon_2D00_Touch_5F00_Hero_5F00_02_5F00_thumb_5F00_569B7FE6.jpg" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: inline; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;" title="New X1 Carbon Touch_Hero_02" width="500" /></span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lenovo is announcing the new X1 Carbon 14-inch Ultrabook today. The X1 Carbon is designed with Carbon Fiber – the same material used on aircraft and cars. It weighs less than magnesium and aluminum but is stronger than both. The X1 Carbon only weighs 2.8 lbs. – its super strong AND super light. The new X1 Carbon comes with an improved display (with touch) giving customers brighter and crisper images at higher resolutions and better viewing angles. It also comes with Lenovo’s Rapid Charge technology that allows you to get an 80% charge of the battery in under an hour. And the new X1 Carbon has an over 70% improvement on battery life over the previous model with up to 9 hours. Finally, the new X1 Carbon also introduces an improved docking experience with Lenovo’s OneLink connector that brings power, gigabit Ethernet, and dual display support all through a single cable. Models of the new ThinkPad X1 Carbon will start at $1,299 (U.S.) and availability will begin late January.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lenovo ThinkPad 8:</span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The ThinkPad 8 is a new 8-inch business tablet constructed of machine-cut aluminum. The ThinkPad 8 has 3 modes: “Tablet Mode” for on the go, “Desktop Mode” while connected to an optional keyboard base, dock or monitor, or in “Tent Mode” with its optional Quickshot Cover over the tablet. The ThinkPad 8 has an 8.3-inch 1920x1200 display and comes with the latest Intel Atom quad core processor, up to 128GB of storage, a microUSB 3.0 port, LTE connectivity, and Windows 8.1 Pro. The ThinkPad 8 convertible tablet will be available as configure-to-order models starting at $399 (U.S.) and at retailers starting at $429 (U.S.) in late January.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lenovo Y and Z Series laptops:</span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The new 14-inch Y40 and 15.6-inch Y50 laptops come encased in a black shell and offer several options. The Y50 has an optional backlit keyboard for example and offers up to an Ultra HD 3840x2160 display or full HD 1920x1080 display with optional touch. The Y40 features a full HD display. The Y Series laptops come powered by up to a 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor, an HDD or SSD, optional AMD Radeon on the Y40 and NVIDIA GeForce on the Y50, and Windows 8.1. The Y40 and Y50 both come with JBL speakers and Dolby Home Theater v4. Models of the Lenovo Y40 and Y50 laptops will start at $999 (U.S.) beginning in May at major retailers and <a href="http://www.lenovo.com/" style="font-weight: 600; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">www.lenovo.com</a>.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The new 14-inch Z40 and 15.6-inch Z50 laptops offer a lightweight design for mobile productivity and come in black, silver or white. These laptops come with an optional full HD 1920x1080 display and powered with up to a 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor. They also have optional NVIDIA GeForce graphics, Windows 8.1 and Dolby Home Theatre v4. And you can get up to 1TB of storage for both in either as an HDD or hybrid SSD. Models of the Lenovo Z40 and Z50 laptops will start at $599 (U.S.) beginning in March at major retailers and <a href="http://www.lenovo.com/" style="font-weight: 600; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">www.lenovo.com</a>.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lenovo Horizon 2:</span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At last year’s CES, Lenovo unveiled the 27-inch Horizon Table PC designed for full-on multitouch family entertainment in a form factor easy to transport around the home. The Horizon table PC could be used as an All-in-One sitting a desk (“Stand Mode”) or in the living room surrounded by friends and family playing games (“Table Mode”). Today, Lenovo is announcing the Horizon 2 Table PC. The Horizon 2 is dramatically thinner and lighter – measuring as thin as a deck of playing cards at just 19.5mm. It also comes with improved performance with up to a 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor, Dolby Home Theater for amazing audio, and large traditional or hybrid storage. And it comes with NFC (Near Field Communications) – making is real easy to share content from your phone to the Horizon 2. The Horizon 2 comes with Windows 8.1 and a 10-point touchscreen. The Horizon 2 be available beginning in June starting at $1,499 (U.S.) via major retailers and <a href="http://www.lenovo.com/" style="font-weight: 600; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">www.lenovo.com</a>.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lenovo A740:</span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <a href="http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-53-48-metablogapi/a740_5F00_5E7045FD.png" style="font-weight: 600; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="a740" border="0" height="375" src="http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-53-48-metablogapi/a740_5F00_thumb_5F00_4434FE3B.png" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: inline; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;" title="a740" width="500" /></span></a></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The A740 is a new All-in-One from Lenovo that has only a 4mm thin display – making it one of the thinnest 27-inch All-in-Ones around. I am a huge fan of All-in-Ones and the A740 has really caught my attention. The A740 comes packed with the latest technology you would expect for a high-performance AIO: a (optional) WQHD 2560X1440 display with a wide 178-degree viewing angle, NVIDIA GeForce graphics, JBL speakers and Dolby Home Theater, up to 1TB of hard drive storage, NFC, 802.11 AC Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI-in support, an optional TV tuner and comes with Windows 8.1. The A740’s stand and display back is cut from a single piece of aluminum looking real sleek and modern. And it can fold down 90-degrees flat. The Lenovo A740 be available beginning in June starting at $1,499 (U.S.) via major retailers and <a href="http://www.lenovo.com/" style="font-weight: 600; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">www.lenovo.com</a>.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lenovo C560:</span></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <b><a href="http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-53-48-metablogapi/c560_5F00_0877F639.png" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="c560" border="0" height="258" src="http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-53-48-metablogapi/c560_5F00_thumb_5F00_74ED2748.png" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; display: inline; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;" title="c560" width="500" /></span></a></b></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Lenovo C560 is a new 23-inch All-in-One perfect for the entire family available in white or jet black. It has a full HD 1920x1080 optional multitouch display and comes powered with up to a 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce graphics. You get Dolby Advanced Audio for amazing sounding audio. And it also comes with up to 2TB of storage. If you want to use the C560 as a TV, it also has the option for a built-in TV tuner and also comes with HDMI out to connect to a bigger screen such as a TV. And no tools are required to update the memory or hard drive in the C560. The touchscreen Lenovo C560 All-in-One will start at $659 (U.S.) and available beginning in February at major retailers and <a href="http://www.lenovo.com/" style="font-weight: 600; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">www.lenovo.com</a>.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Souce : <a href="http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive/2014/01/05/lenovo-announces-new-windows-devices-at-ces-2014.aspx">Windows</a></span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Image Credit : Windows</span></div>

