Sentences with phrase «desktop os»

Authored and executed functional and integration test cases across a variety of desktop os / browser

The closer Microsoft gets to unveiling Windows 9 and releasing its first Technical Preview of its next major desktop OS update, the more leaks revealing Windows 9 features hit the web.

Windows 9 Preview is expected to arrive in late September, bringing a couple of new features and improvements to the desktop OS.

Today, Windows is just a boring old desktop OS to most people who use it, while the excitement lies on their smartphones.

Being the most popular desktop OS on the planet has its advantages.

Microsoft has rolled out a fresh preview version of Windows 10 that makes some interesting changes on the privacy front ahead of the next big update of the desktop OS, which could be imminent given the lack of issues cited with this Redstone 4 build.

Thanks to the flexibility of Android, we can cram the world's most prevalent «mobile» OS alongside the world's most popular desktop OS.

The Surface Pro was designed to offer users the full Windows 8 desktop OS in a slim and light form factor and the Surface RT powered by Windows RT was billed as an iOS and Android tablet killer.

The voice - powered personal assistant could become a major part of Microsoft's next major desktop OS launch.

Even with a 9.7 - inch display, however, we struggle to find this a useful option - it quickly becomes a fiddly experience, because you don't have quite the control that you might on a fully featured desktop OS.

Next week, Microsoft is expected to add another cumulative patch to the Windows 10 desktop OS according to sources familiar with the matter.

Insider Fast Ring update have diverged lately with the desktop OS being branched to Redstone (RS1) for early testing by users, whereas Mobile is still in the critical patch phase to improve general reliability before going to the next chapter of Windows 10 Mobile Redstone for 2016.

The personal assistant is coming to Microsoft's desktop OS and will offer consumers a new way to interact with not only apps installed by the web too.

Microsoft has been keeping their mobile and desktop OS with the same build numbers for a few weeks now.

Google is experimenting with a new version of its desktop OS, and parts of the interface looks completely different.

tvOS, Apple's 4th - generation Apple TV operating system, and macOS, Apple's desktop OS previously known as OS X El Capitan, also received minor software upgrades, though Siri integration and the ability to automatically unlock a Mac via the Apple Watch are also key new features included in the roll out.

While Windows 8 is still the prevalent desktop OS, Microsoft has had to rely on a separate OS altogether for mobile.

That's on the low side if you're comparing with Android or iOS tablets, though admittedly they're not running a full desktop OS.

Most of the apps and icons still have a weird early - 2000s desktop OS look to them, regardless of which theme you choose.

Can Windows 10 bring seamless updates that one or two years from now will make it the best, most polished desktop OS available, and still be called Windows 10?

Get even more from your Android device by running a desktop OS!

I think one of the reasons Microsoft is floundering on tablets and in mobile is because they insist on cramming a full fledged desktop OS into devices that need light and simple.

For Google - powered laptops, it represents a possible path from Chrome OS — a capable web browser that can also run phone apps — to a first - class desktop OS to rival macOS and Windows.

The slow evolution of Chrome OS from a browser - based desktop OS to a more Android - like touch - optimized OS has been well documented.

The Surface Pro 4 only ran the Peacekeeper test for about six and a half hours before calling it quits, although it's powering a much larger display and a desktop OS.

The Surface run desktop OS and uses an Intel processor while the iPad Pro is just a tablet.

A user managed to install this classic desktop OS on his Android Wear smartwatch.

Whether you availed Microsoft's free Windows 10 upgrade offer, which by the way was available only till July 29th of 2016, or got a new license for your PC off retail, online, or via subscription - based sources like Microsoft's own MSDN service and the likes, here's what you need to know about Windows 10 product keys and the full process involved in activating a machine on Microsoft's latest desktop OS.

Yosemite is said to have reached the fastest adoption rate of any desktop OS ever, with 55 percent of active Mac users using it.

Windows PC owners may also like the idea of recreating (much of) their desktop OS experience using the new phones» Continuum feature.

This is a transition we've watched happen slowly, as Google continues to added features to ChromeOS that blur the lines of what started out as a very minimalist desktop OS.

Which is interesting as previous reports have suggested that the company is working on a hybrid operating system of sorts for the iPad Pro, which will have some features borrowed from the desktop OS X.

Although it might seem just as ridiculous as loading an actual desktop OS onto an Android Wear smartwatch, playing video games on your Samsung Gear Live, Moto 360 or LG G Watch through emulators is certainly more useful, and for that matter functional.

The company also announced some desktop OS features for the iPad, and revealed its plans to become an augmented reality powerhouse.

Microsoft's latest major upgrade to its desktop OS brings with it plenty of changes, from new visual styles to the dawn of Windows Mixed Reality, and...

Interestingly, Google touted the OS as immune to the sort of slowdowns you get over weeks and months with a desktop OS like Windows, but we noticed slowdowns over a matter of minutes and hours.»

But comparing an iPad as a bona - fide replacement to a similar device running a full desktop OS is just bad comedy and should be avoided.

Fullscreen apps on desktops are just waste of space and users will solve this by not using metro apps if possible and of course they will complain about Window 8, even if it is good desktop OS.

We've already taken a closer look at Apple's latest desktop OS, so it's high time we dug a little deeper into what it's like using an early version of iOS 9.

Ignore the desktop OS foundation; the Windows 8 app is much closer to the touchscreen - oriented mobile version with its oversized search box, service shortcuts, an emphasis on voice recognition and finger - friendly instant previews of the results.

«Fully baked» (okay, that one's a joke), the latest version of the desktop OS focuses largely on perfecting everything you loved about last year's first Sierra iteration.

... But it's still a tough decision to move away from Windows for a desktop OS.

The sole exception thus far being the Microsoft Surface line which has had improving sales year - over-year, but that's different since it's running a full fledged desktop OS.

Google has no desktop OS too protect.

One ported a desktop OS to a limited form factor; the other built an OS from the ground up designed to highlight the form factor's strengths.

I am also a Linux user, but I no longer use it as a desktop OS.

It's a savvy gambit that frees up the license to the full - fledged, touch - friendly desktop OS, helping low - end Windows tablets better compete with the spate of affordable Android tablets.

This wallet - sized phone runs Windows 8 Pro operating system, which already knows a desktop OS.

A desktop OS isn't made for a touch tablet just in the way that a phone OS isn't made for a touch tablet.

Ubuntu is probably the closest ARM compatible desktop OS to Windows» or Mac OS» user friendliness.