Interesting Software and System News

[Pondus]

Encrypt your files before they sync to Dropbox®, Box®, Google Drive™, OneDrive® or any other folder on your devices.
https://www.viivo.com/

[Para-Noid]

Satya Nadella Just Made The Single Best (And Most Obvious) Decision For Microsoft Windows
http://www.businessinsider.com/nadella-merges-windows-phone-windows-2014-7

Additional reading here http://www.businessinsider.com/windows-9-rumors-features-2014-7

Maybe it's still W8 and see. 

[DavidR]

Satya Nadella Just Made The Single Best (And Most Obvious) Decision For Microsoft Windows
http://www.businessinsider.com/nadella-merges-windows-phone-windows-2014-7

Additional reading here http://www.businessinsider.com/windows-9-rumors-features-2014-7

Maybe it's still W8 and see. 

Such a shame it has taken over two years from the initial fiasco of win8, given the shed loads of negative reviews in the early trials. But they knew better and carried on regardless in the face of these negative reviews.

[CraigB]

I've never understood why people complain so much over the old style start menu, simply clicking on the windows key in win8 gives faster access to a full start menu that is much more visible imo

[Para-Noid]

Concerning Win8 this chart speaks for itself...http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

[!Donovan]

I've never understood why people complain so much over the old style start menu, simply clicking on the windows key in win8 gives faster access to a full start menu that is much more visible imo

The metro start also goes out of memory after long periods of no use, making it lag somewhat (5-20 seconds) when pressing the Start Button on cheaper machines.

[CraigB]

I've never understood why people complain so much over the old style start menu, simply clicking on the windows key in win8 gives faster access to a full start menu that is much more visible imo

The metro start also goes out of memory after long periods of no use, making it lag somewhat (5-20 seconds) when pressing the Start Button on cheaper machines.

Don't have that problem on any of my 3 personal win8 systems, the cheaper two still have 4Gb memory though and the Asus laptop has 16Gb.

It might depend on how much crap people are trying to run on those cheap systems

[DavidR]

Concerning Win8 this chart speaks for itself...http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Well that chart is only for the w3schools site so doesn't accurately represent country or worldwide stats.

Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files, over many years, clearly shows the long term trends.

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Benjamin Disraeli

[Para-Noid]

It may not be the most accurate but it does give a viewer a general idea.

This one Shows basically the same trend... http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

[DavidR]

It may not be the most accurate but it does give a viewer a general idea.

This one Shows basically the same trend... http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

It might show a trend, but the OS figures (%) are like chalk and cheese compared to w3schools site stats.

[Para-Noid]

lifehacker names avast most popular antivirus!

http://lifehacker.com/five-best-desktop-antivirus-applications-1607557993/1609811791/+alanhenry/+alanhenry

[Para-Noid]

It may not be the most accurate but it does give a viewer a general idea.

This one Shows basically the same trend... http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

It might show a trend, but the OS figures (%) are like chalk and cheese compared to w3schools site stats.

When more than one site show the same trend I take notice.
People are waiting before moving to another Microsoft OS.

[DavidR]

It may not be the most accurate but it does give a viewer a general idea.

This one Shows basically the same trend... http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

It might show a trend, but the OS figures (%) are like chalk and cheese compared to w3schools site stats.

When more than one site show the same trend I take notice.
People are waiting before moving to another Microsoft OS.

I don't follow trends, I follow my requirements.

[bob3160]

64 bit Chrome browser beta now available for testing.

[bob3160]

AV-Test Shows Malwarebytes is #1 Malware Killer