Windows Store has 35,971 apps
According to MetroStore Scanner the Microsoft Store has 35,971 apps for Windows 8.
That’s 16,000 more apps than the Microsoft Store had at the end of November.
The rate of new apps has accelerated to 415 per day from 362 per day in November.
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Windows 8 versions
The introduction of touch to desktops began with Windows 8 in October 2012. Microsoft’s new touch operating system slowly gains user acceptance.
But will Windows 8 be enough to keep Microsoft from sliding into 3rd place in computers and mobile devices?
Since launch Windows 8 has sold 40,000 million licenses and now has 2.3% of all Windows traffic on the Internet. Continue reading
Google announced the end of Exchange sync and Microsoft is courting Google customers with 90-day free for Office 365, the cloud based mail and shared calendars app.
Normally Microsoft offers a 30 trial for Office 365 their Cloud service. The offer has been extended to 90 days.
The timing of the offer is important since Google announced they are ending the free support of Exchange sync, a necessary conduit between Google mail/calendar and MS Office. Continue reading
Placing Amazon.com ads where you want them in your WordPress blog is easy with a few tweaks of the HTML code. As they say, code or be controlled in this world. It should also work for any webpage and other iframes.
Amazon.com is adamant that Associates are not allowed to edit the HTML of their banner or link ads. That creates problems when you want to do things like wrap text around the ad to make it fit better on the page.
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SkyDrive Xbox 360
Microsoft has released the update to Xbox 360 that integrates it with The Cloud on SkyDrive.
SkyDrive is Microsoft’s version of cloud storage for users like iCloud and Dropbox.
Samsung ATIV Windows 8 tablet (photo credit ZDNET)
“I want to get a new computer, maybe a laptop this fall to watch movies, do Facebook and read my email. What should I get?” asked a friend on Facebook.
My reply was to wait until the game-changing Windows 8 ships on October 26 22, 2012. If you want touch computing, everything for sale today will be instantly out-of-date.
If you don’t want touch, the computers available now will be selling at a deep discount as most consumers migrate to more powerful and fun Windows 8 platform. Continue reading
Windows 8 file manager is flat and only has the “Charms” Search (Windows key C from Metro) screenshots by Stephen Pate/NJN
Like the Emperor who has no clothes, Windows 8 Metro has no file manager. Microsoft says the current lack of a decent Metro file manager for Windows 8 is by design.
If it is, they are trying to “dumb down” the advanced Windows 7 file manager to something worse than Apple’s Finder. There is a solution that forces you back to Windows Explorer and out of Metro, which more or less defeats any advantage of Windows 8 Metro.
