2012,May

Intel vs ARM on Windows 8

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Windows 8 on ARM and Intel

Officials from Intel have pointed out that the company has an edge over its rival ARM on Windows 8 for tablets because of the decades of developing X86 chips which supports the Windows operating systems. The only competitor for Intel in the Windows 8 tablet market is ARM, whose processers are running in most tablets today. Even though ARM might have an entry point to Windows tablet market, it will still have to face the music in the market, considering the long association of Intel with Windows.

Windows traditionally has been running on X86 chips, but Microsoft is now also releasing Windows 8for the ARM architecture along with required Windows 8 drivers for making an entry in to the tablet market. The upcoming operating system, Windows 8, will be having a touch-based user interface and will come in three versions, Windows RT for ARM, Windows 8, and Windows 8 Pro for x86 chips.

Intel’s plan for Windows 8

Intel is planning to provide a new low-power Atom chip code-named Clover Trail, which is expected to be released by the end of 2012 along with Windows 8. They also have informed that PC makers are designing 20 Windows 8 tablets based on Intel chips.

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Windows 8 on ARM and Intel

There have been no public announcements from ARM makers regarding Windows 8 tablets; however, Microsoft is working with Nividia Qualcomm and Texas Instruments for bringing Windows 8 compatibility to tables and PCs.

Playing on compatibility

Taking full advantage of application compatibility, Intel’s CEO has recently commented that its new chip for Windows 8 tablet will be supporting older applications written for previous versions of Windows. He further explained that, just by pressing one button on the tablet, the user will be able to go to the legacy Windows mode for those who are in need of an older user interface. Intel based Windows 8 tablets will also be providing a snappy resource.

Lots of application compatibility issues have been raised in the past. Previous year, Intel claimed that legacy x86 applications won’t be working on ARM based Windows 8 tablets. However, this claim was later shot down by Microsoft who also made it clear that Windows on ARM cannot run on existing X86 applications.

That’s all with the information regarding Windows 8 drivers and tablets based on Intel and ARM.

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2012,May

New Windows 8 Drivers and Softwares for Microsoft’s Hardware products

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Softwares and drivers

Some of you might remember that sometime back, Microsoft had released “Microsoft Device Center” application to be included with the latest upcoming Windows 8 and its operating system. This same free application, as Microsoft explains, offers traditional mouse and keyword users with the ability in easily personalizing and customizing their own peripherals. And as such, the software giant has now updated its hardware products page in actively helping its users download a variety of Windows 8 drivers and other compatible softwares for pointing devices and keyboards via this application.

“Microsoft Device Center” provides for Windows 8 drivers and other software

Just recently, Microsoft also announced the possibility of new entries in its “Artist Edition” of the mouse family. The same decision was in fact conceived by many users as an ironic approach by the company owing to the concern that Microsoft came up with some of its finest pointing devices just when it was expected to move away from the same mouse and keyboard experience, towards touch tablet devices supporting Windows 8.

The company has, however put an end to all such speculations by getting the “Device Center” to its masses.

Microsoft Device Center

Now, the main highlight of this free application is that it requires the user to simply download and install the specific Device Center software necessary for getting one’s device to be compatible with Windows 8. And that is just about it.

The Device Center then takes full care of the rest of the remaining device installations and configuration procedures. And once after successful installation, a user can proceed with fine tuning one’s mouse and keyboard device via the settings included with it.

A note for all to remember would be that, you should first launch the application from your Windows 8 “Start Screen”. Following

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which, if at any stage you require help or assistance, you can very well access the application’s online “How To/Troubleshooting Library” which can offer you helpful tips and tricks in working more comfortably with your computer.

Besides, you can also explore more details on the features by getting on the “How-to” InfoTips or following descriptive pop-ups.

To finally conclude, you can get yourself the same Windows 8 drivers and other software for your mouse and keyboard devices from Microsoft’s official site. Also, new drivers for Webmacs, headsets and gaming routines are also expected soon enough.

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2012,May

Windows 8 with SkyDrive Storage tool

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SkyDrive Storage tool for Windows 8

With Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 8, it is planning to integrate SkyDrive cloud storage service to offer users the privilege to access their personal data or files from any computer and for using SkyDrive as a remote access service to get the files on their computer. Windows customers will eventually see that, with the advent of Windows 8, SkyDrive from being just a website, will evolve into a true “Device Cloud”.

With this plan, there will be a Metro-style SkyDrive app for Windows 8 drivers and SkyDrive will also integrate with Windows Explorer on the desktop. Users shall be able to use SkyDrive to remotely fetch their data from any PC running SkyDrive on its desktop. The SkyDrive app is included in Windows 8 consumer Preview.  The “Charms” and “Contracts” features in the new platform will make the SkyDrive functionality available to any app as a location to open and save files as if it were a local drive in your PC.

No additional Windows 8 drivers required

For developers, this would mean that, for any app that they build accessing files, SkyDrive will be supported automatically without the need of any additional formalities. This feature was made possible because, in Windows 8, Microsoft wanted users to be more convenient by making their files instantly available to them even when they move between PCs without the need of any add-on configuration or USB usage.

