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Microsoft Windows 8

TechReviewSource.com
30 October 2012
  • Excerpt: Microsoft's Windows 8 is a bold innovation, melding the worlds of tablets and PCs. Its excellent touch input, an app store, and better performance are compelling, but the...
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Microsoft Windows Phone 8

thinkdigit.com
26 August 2012
Overall 7
7.0

Microsoft Windows Phone 8

PC Magazine
9 July 2012
  • Conclusion: Windows Phone 8 is a good-looking, well-designed, easy-to-use mobile operating system, but with a very different set of apps compared with other platforms, it's still for
  • Pros: Well-designed interface. Excellent Microsoft Office, Outlook, and Windows 8 compatibility. Top-notch social network integration.
  • Cons: App selection is different from, and less than on other mobile platforms. Poor Mac compatibility. Few GPS navigation options on non-Nokia phones.
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Overall 8
8.0

Microsoft Windows 8

PC Magazine
7 July 2012
  • Conclusion: Windows 8 is a bold innovation, melding the worlds of tablets and PCs. Its excellent touch input, an app store, and better performance are compelling, but the changes...
  • Pros: Faster boot times. Two-in-one operating system?both tablet and PC. Excellent touch input. App store for easily finding, installing, and updating apps. New IE10 browser...
  • Cons: Unfamiliar and sometimes unintuitive interface navigation. Few tablet apps compared with competing platforms. Two separate control panels and browsers could cause conf...
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Microsoft Windows Server 8 review

Techworld
20 September 2011
  • Summary: Time will tell, but this could well be the operating system against which everyone else is judged.
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Microsoft Windows 8 preview

Techworld
11 June 2011
  • Summary: What makes the iPad so great is simplicity: A five year old can figure it out (I've tested this theory on my brother's kids).
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Overall 7
7.0

Microsoft Windows Phone 8 review

itproportal.com
30 October 2012
  • Conclusion: I keep wanting to say "Windows Phone has a lot of potential," as if this OS is a version 1.0. But it isn't – it's the third version, and it's been around for two years.
  • Pros: Well designed interface, Excellent Windows/Office compatibility, Top notch social network integration
  • Cons: Selection of apps isn't ideal, Evidence of some bugs, Poor nav options outside of Nokia phones
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Windows 8 review

Macworld UK
28 October 2012
  • Excerpt: While most Apple fans need not worry overtly about Microsoft's Windows operating system (perhaps with the exception of running it in a virtual environment such as
  • Pros: Cons:
  • Cons: Min specs:
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Overall 8
8.0

Microsoft Windows 8 review

itproportal.com
25 October 2012
  • Conclusion: Microsoft needed to do something drastic to head off the "post PC" world. The company – like every tech analyst – saw the writing on the wall that tablets were the way of...
  • Pros: Faster boot times, Some great new tools, Excellent for touch input, Nicely priced upgrade
  • Cons: Unfamiliar and sometimes unintuitive UI, Two separate Control Panels and browsers
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Overall 8
8.0

Microsoft Windows 8

TrustedReviews
25 October 2012
  • Summary: The X86 version of Microsoft's new OS for your PC, laptop/netbook and non-ARM tablet.
  • Pros: Finally plays nice with touch, Has its own style, Maintains desktop environment, Great performance even on old hardware
  • Cons: Needs touch to come into its own, The cohesion is broken when running older software, Its visual style won’t be for everyone, Doesn’t offer as good a desktop experienc...
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