CES 2014 : Lenovo announces new Windows devices

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Analysts say: PC makers plan rebellion against Windows at 2014 CES

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnJabv08Ijrizb-HGuytr7-Ynj0hsU_boP-tTVl42V99XUV8QNXYsZ3XEizlNFk1Rn-0KsRYSmNDcEbKpsQq88uzkxWRWaOb6SAC58il_9nDLIlhQpRq3k2fG0_01AGnZp0cGi3mKMJug/s400/LG+Chromebase.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>LG Chromebase</i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnJabv08Ijrizb-HGuytr7-Ynj0hsU_boP-tTVl42V99XUV8QNXYsZ3XEizlNFk1Rn-0KsRYSmNDcEbKpsQq88uzkxWRWaOb6SAC58il_9nDLIlhQpRq3k2fG0_01AGnZp0cGi3mKMJug/s1600/LG+Chromebase.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fearing rapidly plummeting sales of traditional laptops and desktop computers -- <a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24466513" style="color: #183a52; cursor: pointer; outline: none 0px;" target="_blank">which collapsed</a> by as much as 10 percent in 2013 -- manufacturers are planning a revolution against Microsoft and the standard Windows operating system, analysts say.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the mammoth Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in early January, multiple computer makers will unveil systems that simultaneously run two different operating systems, both Windows and the Android OS that powers many of the world’s tablets and smartphones, two different analysts said recently. The new devices will be called “PC Plus” machines, explained Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"A PC Plus machine will run Windows 8.1 but will also run Android apps as well," Bajarin wrote recently for Time. "They are doing this through software emulation. I'm not sure what kind of performance you can expect, but this is their way to try and bring more touch-based apps to the Windows ecosystem."</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"This is going to make buzz at CES," <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244953/Microsoft_to_face_computer_makers_rebellion_at_CES" style="color: #183a52; cursor: pointer; outline: none 0px;" target="_blank">Moorhead told Computerworld</a>. "OEMs will be trumpeting this ... it's going to be a very hot topic [at the trade show]."</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The move is the latest push back against Microsoft and its Windows 8 operating system, an attempt at dramatic transformation of the traditional Windows desktop to incorporate touch screens and portable tablet shapes.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Consumers responded poorly, with widespread complaints about an interface that, while wonderful on tablets, essentially ignored the hundreds of millions of computer users worldwide that rely on mice and keyboards to interact with their systems. Desktop and laptop PC sales fell dramatically in 2013, according to data from research firm IDC. And sales of tablets running Windows 8, while growing, have in no way replaced them.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The Windows-based tablet market … is expected to grow to 39.3 million units in 2017 from less than 7.5 million in 2013 and less than 1 million in 2011. However, relative to a PC market size of roughly 300 million units, these Windows tablets would add just a couple percent a year relative to PC growth," said Loren Loverde, <a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24466513" style="color: #183a52; cursor: pointer; outline: none 0px;" target="_blank">a vice president with IDC</a>.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/12/27/pc-makers-plan-rebellion-against-windows-at-ces-analysts-say/">Fox News</a></span></i></div>

