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Windows 10 Close to a Quarter of the Market

by Bob Raikes

The NetMarketshare report from Net Applications said that in November, Windows 10 had 23.72% of the market (up 1.13% on October) but is still a long way behind Windows 7 which has 47.17% of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 23 - Issue 48| Windows

Bestseller Affinity Designer comes to Windows

by Bob Raikes

A popular programme on Macs, Affinity Designer, from UK company Serif Software, has now been made available on Windows. The publishers claim that Affinity is the best selling professional design and graphics app for …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Software| Vol 23 - Issue 45| Windows

DisplayLink Integrated into Windows Core

by Bob Raikes

DisplayLink, which has technology for graphic display over USB, said that it has a version of its software that works with Windows 10th Anniversary Upgrade and it said that the software is integrated with …

Tags:DisplayLink| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USB Monitors| Vol 23 - Issue 39| Windows

Lenovo Rejects Windows Phone Option

by Bob Raikes

At the Canalys Channels Forum event in Barcelona, Gianfranco Lanci of Lenovo has ruled out the possibility that Lenovo would ever make a Windows OS smartphone. Lanci, who is great to listen to as …

Tags:Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 39| Windows

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EOL for Windows

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 OEM edition will become “end of line” (EOL) at the end of October and will no longer be available to system builders to install on new PCs. The company would like …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38| Windows

HP Cuts Android for Windows

by Tom Allen

VP Michael Park says that HP wants to provide a high-margin, premium product for office workers with its Elite X3 smartphone.HP Inc. is cutting its losses in the Android space in favour of Windows …

Tags:Android| HP Inc| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 32| Windows

Envelop VR Introduces Envelop for Windows

by Isaac Oburu

Envelop VR, a software company enabling new ways to use virtual reality as a platform to work, create and play, introduces their initial product, Envelop™ for Windows®, the only fully immersive computing platform that …

Tags:Virtual Reality| Windows

E Fun is Ready for Term Time

by Tom Allen

E Fun has designed its new convertible tablet for the back-to-school season. The Nextbook Flex 11A runs Windows 10 on a quad-core Intel Atom processor, with Microsoft Office Mobile. Control is possible through the …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Education| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 30| Windows

Stress Detectors and Big Data

by Bob Raikes

Over recent years, computing systems have included more and more sensors. However, I’ve long joked that every computer contains a “stress detector” that kicks into operation when the user is stressed. Printers, of course, …

Tags:Digital Signage| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 26| Windows

Brands Shorten Lifecycles as Smartphone Slowdown Continue

by Tom Allen

Smartphone shipments will rise 3.1% YoY in 2016: a significant slowdown from the 10.5% growth seen in 2015, and 27.8% in 2014. The forecast is 2.6 percentage points lower than IDC’s previous prediction, and …

Tags:Android| IDC| iOS (Apple)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 21| Windows| Worldwide