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Windows 8 Mock-Ups From 2010

Rob BoyleNovember 20, 2012

by Rob BoyleNovember 20, 20120335

Warning: Undefined variable $class_attr in /customers/e/a/7/geekshavelanded.com/httpd.www/wp-content/plugins/jquery-image-lazy-loading/jq_img_lazy_load.php on line 57 The design of Windows 8 has been received both very well, and very poorly. Microsoft’s complete redesign of the Windows operating system is the biggest change in the OS’s history, and it has split loyal...

Here’s Firefox for Windows 8

Rob BoyleOctober 5, 2012

by Rob BoyleOctober 5, 20120418

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Technology

Windows Phone 8 Start Screen

Rob BoyleJune 21, 2012

by Rob BoyleJune 21, 20120376

Windows Phone 8 has been announced, sporting a new Windows Phone 8 start screen which displays a lot more information than it’s predecessor. Part of what was so incredible about WP7 was the user interface, which...

Technology windows 8

First Image of Chrome on Windows 8

Rob BoyleJune 8, 2012June 8, 2012

by Rob BoyleJune 8, 2012June 8, 20120555

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Windows 8 Release Preview, A Review

Rob BoyleJune 2, 2012

by Rob BoyleJune 2, 20120380

I still won’t be buying Windows 8. Microsoft have suddenly released the third and probably final test build of the upcoming operating system ‘Windows 8’, which features one of the biggest re-designs to Windows that...

Design Technology

Metro Blocks are Nano-Style Gadgets By Nokia

Rob BoyleMay 25, 2012

by Rob BoyleMay 25, 20120394

Here is a concept created by one of the actual designers at Nokia, who describes the idea as ‘Rectangles galore!’. Obviously as the creation is currently only a concept, there aren’t any details about the...

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Windows 8, Goodbye Aero

Rob BoyleMay 21, 2012

by Rob BoyleMay 21, 20120371

Microsoft have revealed that the latest edition of Windows will not come with the Aero Glass feature which was first introduced in Vista a few years back. Although Aero was still in the Windows 8...