Analysts say: PC makers plan rebellion against Windows at 2014 CES

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Best 25 apps to install on your Windows tablet

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcqFIr7DznNMX7iQ2JtoS2CfTHiWmIGHqTqDdpcwfxLfwpSc7ausf3HK_0shBVo0RQOpSQj5z-TczIA1L7EFGmPJoO6fg2IBr01oCb6dUFUSL0GMcXyciKCagwX-TRoeLA-Dp_QNqWEVk/s1600/tablet_app.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: start;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i style="font-weight: normal;">Embracing touch</i></span></h2> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcqFIr7DznNMX7iQ2JtoS2CfTHiWmIGHqTqDdpcwfxLfwpSc7ausf3HK_0shBVo0RQOpSQj5z-TczIA1L7EFGmPJoO6fg2IBr01oCb6dUFUSL0GMcXyciKCagwX-TRoeLA-Dp_QNqWEVk/s1600/tablet_app.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></a></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Embracing touch</span></h2> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let’s start with apps that highlight the strengths of Windows 8 and Microsoft’s quest to deliver a singular, unified experience across a multitude of devices. Surprise! They all come straight from Microsoft.</span></div> <figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="fresh paint" height="326" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/fresh-paint-100160791-large.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Microsoft’s Fresh Paint app offers a rich selection of artistic tools. </span></div> </figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/fresh-paint/1926e0a0-5e41-48e1-ba68-be35f2266a03" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Fresh Paint</a></strong> was a star at Windows 8’s 2012 launch, and it still shines brightly a year later. The free app comes chock-full of watercolors, oils, and pencil tools that will keep you doodling for hours in full multitouch glory. If that gets boring, try something else: Fresh Paint also allows you to paint over pictures stored on your PC, or to pull in “inspiration” from photos on Bing. You can purchase optional “packs” (read: coloring books) for your kids, including some starring Disney characters such as Mickey and Nemo. As simple as it sounds, Fresh Paint is a blast.</span></div> <figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="xbox one smartglass" height="362" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/xbox-one-smartglass-100160799-large.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Xbox One Smartglass in action. </i></span></div> </figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Don’t feel like finger painting? <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.xbox.com/en-US/smartglass" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Xbox Smartglass</a></strong> lets you navigate and control your Xbox 360 or Xbox One console with your slate, and much more. Games with Smartglass support (such as <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Halo 4, Ryse: Son of Rome,</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dead Rising 3</em>) offer unique gameplay capabilities in-app, and a number of movies provide supplemental content through Smartglass. You can also use Xbox Smartglass to buy videos from Xbox Video and shift them from your tablet to your TV and back again.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you’d rather game on your tablet, check out <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/skulls-of-the-shogun/c919c1a7-ad5d-4423-9a30-32cf731c04d7" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Skulls of the Shogun</a></strong></em> or <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/halo-spartan-assault/8fe2d694-baa2-4011-99c0-3a22216223bb" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Halo: Spartan Assault</a></strong></em>. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Skulls of the Shogun</em> syncs your progress between the Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Phone, and Xbox Live Arcade versions of the game (assuming you’ve bought more than one), and allows players on one platform to go head-to-head with users of other devices. “<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2044126/one-microsoft-all-the-time-what-ballmers-newly-unified-vision-could-mean-to-you.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">One Microsoft</a>” indeed.</span></div> <figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="skulls of the shogun" height="326" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/skulls-of-the-shogun-100160797-large.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Find strategic gameplay in ‘Skulls of the Shogun.’ (Click to enlarge.)</span></div> </figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Halo: Spartan Assault</em> is, well, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Halo</em>, even if it can’t cross platform borders as <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Skulls of the Shogun</em> can. And hey—if those don’t scratch your gaming itch, you can pick up fun, touch-optimized versions of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/1a36fd17-5161-4651-ae2d-13384e427ea8" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Solitaire</a></strong></em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/microsoft-minesweeper/45ac18d7-e742-494f-a1b1-009aa412a179" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Minesweeper</a></strong></em>.</span></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Getting social</span></h2> <figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="twitter windows 8" height="326" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/twitter-windows-8-100160798-large.