I have had the time, 6-8 weeks of trying out the new WIN8 OS so now I can make an experienced and qualified judgment of what it does for me. I have posted earlier WIN8 discoveries in this blog. I am running, screaming and hollering, clutching WIN7 OS tightly in my hot little computer-user hands. What? Yes, I said WIN7! Ha! I am just using a vivid metaphor to get some attention to my conclusion....
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Flash Wars
Still playing with Windows 8. I have been getting Flash errors in Internet Explorer 10 which was provided in Win8. Doing some internet research I discover MS has vowed to abolish browser plugins, most notably Adobe Flash. Well, Adobe Flash is sort of there as MS has built it into IE10. When I started getting Flash errors in IE10 (messages said I needed an update) I went to Adobe and I couldn’t even read the...
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I am playing in my Win8 sandbox to create this post. That is the name I gave my computer when I loaded Windows 8 on it a just over a month ago. Gee, it sure seems a lot longer than that. Hmm… I don’t know if that is a good sign or a bad one. Here is the First Look. The OS seems to be running flawlessly except for one hardware problem. The OS doesn’t...
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For the last few days I have been entertaining myself with Windows 8 Release Candidate Beta. I installed in clean on my “play” computer where I have been running Linux. I named the computer “Sandbox”. It asks for a name when you install. A new version operating system, especially a pre-release version is too dangerous to install on a computer for which I must depend. That’s why I have the Sandbox. My old dependable “office”...
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