Windows Stories for 2012

Nvidia Display Driver Service Attack Escalates Privileges On Windows Machines 129
VLC For Windows 8 Reaches $65,000 Funding Goal On Kickstarter 210
Mozilla Brings Back Firefox 64-Bit For Windows Nightly Builds 209
30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8 1110
Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 675
Dell Gives Android the Boot, Boots Up More Windows 8 408
Nokia Engineer Shows How To Pirate Windows 8 Metro Apps, Bypass In-app Purchases 268
Samba 4.0 Released: the First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server 343
VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App 252
Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT 308
Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate' 740
Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1% 310
Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops 526
Matthew Garrett Makes Available Secure Bootloader For Linux Distros 274
Why Microsoft's Surface Pro Could Fail 442
New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games 553
NPD Group Analysts Say Windows 8 Sales Sluggish 269
Virus Eats School District's Homework 321
Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year 712
Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware 657
Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License 255
Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux? 951
Windows 8 Sales Below Projections 663
Windows Phone 8 Users Hit Some Snags 391
Sinofsky Dismisses Trying To Take Over Windows Phone, Developers 70
The Empire In Decline? 488
Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? 313
Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Leaves Microsoft 417
PSP Emulator For Android Released 89
Critical Vulnerabilities In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, CryEngine 3 77
Windows 8 Defeats 85% of Malware Detected In the Past 6 Months 299
Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? 361
Bungled Mobile Bet Will Be Ballmer's Swan Song 300
Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads 635
Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory? 388
Microsoft Escapes Kaspersky's Top 10 Vulnerabilities List 112
Microsoft Reportedly Working On Its Own Smartphone 215
ARM, Microsoft Collaborating On 64-bit Windows Version 93
Security Firm VUPEN Claims To Have Hacked Windows 8 and IE10 118
Windows Phone 8 Having Trouble Attracting Developers 268
CodeWeavers Announces Flock the Vote Software Giveaway 97
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Forget the iPad, Surface Is the Tablet People Want 403
Rare Photos: Gnu Crashing a Windows 8 Launch Event 313
Microsoft Reverses 'Mature' Game Ban On Windows 8 87
Trouble For Microsoft Developers With the Windows Store 232
New Trusted HW Standard For Windows 8 To Support Chinese Crypto 87
Android Will Surpass Windows By 2016, Say Gartner Stats 149
Microsoft Releases Windows 8 403
Now That It's Here, Is There a Place For Windows RT? 287
A Look At Competitors to the Surface and iPad 193
Windows 7 Not Getting A Second Service Pack 441
Microsoft Surface Review: a Tale of Two Tablets 183
Microsoft Prepares To Push Kinect Everywhere Windows Is 90
Bill Gates Talks Windows Future, Touch Interfaces 198
Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old? 537
Microsoft Urges Businesses To Get Off XP 727
Salesforce.com's Benioff Disses Windows 8, Oracle 182
Ask Slashdot: Securing a Windows Laptop, For the Windows Newbie? 503
Windows RT vs. Windows 8 Could Burn Consumers 297
Surface RT vs. iPad: a Comparison 357
Why Microsoft Shouldn't Copy Apple's iOS Walled Garden 244
Windows 8: Do I Really Need a Single OS? 344
Steve Ballmer: We're a Devices and Services Company 295
Replacing Windows 8's Missing Start Menu 396
Microsoft Reportedly Launching Its Own Windows Phone Smartphone 190
Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' 343
Apple iPad Mini Could Complicate Things For Windows 8 Tablets 200
Notch Won't Certify Minecraft For Windows 8 303
Did Metro UX Elements Come From a 2009 Demo? 68
Even Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7 436
Windows 8 Has Scaling Issues On High-PPI Displays 171
Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely 269
How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8 187
Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware 245
Designers Criticize Apple's User Interface For OS X and iOS 484
Maybe With Help From Google and Adobe, Microsoft Can Kill Windows XP 405
Leak Hints Windows 8 Tablets May Be Dearer Than Makes Sense 365
AMD's Hondo Chip 'A Windows 8 Product' 229
What Windows Phone 8 Needs To Do To Succeed 246
Intel Says Clover Trail Atom CPU Won't Work With Linux 434
Ubuntu NVIDIA Graphics Driver: Windows Competitive, But Only With KDE 306
School Regrets Swapping Laptops For iPads 504
Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? 460
Microsoft: As of October, 1024-Bit Certs Are the New Minimum 207
Windows Phone 8 SDK — By Appointment Only 153
UPEK Fingerprint Reader Software Puts Windows Passwords At Risk 122
First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 396
Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 249
Windows 7 Overtakes XP, OSX Struggles To Beat Vista 540
Leak Shows What Could Be Nokia's New Windows Phone 8 Devices 110
Ask Slashdot: What Should a Unix Fan Look For In a Windows Expert? 454
Windows 8 Is 'a Work of Art.' But It's No Linux 371
Samsung Unveils Windows Phone 8 Device and Android-Based Camera 179
Ask Slashdot: Rescuing a PC That's Been Hit By Scammers? 320
Microsoft Denies Windows 8 App Spying Via SmartScreen 198
Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install 489
Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years 378
Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP 504
Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden 404
Windows 8 Gets Personal Use License For Homebuilt PCs 330
Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking 1030
Is Windows 8 Microsoft's Riskiest Bet? 362
Windows 8 RTM Benchmarked 398