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Tweeting my peeps. </i></span></div> </figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No Windows tablet is an island, given Windows 8’s cloud-centric nature. The Windows Store lacks apps for many social networks, but the big two—<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/facebook/add3d66a-358d-4fe2-be68-8a3f934e9ea1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a></strong>and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/twitter/8289549f-9bae-4d44-9a5c-63d9c3a79f35" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Twitter</a></strong>—are available, along with a surprisingly awesome <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/3b4b8be2-f224-4827-9449-019739d9c4c8" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Foursquare</a></strong> app.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The two big-name apps each have some quirks: Twitter lacks in-stream retweet/favorite options, and you can’t share content to Facebook via the Share charm. Overall, however, the two apps are rock-solid. They deliver systemwide notifications, as well, and you can “snap” them to a portion of the screen for handy multitasking, just as you can any other proper Windows app—two highly useful additions.</span></div> <figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="foursquare" height="327" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/foursquare-100160793-large.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Windows 8 Foursquare app is purdy, and it can point you toward local businesses and restaurants.</i> </span></div> </figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Beyond social networks, you’ll want to download <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/im-instant-messenger/99c049c4-5ef8-4b17-802e-4cf5463d4ef3/m/ROW" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">IM+</a></strong> if you use instant messaging services. The Messages app in Windows 8 offers bare-bones IM support, and the Skype app that replaced it in Windows 8.1 doesn’t even have Messages’ Facebook chat support. IM+, in contrast, plays nice with Facebook, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, and plenty of other IM services—including Skype.</span></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">A portable boob tube</span></h2> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fortunately, the Windows Store has a solid lineup of entertainment apps just waiting to please your peepers, and video and audio apps are an especially good fit for the modern UI.</span></div> <figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="hyper for youtube" height="326" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/hyper-for-youtube-100160796-large.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hyper for YouTube offers an elegant video-viewing interface. </span></div> </figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/d8d75bb2-c5cd-44f2-8c26-c1d1ae5b13fa" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Netflix</a></strong> and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/ad77e4ed-0398-4f5b-a41e-88973007dca1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Hulu Plus</a></strong> subscribers will want to check out those respective apps post-haste. YouTube, unfortunately, isn’t available as an app, but you won’t mourn its loss if you check out <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/hyper-for-youtube/aa71044c-c4b9-4a9c-96fa-2ab6f9d716c8" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Hyper for YouTube</a></strong>, a slick YouTube viewer that includes video-quality options and full YouTube account support. (Most of the YouTube-related offerings in the Windows Store don’t.) Or, if you’re just into YouTube for the free tunes, check out the free <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/60041c70-3a67-4917-b120-eef7180a16c9" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Vevo</a></strong> app.</span></div> <figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="slacker radio windows 8" height="326" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/slacker-radio-windows-8-100160800-large.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Slacker Radio app contains a wealth of artist and album info, beyond its killer station selection. </span></div> </figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you’re looking to soothe your savage breast, install <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/bd964815-8620-4a05-abf9-ad1f87f68027" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Slacker Radio</a></strong>. Sure, Windows 8 bakes in the Xbox Music service by default, but Xbox Music restricts your free listening after six months and has limited device support outside of Microsoft’s ecosystem. Slacker Radio offers free, unlimited listening to the service’s superb<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</em> 300-plus, DJ-curated radio stations, while subscribing for $10 per month unlocks on-demand music and playlist support.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But what if you’re already a Spotify subscriber? The fan-made <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/cbbddd16-5d65-453b-b556-de3e7b3afa15" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Spotlite</a></strong> app lets premium Spotify subscribers jam to the service’s tunes, and it sports a sleek, Xbox Music–esque interface.</span></div> <figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="plex windows 8" height="326" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/plex-windows-8-100160795-large.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Finally, if you have a large music and movie library of your own, grab <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/plex/647bfcf7-7f87-4a72-ad86-2e6274f969e3" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Plex</a></strong>. </span></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Go read a book</span></h2> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Display resolutions are only climbing higher, and with a flood of easily graspable 8-inch tablets such as the <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2068828/dell-venue-8-pro-review-windows-8-1-in-a-pint-sized-package.