The OEMpire strikes back

Microsoft’s best buddies are increasingly going Google.

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Windows 8 should never have mashed up desktop and mobile

For once, I disagree with Hal Berenson.

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Microsoft shuns its own Silverlight while embracing Flash

I honestly didn’t see this one coming, not from a million miles away.

I can’t begin to imagine how Silverlight developers must feel – along with the corporate types who signed off on developing Silverlight sites.

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Windows 8: Down but not out

A couple tiny glimmers of hope for Win8 fans.

I know there are one or two of you out there.

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Windows 8 boot guide:

Your first hour with the new OS.

Windows Secrets Newsletter.

Steve Ballmer: Four million upgrades sold for Win8

Some interesting math…

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52 percent of US adults have never heard of Windows 8

I found that to be a very sobering number…

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Minimize Metro!

How desktop fans running Win8 can reduce the intrusiveness of the Metro interface.

There’s a handful of tricks that really do minimize the amount of Metro intrusion, but still let you use Metro whenever you really want to.

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