Latest in: Windows 8

The Consumer Electronics Show always provides device manufacturers with an avenue to excite and fascinate current and potential customers, and this year Lenovo appear to have brought their A-game with their latest addition to the Tablet/Notebook hybrid space: The ThinkPad Helix. At first glance, the ThinkPad Helix certainly appears...

Samsung’s here and ready to play with a range of Windows 8 devices. The ATIV Smart PC product range give you plenty of options, but one of the most interesting is the ATIV Smart PC Pro. The convertible tablet and with keyboard dock brings the productivity of a notebook...

Vizual is a Windows 8 app that lets you visualise your twitter stream in a simple, fullscreen mode. This app is perfect for that spare monitor or even a business display. Once you’ve signed in, you’ll see your timeline stream down the screen. There’s landscape and portrait orientation support,...

NewHouse is the Windows 8 app to track your decisions as you build a new home. Initially when I published it, there was a bug preventing ARM support from working correctly, so instead release 1 supported only x86 of x64 processors. Great news this morning, release 2 of NewHouse...

This morning Microsoft announced that they had sold 40 Million Windows 8 licences since it’s launch on October 26th. That’s an awful lot of people who are wanting apps for the new platform. AppFest Sydney is Microsoft Australia’s first developer app-building event since Tech.Ed. It’s a great opportunity to...

When building a new house, people face literally hundreds of decisions. From the number of rooms, right down to the tap styles and location of power points. With so many decisions required, it’s difficult to keep track of all the choices made. NewHouse is a Windows 8 app that...

Reports straight out of The Verge, who have elected not to disclose sources relating to this matter, are detailing (and practically confirming) that Microsoft is ready to begin building its own gaming tablet. Simply stating that “multiple sources familiar with plans” have been in contact with them, the report...

What good is a new platform without Angry Birds right? Well check that one off the list, Angry Birds Space is now available in the Windows 8 Store. It does cost A$4.99 and has no trial option. The game would be amazing on some of the new touch-enabled hardware,...

You’ve read far too much about Windows 8 at this point, you’ve likely already made up your mind if your going to upgrade or not, so enough with the text. Now site back and watch the introductory video that was not just played, but presented at the Australian media...

Overnight Australia became one of the first countries in the world to start selling Windows 8 to consumers. While most developers and enthusiasts have been running previews of the OS for more than a year, it’s now time for retail availability. This means some of that new Windows 8...

Now it’s Toshiba’s turn to introduce Windows 8 hardware and there’s one that stands out. The Satellite U840W is features a 14.4” cinematic display is the world’s first Ultrabook with a 21:9 display. The ultra-thin, ultra-light Ultrabook now features a two-tone aluminium chassis, textured palm rest, multiple USB3.0 ports...

While there was no fancy 2 hour press conference at 4am, but today hardware manufacturer Dell has had a cracker. The company announced their first round of Windows 8 products. The large variety of new form factors is on display here and touch now standard on almost every new...

Ahead of the launch on October 26th, Microsoft have released a video to introduce the Skype app for Windows 8. Naturally the app takes on the clean Metro UI and integrates pretty heavily into the OS. The video shows off Skype integration into the people hub as well as...

Windows-To-Go is arguably one of the more “interesting” additions to Windows 8 Enterprise, allowing a user to execute a self-provisioned installation of Windows form a USB-based flash drive. However, what may be more interesting is the fact that popular hard disk manufacturer Western Digital are now marketing an external...

LG have are the latest in a growing list of hardware manufacturers to announce Windows 8 hardware. While some of you have already popped on a Surface RT, there’s a lot of new hardware on the way. Gone are the days of dull beige boxes being the boring smart...

Readiculous is a brand new Windows 8 app to read your RSS Feeds. While some are calling RSS dead, its apps like this that will keep it alive and well. After installing the app, you’ll be met with a prompt to connect to your Google Reader account. This gives...

Ahead of the retail launch of Windows 8 later this month, many have questioned how Microsoft will market the new operating system. Below is a creation by YouTube user rimondliu who says he made the commercial for an assessment. The video attempts to answer the long running question of...

A new application in the Windows 8 Store is 4Browsers. As the name suggests it’s 4 browsers in 1. This tries to solve a problem with Windows 8 apps, that is their single-tasking nature. Sure you can snap an application to the side of the screen, but power users...

The nature of software development means that you never get things right the first time. With that in mind, it’s now time to check your Windows 8 app updates because version 1.1 of the techAU app for Windows 8 is available! There’s a number of bug fixes and changes...

So Windows 8 is done, about to be available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers and soon to be shipping to the public. So now that it is here, the question is – why should you care? What’s new in Windows 8 that you should consider when deciding to update?...