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Dell Venue 8 Pro</a>, <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2054399/lenovo-shows-off-an-8-inch-bay-trail-t-tablet-the-miix2.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Lenovo Miix2</a>, and <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2055580/acer-joins-the-8-inch-windows-tablet-fray-with-the-atom-powered-iconia-w4.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Acer Iconia W4</a>hitting the shelves, Windows tablets can be a great way to catch up on your reading.</span></div> <figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="nook windows 8" height="327" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/nook-windows-8-100160807-large.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Windows Store features both <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/kindle/1d7e4396-0143-4aed-8892-84eb75e799f3" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Kindle</a></strong> and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/05dbbb07-cd42-4a5f-9cd3-a329d52bd372" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Nook</a></strong> apps. Each serves as a gateway to the bounty of ebooks and magazines available in their respective digital bookstores.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If your tastes skew toward shorter forms, try the stellar <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/e62e393a-acc9-40d9-a34a-13a41f2eeef0" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Flipboard</a></strong> app, which finallytouched down in the Windows Store this fall. It compiles stories from around the Web into a beautiful magazine-style format. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/comics/39c58b6e-8b89-4127-a7a3-914cc7918b98" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Comixology</a></strong>, meanwhile, has more than 40,000 digital comics available for purchase from top-name publishers such as Marvel, DC, and Image. Some people have run into minor bugs with the app, but nothing crippling, and its deep troves are a wonderful way to spend any day.</span></div> <figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="comixology windows 8" height="343" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/comixology-windows-8-100160794-large.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Comixology is a comic lover’s dream app. </i></span></div> </figcaption></figure><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-top: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Cool extras</span></h2> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some of Windows 8’s best apps don’t fit into the neat boxes we’ve talked about. If you’re not overwhelmed with all the choices yet, check out the following.</span></div> <ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;"> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.45em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/bing-maps-preview/75ce2a6a-8a25-4916-83d0-19b8e7b60787" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Bing Maps Preview</a></strong> is a version of Bing Maps that supports <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2068830/bing-maps-preview-is-microsofts-answer-to-google-earth.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth–like 3D maps</a>. It’s a big improvement over the basic Bing Maps, and with Google largely sitting on the Windows Store sidelines, it’s the marquee maps option available for Windows tablets.</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.45em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you go cuckoo for Coco Crisp or any other athlete or sports team, you’ve got to grab the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/3c3536bd-f432-468c-a6e4-fa1ecd49e5fc" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">ESPN</a></strong> Windows 8 app, which dishes out up-to-the-minute scores, analysis, and videos from the Worldwide Leader in Sports. Plus, you can pin live tiles for your favorite teams to the Windows 8 Start screen.</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.45em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/5980cefa-aafa-47e4-8ef1-8d72fc208dc0" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Music Maker Jam</a></strong> lets you make your own jams, man, complete with an orchestra’s worth of premade loops and a multitude of effects. It’s a blast.</span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.45em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you’re over 21, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/88e08b7c-10d0-45b8-9280-946bd889e243" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Cocktail Flow</a></strong> is the personal bartender you’ve always wanted. The app packs alcoholic-drink recipes and recommendations by type, by spirit, by whatever you have in your liquor cabinet, or heck, even by color. Grab the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/41465f3f-1ecd-4e43-814d-a77b12ff2fbd" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Allrecipes</a></strong> food app to go with it, and you’ll never have to think about dinner again.</span></li> </ul> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.546875px;"><i>Source  : <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2080811/25-excellent-apps-to-install-on-your-new-windows-tablet.html">PCWorld</a></i></span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.546875px;"><i>Image : TechHive</i></span></span></div>

