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Twitter for Windows 8 Official App Released

Twitter has finally delivered a native Windows 8 app that works well in Windows 8 metro interface. Twitter announced plan for a great Windows 8 app in October 2012 and since then users are waiting for the same. It is offers similar features like what you see on other platforms, Home, Discover, ... Read More →

Microsoft to update Windows 8 apps ahead of Windows Blue

Windows 8 comes with pre-installed core apps that were optimized to run in Metro interface of Windows 8, these include Windows Mail, Calendar, Music and Games. All of these might get a refresh before we see the next major update to the Windows platform in the form of Windows Blue. ... Read More →

Windows Phone 8 will receive upgrades

Windows Phone 7 users are left in the cold when Windows phone 8 came to the market, as there is no upgrade path from Windows Phone 7 to Windows Phone 8. Microsoft executive Greg Sullivan said that WP 8 users won’t have this problem, they will receive upgrades in the future as the OS is fundamentally ... Read More →

Internet Explorer 10 released for Windows 7

Microsoft has released the final version of the Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7. Internet Explorer 10 came with Windows 8 and Window 8 RT operating system. The browser is available to download in 95 languages from IE site. ... Read More →

Outlook.com is out of preview mode, boasts 60 million users

Microsoft took Outlook.com, the free web mail service out of it’s preview mode today. Microsoft first launched Outlook.com preview in last July that will eventually replace Hotmail as a free email service. Along with the announcement Microsoft says that it is starting a large-scale marketing ... Read More →

Turn Windows 8 into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

Virtual Routers will turn your internet connection to Wi-Fi hotspot, there are some free virtual router applications to do the same. They use Wireless Hosted Network Technology to turn your Windows 7 or Windows 8 machine into a Wi-Fi hotspot. ... Read More →

IE10 Preview for Windows 7 is available for download

IE10 came with Windows 8 and surprisingly it is only compatible with Windows 8 until now, but this is going to change now, as Microsoft has released IE10 release preview for Windows 7 users, Windows Vista and XP users are left in the old though. IE10 includes several speed improvements and other ... Read More →