You Can't Bypass the UI Formerly Known As Metro On Windows 8 444
CowboyNeal Weighs In On the Windows 8 "Metro" GUI 671
Microsoft Drops 'Metro' Name For Windows 8 UI 356
Windows 8 Is Ready 558
Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8? 345
Microsoft Releases Batch of Windows 8 Input Devices 156
Microsoft Surface Release Date Confirmed 175
Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? 547
Ask Slashdot: the Best Linux Setup To Transition Windows Users? 448
Ex-Sun Employees Are Taking Java To iOS 115
Malware Strikes Apple iOS App Store Again 94
Windows 8 Graphics: Microsoft Has Hardware-Accelerated Everything 563
Gartner Analyst Retracts "Windows 8 Is Bad" Claim 306
Microsoft Lays Out Money-Making Options For Windows Store Developers 85
Windows 8 Release Date: October 26th 172
Sale of IPv4 Addresses Hindering IPv6 Adoption 214
Richard Stallman Speaks About UEFI 549
EU Investigating Microsoft Over IE Bundling Again 299
It Costs $450 In Marketing To Make Someone Buy a $49 Nokia Lumia 363
Windows 8 Mail Leaves Users Pining For the Desktop — or Even Their Phones 308
Microsoft Kills Windows Gadgets Via Security Update 161
Web Exploit Found That Customizes Attack For Windows, Mac, and Linux 204
Microsoft: Windows 8 To RTM In August 343
Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised" 488
Bill Gates: the Traditional PC Is Changing 552
Choosing the Right Security Tools To Protect VMs 44
Microsoft To Bring Windows 8 Marketplace In 180 Countries 69
Full Upgrades To Windows 8 Only From Windows 7? 222
HP Kills ARM-based Windows Tablet, Likely Thanks To Microsoft Surface 192
Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button 857
Microsoft Trying To Woo Businesses To Windows 8 442
Witness Ridicules 'Hands-On' Reviews of Surface 206
Vulnerable SAP Deployments Make Prime Attack Targets 72
Microsoft Phasing Out Office Starter Edition 132
Will Microsoft Extend Surface Model And Manufacture Windows Phones? 118
Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled 414
Windows 8: .NET Versus HTML5 Metro App Development 179
Microsoft To Sell Its Own Windows RT Tablet 288
US-CERT Discloses Security Flaw In 64-Bit Intel Chips 181
Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked 484
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? 1027
Adjusting Your PC Set-Up To Cope With Sudden Sight Loss 47
Windows RT Will Cost OEMs Over Twice As Much as Windows 7 310
Thunderbolt On Windows: Hardware and Performance Explored 177
NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop 518
Splashtop Drops Windows 8 Metro Testbed Onto Android 36
Which Fading Smartphone Company Is More Valuable To Microsoft, RIM Or Nokia? 222
Microsoft Relents On Metro-Only Visual Studio Express 228
AMD/ATI Video Drivers: Unsafe At Any Speed 261
Flame Malware Hijacks Windows Update 268
Asus Announces x86 Transformer 203
Humble Indie Bundle V Released 145
Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download 363
Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions 809
Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. 470
Can Windows 8 Succeed In a Cloud-Based World? 213
Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8 462
MS Will Remove OEM 'Crapware' For $99 474
Aero Glass UI No More On Windows 8 426
Avira Premium Anti-Virus Bug Disables Windows Machines 151
Windows RT Browser Restrictions Draw Antitrust Attention 375
The 30 Best Features of Windows 470
Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model 219
Microsoft Blocks 3d-Party Browsers In Windows RT, Says Mozilla Counsel 329
Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files? 247
Ask Slashdot: All-In-One PC For Kitchen? 156
Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack 734
Nokia Faces Class-Action Suit Over Windows Phone Deal 257
Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone 362
One In Five Macs Holds Malware — For Windows 285
Skype Finally Arrives On Microsoft Phones 151
Did Microsoft Simply Run Out of Time On Windows RT? 305
The Three Flavors of Windows 8 500
How Windows FreeCell Gave Rise To Online Crowdsourcing 93
End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare 646
Nokia 900 Being Given Away Due To Software Glitch 206
Windows Vista Enters Extended Support 330
Munich Has Saved €4M So Far After Switch To Linux 370
Windows 8 and Screen Resolution: WXGA Still Most Popular 382
Ask Slashdot: Which Multiple Desktop Tool For Windows 7? 359
Microsoft Demos Metro UI For Enterprise Apps 116
Tom's Hardware Tests and Reviews Fedora 16 and Gnome 3 101
CEO of TuCloud Dares Microsoft To Sue His New Company 109
RDP Proof-of-Concept Exploit Triggers Blue Screen of Death 128
Microsoft: RDP Vulnerability Should Be Patched Immediately 126
Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? 630
The Windows 8 Power Struggle: Metro Vs Desktop 590
Is Onlive Pirating Windows and Will It Cost Them? 225
'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie 399
For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu 370
Wine 1.4 Released 168
Now in English: VALO-CD Open Source Software Collection 41
Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview 500
Microsoft Killing Off Zune, Windows Live Brands? 262
A Look At Microsoft's 'Mini Internet' For Testing IE 241
Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents 642
Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM 372
ReactOS 0.3.14 Released With Improved Networking Stack 176
Lenovo Ordered To Refund 'Microsoft Tax' 475
Windows Phone 8 Detailed, Uses Windows 8 Kernel 267
Microsoft Releases Kinect For Windows 130
Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles 435
Some Windows 8 Laptops May Come With Built-In Kinect Sensors 140
Microsoft Announces ReFS, a New Filesystem For Windows 8 459
Microsoft Taking Aggressive Steps Against Linux On ARM 675
Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server 780
Kinect For Windows Releasing On February 1 155
Microsoft Scraps 'Where's My Phone Update?' Site 162
Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh 441
What's Keeping You On XP? 879
Windows Phone Homebrew Hits a Snag 185