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Microsoft launches safety app for Windows Phone for India

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzJVbeR7rqiYUuxvE2VYB2n33nz_seXwZf26xAfHI8zjmTaZcefpi9ESPMmK6Trz-9VMvTqrut2cJ3qMnvNXzFr1hJ_Q9xbb4zwtMNVw8oZwDE6S35nwXAFiTni90gFQsGAW5lD_Es34I/s1600/app.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzJVbeR7rqiYUuxvE2VYB2n33nz_seXwZf26xAfHI8zjmTaZcefpi9ESPMmK6Trz-9VMvTqrut2cJ3qMnvNXzFr1hJ_Q9xbb4zwtMNVw8oZwDE6S35nwXAFiTni90gFQsGAW5lD_Es34I/s320/app.jpg" width="174" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Windows Phone</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Users can allow their families and friends to track them in real time during emergency situations by turning on the feature, which runs on Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map APIs. An SOS alert button also lets them connect with security agencies, police and hospitals, or send distress messages to a customized list of contacts via SMS, e-mail or Facebook.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The app was developed over six months by a group of enthusiastic Microsoft employees in India, under the Microsoft Garage intiative which lets staff explore their ideas. It follows a slew of <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/fight-back-with-mobile-safety-app-fightback-7000012249/" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">similar apps</a> in India recently catering to heightened concerns over public safety of women, on the back of a high profile gang rape in Delhi earlier this year.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Our employees wanted to do something to enable people to feel safer in our cities. So they used their spare time to develop Guardian. Guardian is a robust personal security app with more safety features and capabilities than any other comparable app available to Indian smartphone users today," said Raj Biyani, Managing Director of Microsoft IT India.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The <a href="http://aka.ms/guardianapp" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Guardian app</a> is officially available for free only for Windows Phone users in India. While Microsoft plans to eventually roll out the service to other countries, it is already downloadable and functional, according to <a href="http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-india-launches-guardian-safety-app-windows-phone-8" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">reports</a>. </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/in/microsoft-launches-safety-app-for-windows-phone-users-in-india-7000024652/">ZDNet</a></span></i></div>

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Windows Phone 8.1 Update Release

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1h6mTONsOrLqu4wgIYah4ht59eKkb2EH2mBz-7ffg514D3tM30CCNnu4rS2mtfXGBs1Y0b5ncY0WnHcQorP4XcbENyQr7pYSqYDYRDRcA0__0hmcq_FEorvTK57tnCRtIqNVSCjwb3nU/s1600/lumia-1020-600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1h6mTONsOrLqu4wgIYah4ht59eKkb2EH2mBz-7ffg514D3tM30CCNnu4rS2mtfXGBs1Y0b5ncY0WnHcQorP4XcbENyQr7pYSqYDYRDRcA0__0hmcq_FEorvTK57tnCRtIqNVSCjwb3nU/s640/lumia-1020-600.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Windows Phone 8.1 Update Release </span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #565656; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Windows Phone was new, fresh, fluid, digitally authentic but still late with lots of catch up in term of hardware and app counts. Two years in the market, the operating system did not turn the market upside down as Microsoft was hoping. In a way, it seems the people at Microsoft understood that the release of Windows Phone 7.0, which was followed the next iteration of the operating system with the code name Mango, was a way to have something on the market instead of waiting to play in a market that has two competitors with significant leads. While there were good phone with the first version of Windows Phone 7.0 and 7.1, they were not great as what Apple had with the iPhone, and Samsung and HTC had with Android.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #565656; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fast forward two years since the release of Window Phone, Microsoft and Nokia announced a strategic partnership to alleviate the struggle that both company were facing on a market that they were leading years ago. Microsoft lost lots of market share with Windows Mobile and Nokia only dominated the market for features phone, which was shrinking at fast pace and replaced by smartphones. The problem for both company was that the smartphone was growing very fast with some substantial and guaranteed growth in term of financial profits. Apple and Samsung and HTC have an establish ecosystem of mobile app and good hardware. In fact the more app the companies have, the more appealing their ecosystem are. Window Phone, even after two years in the market did not have that. That the situation Microsoft and Nokia are facing was dire to say the least.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #565656; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Critics are always quick to point the significantly less number of app that is available for Windows Phone, the lack of support for quad-core processors, the lack of support for 1080p screen resolution. For Microsoft and Nokia to have a chance to regain the old days of glory would need to have more mobile apps, support for the latest processors and screen resolution, and big screen phatblet-size ( i.e 5 – 6 inches) according to many bloggers.</span></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #565656; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 0.83em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Suddenly, More Is Bad</span></h2> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #565656; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today, Nokia announced the Lumia 1020, their next flagship of the Lumia story, the reaction on the web has been understandably and quite unexpectedly confusing. Commentators and would-be verge journalists were asking who actually need 41 megapixel when a camera with 10 megapixel is fine for most users. I am not going to quote anyone, but if you were following the live blog on The Verge or most tech website, the main reaction is that no one really need 41MP camera on a phone. Some even criticized that the Lumia 1020 does not support 1080p screen or the last quad-core processor. Suddenly more is bad when it comes to megapixel and more is better when it comes to processor speed, screen size and number of apps.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #565656; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Obviously, it is clear that the bloggers are biased towards the products that they use and this is not objective journalism and I don’t expect anything else, these guy are not journalists. Nevertheless, I expect a certain level of unbiased coverage. As a Windows Phone, I recognize the plethora of apps that is available for iPhone and Android ecosystem, something I wish that Windows Phone has. Nevertheless, in term of hardware, there is nothing I envy that Apple and Android’s OEM are offering now. Windows Phone have some great hardware and the best camera ever on any smartphone. 41 megapixels is better than 10 megapixel, the same way 1080p is better than 720p, the same 700,000 apps is better than 130,00 apps. More is still better even with megapixel and Windows Phone is the only phone that has. // <a href="http://societyandreligion.com/" style="background-color: transparent;">societyandreligion.com</a></span></div>

