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Vizio Adds Touchscreens, AMD, and a Tablet to 2013 PC Lineup

Posted 01/06/2013 at 11:48am | by Justin Kerr

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Vizio refreshes its lineup for 2013.

When Vizio entered the PC market last year, we didn’t quite know what to expect. The company has left quite the competitive mark on the TV industry, driving prices to levels few expected. The company’s lineup of Ultrabooks were fairly standard from an industrial design standpoint, but as our very own Paul Lilly pointed out, its the 1080p displays that really set them apart.

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Samsung Unveils Touchscreen Monitor for Windows 8

Posted 01/01/2013 at 8:10am | by Paul Lilly

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Two of the three monitors Samsung is bringing to CES will feature touchscreen panels.

Samsung will be attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas later this month, and we've been given a heads up to at least three products the company plans to bring with it. Two of them are new additions to its lineup of premium monitors, including the Series 7 SC770 Touch Monitor and Series 7 SC750 with 90 degrees of pivoting posture. The third monitor that will be on display is the Series 9 S27B970 for professionals.

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Windows 8 Store Adding Apps at an Impressive Rate

Posted 12/30/2012 at 1:46pm | by Justin Kerr

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Windows 8 will have quantity, but will it have quality?

The Windows 8 App Store has only been officially open for about two months now, but the number of apps available is just a few dozen away from passing over the 36,000 mark. That’s an impressive accomplishment to be sure; however it’s still difficult to single out any example of a “killer app” for the platform.

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Acer: Critics ‘Unfair’ to Windows 8

Posted 12/29/2012 at 11:32pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Acer president Jim Wong believes touchscreens are an “irreversible trend”

Acer has never made any bones about its displeasure about having to both partner and compete with Microsoft in the Windows 8 tablet market. But, just to be clear, the Taiwanese company only has a problem with the “Surface” bit of Microsoft’s tablet strategy and is otherwise satisfied with the overall direction in which Windows is headed.

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Windows 8 Off to a Worse Start Than Vista

Posted 12/28/2012 at 11:40am | by Paul Lilly

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Despite the hype, Windows 8's adoption rate is slower than of Vista's when it debuted five years ago.

If you listen to Microsoft, Windows 8 is not only the greatest operating system ever designed, it's also selling really well. Microsoft in November claimed it sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses in the first month, an impressive figure, even after you factor in all the OEM systems that come pre-loaded with Windows. But is Windows 8 truly off to a fast start? There's evidence to suggest that might not be the case.

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McAfee Threat Report Points to Windows 8 as "Next Big Target"

Posted 12/27/2012 at 10:41am | by Paul Lilly

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McAfee predicts rapid evolution of cyberthreats in 2013.

If you thought Windows 8 would provide refuge from an increasingly malware infested web, think again. Security firm McAfee has just released its annual Threat Predictions report in which it highlights the top threats it foresees for the coming year, and like it or not, Windows 8 is going to be a major target. Despite improved security in Windows 8, McAfee believes targeted malware will be available faster than it was for Windows 7.

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Windows 8 Previews Expiring Soon

Posted 12/25/2012 at 1:05am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Windows 8 Previews Set to Expire Soon

Windows 8 previews to expire in about three weeks’ time

The world may not have ended last week, as many doomsayers had feared (or hoped), but the continuing existence of our planet means that the various preview builds of Windows 8 will all expire next month.

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Atom Powered Windows 8 Tablets Delayed Due to Driver Issue

Posted 12/19/2012 at 10:19am | by Paul Lilly

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The majority of Windows 8 tablets won't start shipping until 2013.

Wondering where all the Windows 8 tablets that were supposed to ship before the end of the year are hiding? It seems they've all been bitten by a driver bug, or at least the ones built around Intel's Atom Z2760 processor. The "Clover Trail" part is an energy efficient CPU that promises all-day battery life, but it's reportedly been challenging trying to code drivers that are stable enough to pass Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) testing.

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Dell Warned Microsoft Over Windows RT Branding, Claims Dell Executive

Posted 12/18/2012 at 5:50am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Dell had reservations about Microsoft using Windows branding for its ARM-friendly tablet OS

At last week’s Dell World conference, the Texas-based PC manufacturer announced its decision to abandon the development of Android smartphones and tablets. As a result, Windows 8 tablets are going to be the sole focus of its mobile strategy from now on. This is despite the fact that Dell has always had reservations about a key part of Microsoft’s new horses-for-courses OS strategy: the OS naming scheme.

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