Windows 8
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Surface Pro, Day 11: Using Microsoft Office on a Surface Pro
30 Days with Surface Pro: Day 11 Day 11 of the 30 Days with Surface Pro journey focuses on using Microsoft Office on the tablet. One of the best things about using a Windows tablet–as opposed to an iPad, Kindle Fire, or any other tablet–is that it has Microsoft Office. A Surface RT has Office,…
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Surface Pro, Day 10: Multitasking on the Surface Pro
30 Days with Surface Pro: Day 10 Most of the time that I am using just about any device–PC, tablet, or smartphone–I am multitasking. I may be researching information in a Web browser while writing a report in Microsoft Word, or listening to music while reading a book in the Kindle app. For Day 10…
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Surface Pro, Day 9: A closer look at the default apps
30 Days with Surface Pro: Day 9 Back on Day 6 of the 30 Days with Surface Pro series I spent some time looking at the Windows Store, and exploring the apps available for Windows 8. Today, I’m going to step back and look more closely at the apps that are installed by default–specifically Calendar,…
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Surface Pro, Day 8: Configuring the Start screen
30 Days with Surface Pro: Day 8 For today’s 30 Days with Surface Pro adventure, I’m going to dive into the Start screen–the Windows 8 Modern / Metro interface that Windows 8 boots into by default. I need to customize it to look the way I want it to look. First things first, I want…
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Surface Pro, Day 7: Installing software
30 Days with Surface Pro: Day 7 I spent Day 6 of the 30 Days with Surface Pro series exploring the pros and cons of the Windows Store. On a Surface RT (or other device running Windows RT) the Windows Store is the only option for finding and installing new software. With a Surface Pro…
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Surface Pro, Day 6: Good, bad, and ugly of Windows 8 Store
30 Days with Surface Pro: Day 6 Today I’m going to take a look at the Windows Store–the online repository of apps designed for Windows 8. Microsoft had an ambitious goal of hitting 100,000 apps in the first 90 days. That didn’t happen. In fact, the Windows Store just recently passed 40,000 apps. Only 40,000?…