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Microsoft has released a new version of the Facebook app for Windows Phone 8

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsk2LmY8jrQ_7LF5e7H_mmksXUxhAooX79VYk_YDeTdwXXRKRR5VhUN7-CCEbjKWcE1FOVvoa6ckC1ybfP3sKIcC5GizPuz3PZbaW6kpndj8LTM9ED4kI4Cs52F5dT4049l63cw5nnaE/s1600/Facebook+Update+For+Windows+Phone+8.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Microsoft has released a new version of the Facebook app for Windows Phone 8</i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsk2LmY8jrQ_7LF5e7H_mmksXUxhAooX79VYk_YDeTdwXXRKRR5VhUN7-CCEbjKWcE1FOVvoa6ckC1ybfP3sKIcC5GizPuz3PZbaW6kpndj8LTM9ED4kI4Cs52F5dT4049l63cw5nnaE/s1600/Facebook+Update+For+Windows+Phone+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></a></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Microsoft is making the festive season merrier with a latest update brought to its official Facebook app for Windows Phone 8.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People love sharing their favorite moments with the world through numerous social networking sites today and therefore improving the overall in-app experience of the world's largest social networking site, Facebook makes total sense. The mobile app has been redesigned effectively to give its users a great experience.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The update for Facebook Windows 8 app rolled out Monday. It lets users receive toast notifications when tagged or invited or when a message is received. The Redmond-based software giant has also improved Facebook's primary Live Tiles on the Start screen to show updates like friends' updates on the wall. The redesigned app, which brings the version to 5.2, also debuts new secondary Live Tiles to let users pin chats, events, groups, pages, and photo albums to the Start screen. This makes access to any page easier than ever.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Only on Windows Phone can you see who commented on a photo, what they wrote and which photo they commented on, from you phone's Start screen Live Tile," Microsoft's Michael Stroh said in the company's <a href="http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2013/12/23/official-facebook-app-for-windows-phone-gets-better-notifications-new-live-tiles.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold !important; line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><strong style="list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;">official blog</strong>,</a> Monday.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The updated Facebook app for Windows Phone 8 supports 30 new languages, bringing the total to 50. The latest update is one of the biggest WP8 has received in a long time. The new features come after the software giant testing them in the beta versions, which is also available in Windows Phone Store.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The app has also received some bug fixes and performance upgrades. The updated app can be downloaded for free via <strong style="list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/facebook/82a23635-5bd9-df11-a844-00237de2db9e" rel="nofollow" style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Windows Phone Store.</a></strong></span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Via : </span><a href="http://www.hngn.com/articles/20475/20131226/facebook-update-windows-phone-8-brings-improved-primary-tiles-secondary.htm">Hngn</a></span></i></div>

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Microsoft Up Encryption After NSA Spying Reports

