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Microsoft Corp has finally opened its windows this week for upgrades to the latest version of its operating system, Windows 8. Those who own personal computers can avail of the upgrade for $14.99 to $39.99. Customers who bough their PC’s on Windows 7 since June 2 will be granted the lower price while the rest would have to pay the $40 dollar upgrade. The Windows 8 Operating Systems, however, will be delivered starting only on October 26. The latest version of the company’s OS comes as a response to rival Apple’s iPad tablets. Windows 8 has been developed to support both PC’s and tablet computers.
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Apple now faces another trademark-lawsuit in China filed by a Jiangsu Xuebao, a chemical company, who argues the US tech firm knowingly infringed trademarks with its Snow Leopard Operating system. Xuebao is the Chinese equivalent of Snow Lopard.
The chemical company said that Apple had applied for the same trademark in 2008 but had been rejected by the office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. Jiangsu Xuebao is a known company for commodity products like shoe polish, toothpaste, and other household chemicals.
The latest lawsuit comes on the heels of the a recent trademark legal issue Apple faced regarding the iPad. The company paid US$60 Million to resolve the dispute with Proview Technology.
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by Gregg Keizer | COMPUTER WORLD
On Monday, Microsoft announced a record low price for the upcoming Windows 8, telling customers that they could upgrade their PCs — even aged machines running Windows XP — for just $39.99 later this year.
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By Mary Jo Foley for All About Microsoft via ZDNet
Microsoft has shared with select partners some specifics about what those upgrading to Windows 8 can expect when moving from Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Windows fans, rejoice! The latest preview of Windows 8 is available for your testing pleasure.
Microsoft announced on May 31 that the Windows 8 Release Preview, the company’s final prerelease of the forthcoming OS, is now available for download in 14 different languages. You can get it right now by visiting this site here and following the download instructions.
Within a day of Microsoft releasing the Windows 8 Consumer Preview to the general public, the company reported that more than 1 million people had downloaded the beta of the upcoming operating system.
For those considering whether to load up the Consumer Preview, Microsoft has now offered up a list of system recommendations for running the software. They include a device with a 1GHz (or faster) processor, 1GB RAM (32-bit) or 2GB RAM (64-bit), 16GB available hard-disk space (32-bit) or 20GB (64-bit), and a DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 (Windows Display Driver Model 1.0) or higher driver.
Windows 8 has been engineered to work equally well on tablets as desktops and laptops; the Metro-style start screen (Metro being the name for Microsoft’s new design aesthetic, which increasingly unites products from Windows 8 to Windows Phone) is composed of a set of colorful (and touchable) tiles linked to applications, with the “old-style” desktop interface accessible via a single click or finger tap. In theory, the evolution will allow Microsoft to hold onto the PC OS market while expanding in a major way into the mobile segment.
