Category Archives: Computer – general

AI Photo Interpreter

Posted on April 14, 2016 by

The computers are watching us! Drum roll please! Now for the latest from Microsoft Cognitive Services: CaptionBot – an online AI (artificial intelligence) thingie that looks at photos and tells what it sees – sort of supplying a caption for … Continue reading →

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Windows 8.1 – Start button

Posted on June 28, 2013 by

The Start button returns in Windows 8.1 With the Windows 8.1 Preview Microsoft returns the Start button – sort of. Down in the lower left corner, on the taskbar, is the new Windows logo. It does not have the nice … Continue reading →

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Installing Windows 8.1 Preview in a VMware Player virtual machine

Posted on June 27, 2013 by

Windows 8.1 Preview Microsoft has released Windows 8.1 Preview. Like other “previews”, this is prerelease software and is not intended as a normal upgrade. In fact, there are serious disadvantages to installing this preview in a regular Windows 8 PC: … Continue reading →

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Updating drivers for Windows 8

Posted on December 13, 2012 by

Windows 8 brings with it a set of drivers that might not provide the best performance. I had that happen when I installed Windows 8 on an ancient HP laptop. The native Windows 8 driver could not set the screen … Continue reading →

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VMware Player 5 for Windows 8

Posted on August 24, 2012 by

Run Windows 8 on new VMware Player 5 VMware has released a new version of VMware Player with full Windows 8 support. Installing Windows 8 in a VMware Player virtual machine is now straightforward and quick. This version even received … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 to install from Web and run on Windows XP hardware

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

When the Developer Preview of Windows 8 was released a while back I installed it on a number of machines. One of my tests was to perform an upgrade on a modest machine with Windows 7 Home Basic. The upgrade … Continue reading →

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