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody> <tr><td><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="http://itrumors.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/9357e-how-to-spy-on-people.jpg?w=400&h=400" width="400" /></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>NSA spying</i></span></span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If true, NSA spying could “seriously undermine confidence in the security and privacy of online communications,” Microsoft’s general counsel, Brad Smith, said in a <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/12/04/protecting-customer-data-from-government-snooping.aspx" target="_blank">blog post</a>. “In light of these allegations, we’ve decided to take immediate and coordinated action.”</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Smith pledged to “pursue a comprehensive engineering effort to strengthen the encryption of customer data across our networks and services.” That includes major communications, productivity, and developer services such as Outlook.com, Office 365, SkyDrive, and Windows Azure.</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="more-38"></span></span></span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Content moving between customers and Microsoft’s servers will be encrypted by default, as will communications moving between Redmond’s data centers, using “best-in-class industry cryptography to protect these channels, including Perfect Forward Secrecy and 2048-bit key lengths,” Smith said. “All of this will be in place by the end of 2014, and much of it is effective immediately.”</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Smith said Office 365 and Outlook.com customer content is already encrypted when traveling between customers and Microsoft, while most Office 365 workloads as well as Windows Azure storage are now encrypted in transit between data centers.</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In addition to encryption, Microsoft also said it will “take new steps to reinforce legal protections for our customers’ data,” – like informing them when the feds request data. “Where a gag order attempts to prohibit us from doing this, we will challenge it in court,” Smith said.</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The company will also open a “network of transparency centers” in Europe, the Americas and Asia that will build on “our long-standing program that provides government customers with an appropriate ability to review our source code, reassure themselves of its integrity, and confirm there are no back doors.”</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Ultimately, we’re sensitive to the balances that must be struck when it comes to technology, security and the law, … but we also want to live in a country that is protected by the Constitution,” Smith concluded. “We believe these new steps strike the right balance, advancing for all of us both the security we need and the privacy we deserve.”</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reports that Microsoft would step up encryption <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2427747,00.asp">emerged last month</a>. That came after The Washington Post, citing documents provided by Edward Snowden, reported on MUSCULAR, an NSA program that operates in conjunction with the U.K. version of the NSA, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Together, they “are copying entire data flows across fiber-optic cables that carry information between the data centers of the Silicon Valley giants” like Yahoo and Google, the paper said.</span></span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Source :<a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2427962,00.asp"> PCMag</a></i></span></span></div>

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How To Show Themes And Wallpapers On Windows 8.1 Start Screen

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeQ7VfEOjYTsK053QJ5dbzezeEwP46ix6mk4Bq54n5_D5cOyfKwTLme_mbEEvrmvCCJ8sNaeESXpwVZ_M8IHry_MA3cwNCsniFF7BorK3DnJiBB-QwQansUFDemWRBjXMCecBTgcScK9xa/s1600/windows+8.1++properties+(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><i>Taskbar in Windows 8.1</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeQ7VfEOjYTsK053QJ5dbzezeEwP46ix6mk4Bq54n5_D5cOyfKwTLme_mbEEvrmvCCJ8sNaeESXpwVZ_M8IHry_MA3cwNCsniFF7BorK3DnJiBB-QwQansUFDemWRBjXMCecBTgcScK9xa/s1600/windows+8.1++properties+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></a></div><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Right-click on a blank area your Taskbar in Windows 8.1, and choose Properties in the pop-up menu.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then in the Taskbar and Navigation Properties window click on Navigation tab.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tick mark the Show my desktop background on Start check box.</span></li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 20px;" /></span><div style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); line-height: 17px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 4px 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jr1f41hHK0s/UrWklqT-fiI/AAAAAAAAA6c/p7KR2ISkRIA/s1600/wallpaper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Tick the checkbox" border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jr1f41hHK0s/UrWklqT-fiI/AAAAAAAAA6c/p7KR2ISkRIA/s400/wallpaper.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; max-width: 620px; padding: 2px; position: relative;" title="Use Desktop Wallpaper on the Start Screen" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 4px 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Put the tick-mark on the area which has been rounded.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"></div><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then click OK.</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">When you are done with the above steps, the results are predictably excellent</span></span><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); line-height: 17px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 4px 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://winsupersite.com/site-files/winsupersite.com/files/uploads/2013/06/start-w-wallpaper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Demo to wallpaper as start screen background" border="0" height="225" src="http://winsupersite.com/site-files/winsupersite.com/files/uploads/2013/06/start-w-wallpaper.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; max-width: 620px; padding: 2px; position: relative;" title="Use Desktop Wallpaper on the Start Screen" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 4px 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Now enjoy it </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div></div></ul><div><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 22px;">Don't Miss : </span><a href="http://www.itrumors.net/2013/12/defrag-option-to-windows-7-8-right.html" itemprop="url" style="opacity: 0.75; 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How To Show Themes And Wallpapers On Windows 8.1 Start Screen

Taskbar in Windows 8.1 Right-click on a blank area your Taskbar in Windows 8.1, and choose Properties in the pop-up menu. Then in the Taskba...

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