Time for a quick timeout — It recently came to my attention that the Aussie Wine Guy app for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 is doing a pretty decent trade. It’s ranked amongst the top apps in the competitive Food & Dining category in the Windows App Store. This is […]
Windows 8
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This is a quick tip for those running Windows 8 who encounter this occasional problem where the Windows Explorer doesn’t display image thumbnails. Now, I’m going to assume that you’ve already checked the Explorer settings, and so on. This fixes a condition where the thumbnails appear very briefly (they flicker […]
If you are a user of the new “Windows to Go” feature of Windows 8 Enterprise edition, which enables you to boot and run the Windows 8 operating system off an external USB device, you may have noticed something odd when trying to use the Windows App Store: In a […]
Last month I submitted an App to the Windows App Store. The App, Sanders Technology Digest, is a Windows 8 App which uses articles from this site and provides full screen article views, content searches and better sharing support. The inaugural version (1.0) has now been published! Click here to […]
As the BUILD conference (formerly PDC) kicks off in Redmond, we are finally treated to the official launch of the long, long awaited Windows Phone 8 SDK. Held under wraps for months, with precious few copies of the pre-release being seen, this SDK has been a long time coming. The […]
As you my or may not know, Microsoft has been touting its long awaited answer to the Apple iPad – the Microsoft Surface – for some time now. This is Microsoft branded, Microsoft-built hardware which will come in two distinct flavours being a version running Windows 8 RT (on an […]
Overview The recently released Windows 8 operating system contained support for an interesting approach to running your operating system – off an external bootable device. This article will show you how to boot your operating system using an external USB drive. If you’re not sure what Windows To Go is […]
Regular readers of Sanders Technology will know (by now) that I’m not much of a user interface person. I started off in UX about 13 years ago, but gradually migrated into back-end systems like databases, data access design and web services. Does this disqualify me from passing judgement on user […]
Overview Well I’ve been officially running the RTM version of Windows 8 for two days now. I’d previously upgraded (‘bare metal’) from Windows 7 to Windows 8 Release Candidate a couple of weeks ago, so the experience is not exactly new for me. Fresh Installation The main difference at the […]
It’s been a massive week for Microsoft. We are really in full swing when it comes to the largest release cycle in Microsoft’s history. It all began on Wednesday at 10 AM PST (Pacific) which is an appallingly wee-hours 3 AM AEST (Australian East). Insomnia had gripped me, so with […]
So the official word was that the newly minted Windows 8 RTM build and Visual Studio 2012 would hit MSDN at some point on the 15th of August (possibly sometime in the US time zone). As of writing, still nothing has been published on MSDN Downloads. So to briefly divert […]
As reported across the globe, Windows 8 has officially gone RTM as of August 1st. The official release date schedule shows when you might expect to get your hands on the new version: August 15th: Developers will be able to download the final version of Windows 8 via your MSDN […]
Word today from Redmond is that the much anticipated next version of Microsoft Windows – Windows 8 – will be released to manufacturers (RTM) in early August, 2012. Given how stable and far along the Release Candidate (RC) edition has been, this should come as no big surprise. What will […]
Today was a big day if you happen to enjoy Release Candidate builds from Microsoft. Not only did we see the RC release of both Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 (and Hyper-V Server), but it also coincided with the release of RC editions of the Visual Studio 11 developer […]
Recently Microsoft released a ‘Consumer Preview’ of their upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Today I downloaded a copy of the release and installed it into a virtual machine. What follows are screenshots of the installation process, and some notes about the OS once it has finished installation. Installation The setup […]