Microsoft Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. The first OS was introduced on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It came to dominate the world’s personal computer (PC) market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984.
This graphics glitch is a known bug in Firefox running on Windows 8. It appears to manifest only on machines that run on nVidia graphics cards and it is caused by the browser using hardware acceleration. The fix is simple – disable hardware acceleration from your browser’s settings menu. The strange colors will be gone…
So today, while (by mistake) attempting to upgrade my Windows 7 to Windows 8 I ran into a compatibility check with 6 errors including one that states: Secure Boot isn’t compatible with your PC At first it gave me the creeps thinking that I won’t be able to install Windows 8 although the Consumer Preview…
To get you started you will need an ISO image of Windows 8 and also the Windows 7 USB / DVD Donwload Tool which will help you put that image on the USB stick. You can download both of them by clicking their respective images below. Install the Windows 7 USb Tool after download finishes….
Are you a Silverlight / WPF developer? Want to start developing for Windows 8 as well? If that’s the case, this upcoming SilverlightShow webinar is guaranteed to give you a jump start. The webinar will teach you how to use your Silverlight / WPF experience to build amazing Windows 8 apps by presenting the similarities…