SkyDrive would also be integrated with other conventional Windows desktops, says Microsoft, to make Windows Explorer available to users for managing files and simply dragging and dropping files between local folders and SkyDrive. SkyDrive will run on Windows 7 and Windows Vista, but not on Windows XP. The program will integrate functionality from Microsoft’s Windows Live Mesh service, making it possible for users to keep SkyDrive synchronized with contents of a folder of their choice similar to how Drop box operates.

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SkyDrive Storage tool for Windows 8

Microsoft announced that by simply logging into SkyDrive.com, users can access their files stored on their PC from anywhere. If you forget to upload something to your SkyDrive account, and if you need any documents or contents from your PC, as long as the desktop you are using is running SkyDrive, you can access them from your computer. For security purposes, there will be a second level authorization requiring users to type in a code that SkyDrive sends to your phone.

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2012,May

Microsoft ditches DVD Playback from Windows 8 with Windows 8 Drivers

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Dropping DVD Playback

Microsoft, the company has just recently revealed that with the oncoming line of Windows 8 drivers, the same operating system will no longer be able to play DVDs out of the box. The reason being an attempt by the software giant at bringing down its production costs as a result of the feature’s diminishing popularity with the world’s computing crowd.

Instead, Microsoft aims at educating its users in installing third party software’s such as “Windows Media Center” if they still wish to avail the DVD playback feature on their copy of Windows 8.

Considering new Windows 8 drivers and the absence of DVD Playback

The team with Microsoft explains that the support for both DVD and TV requires active software codecs that have with time bumped up the cost of the existing Windows 7 editions solely through royalty payments. And as such, it gets passed on to the customer regardless of whether they watch DVDs on their computers or not.

Taking into account such concerns, Microsoft has decided that the Windows 8 Media Player will not support DVD playback as standard. And that users who require this functionality will still be able to avail themselves the same by getting Windows Media Center installed on their computers.

Additionally, Microsoft has also stated that, “Given the changing landscape, the cost of decoder licensing, and the importance of a straightforward edition plan, we’ve decided to make Windows Media Center available to Windows 8 customers via the ‘Add Features to Windows 8′ control panel”.

However, in fully understanding this turn of events, it appears that the Windows Media Center will be more or less a part of a larger

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Dropping DVD Playback

package that Microsoft refers to as the “Windows 8 Pro Pack” for users running the standard Windows 8 release, or the “Windows 8 Media Center Pack” for users with Windows 8 Pro. It has been reported that both of these packs will incur an additional charge on the customer to purchase.

Microsoft suggests that the pricing will not be disclosed until a date closer to the final release of Windows 8, but that it will be in line with marginal costs.

Finally to conclude, Microsoft said that Windows 8 will have specially built-in support for YouTube video, Netflix video, Amazon audio/video, H.264 web browsing/streaming, Hulu video, MP4 video, AVCHD video from camcorders, Ultraviolet video, and the HTML5 video tag.

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2012,May

Windows 8 can’t play DVDs

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Media Center in Windows 8

Windows 8 comes with many new features and provisions for the Windows users. But, the fact that Windows 8 won’t play DVDs is, more or less, a fallout. However, it doesn’t mean that you can never play DVDs in Windows 8, because this is possible if you buy an extra upgrade for the Windows 8 operating system, announced Microsoft. In order to play DVDs, users should either pay to upgrade to the ‘Media Center’ or download extra 3rd party software to play the DVD movies.

No built in Media Center in Windows 8

It was announced by Microsoft beforehand that Windows 8, unlike Windows 7, won’t come with Media Center software packaged into it as a standard. This move to exclude the DVD player was claimed to be the decline in use of television and DVD in computers. It is a true fact indeed. The official Building Windows 8 blog claims that Microsoft will have to spend a significant amount in royalties for offering support for optical media in future software. However, the support for online media shall be included in Windows 8 operating system including certain industry standards like, AAC, VC-1, H.264, MP4, MP3, WMA, Dolby Digital Plus codecs and PCM.

Also, the new ‘ultrabook’ computers which Microsoft and Intel see as increasingly adopting the Windows 8 operating system also do not have built in DVD drives; it is also to be noted that connecting external drives are becoming rare. Windows 8 will be running on tablets with some cool new Windows 8 drivers, which again, do not have DVD drives. The Media Center features TV recording and access to certain online video-on0demand services. So Microsoft says that cost will be kept “marginal”. In any case, Media Center was used by just 6 % of Windows 7 users from the data.

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Media Center in Windows 8

Windows Media Center is going to be made available to Windows 8 users through the Add Features to Windows 8 control panel. This will ensure that those customers who are interested in Media Center will get it conveniently. However, there will be Windows Media Player in all editions, but without DVD playback support. For the playback of optical discs, Windows 8 will rely on many Windows 8 drivers in the market giving great experiences for DVD and Blu-ray. Thank you!

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