http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Fri, 17 May 2013 21:00:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/run-full-windows-programs-on-windows-rt/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/run-full-windows-programs-on-windows-rt/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 14:00:19 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=162805 So you’ve got a Windows RT tablet of some description cos hey, they’re cheap, and pretty handy for a lot of things. But there’s a few things missing from Windows RT — namely the ability to run even basic x86 programs, or Flash on non-whitelisted websites. We’re here to change that, showing you how to [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/run-full-windows-programs-on-windows-rt/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/now-you-can-run-full-x86-based-windows-apps-on-your-surface-rt/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/now-you-can-run-full-x86-based-windows-apps-on-your-surface-rt/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:00:04 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=144548 One of the biggest drawbacks with the Surface RT is that it can’t run standard Windows apps written for x86 processors. Well, that was until the hacking hive-mind of XDA had a go. Now there’s a new utility for your jailbroken Surface RT that’ll potentially let you run more or less anything. The tool is [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/now-you-can-run-full-x86-based-windows-apps-on-your-surface-rt/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/microsoft-should-have-made-a-laptop/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/microsoft-should-have-made-a-laptop/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:00:50 +0000 Kyle Wagner http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=141283 Whatever you think about Microsoft’s Surface Pro, it’s impossible to deny its beautiful design, and the quality of the the tech behind it. It’s a siren, luring you into an oddly metaphored whirlpool of unsure typing. I’ve been using it for close to two weeks now, and the entire time I couldn’t escape one feeling: [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/microsoft-should-have-made-a-laptop/feed/ 21 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/microsoft-windows-8-sales-on-par-with-windows-7-sales/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/microsoft-windows-8-sales-on-par-with-windows-7-sales/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:30:10 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=140710 Sales of Windows 8 PCs were pretty sluggish to start with, but according to Microsoft, sales of Windows 8 licenses have been decent, at least — they’ve sold the same number of Windows 8 licenses as they’d sold Windows 7 licenses by this point, 90 days in. In an interview with the official Windows blog, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/microsoft-windows-8-sales-on-par-with-windows-7-sales/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/microsofts-got-a-fix-coming-for-borked-surface-rts-but-not-till-february/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/microsofts-got-a-fix-coming-for-borked-surface-rts-but-not-till-february/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:15:22 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=137984 Microsoft has acknowledged that it’s managed to screw up a Windows RT update right-royally on the Surface RT, and it promises it’s going to fix it, as you’d expect. Thing is, you’ll have to hold out till February and update via the, errr, broken Windows Update. Hmm, this might be tricky. [ZDnet] Image credit: Error from Shutterstock]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/microsofts-got-a-fix-coming-for-borked-surface-rts-but-not-till-february/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/is-your-microsoft-surface-rt-borked-a-little-since-the-last-update/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/is-your-microsoft-surface-rt-borked-a-little-since-the-last-update/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:00:58 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=137243 It seems despite knowing precisely what hardware Microsoft’s got to install its stuff on, it’s still not managed to iron out its notoriously buggy Windows update. Surface RT users are complaining the last Windows update has borked their tablets. Any Surface owners having issues? Basically, quite a few people have been complaining that not only [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/is-your-microsoft-surface-rt-borked-a-little-since-the-last-update/feed/ 15 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/surface-rt-jailbreak-gets-the-thumbs-up-from-microsoft/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/surface-rt-jailbreak-gets-the-thumbs-up-from-microsoft/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:45:42 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=135094 Way to go Microsoft; this is the way to keep hackers onside. It’s looked at the Surface jailbreak for Windows RT that lets you run unsigned, homebrew apps, and has declared it safe. Windows RT homebrew is go. In fact, Microsoft went as far to say that: “We continue to appreciate the work of researchers” [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/surface-rt-jailbreak-gets-the-thumbs-up-from-microsoft/feed/ 11 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/speed-up-the-microsoft-surface-rt-with-one-tiny-hack/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/speed-up-the-microsoft-surface-rt-with-one-tiny-hack/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:15:18 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=134897 Now that hackers have sunk their teeth well and truly into the Microsoft Surface RT, loads of things are being probed, including lag. Apparently, with a tiny registry edit, you can speed up the Surface RT no end and eliminate touch lag. Here’s how. Simply put, for some reason Microsoft’s built in some lag or [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/speed-up-the-microsoft-surface-rt-with-one-tiny-hack/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/microsoft-surface-gets-jailbroken-only-to-run-mac-os/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/microsoft-surface-gets-jailbroken-only-to-run-mac-os/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:45:25 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=134555 Microsoft’s iron grip over what can and can’t run on the Surface RT has been broken. Now you can turn the Surface into the iPad we’ve always wanted, running full-blown Mac OS. Well, that’s technically an experimental version of Mac OS called Rhapsody, which was pushed out way back in 1997, running in an emulator. But hell, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/microsoft-surface-gets-jailbroken-only-to-run-mac-os/feed/ 11 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/dropbox-is-finally-on-windows-8-modern-ui/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/dropbox-is-finally-on-windows-8-modern-ui/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:15:18 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=132812 Hooray, the Microsoft Surface just got slightly more useful. A Dropbox app for Windows 8′s Metro modern UI is finally available. If you’ve got true Win 8 on your machine, I’m guessing you’ve already got the x86 Windows Dropbox app, but now you can have two. Awesome? [Windows Store]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/dropbox-is-finally-on-windows-8-modern-ui/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/7-ways-to-save-the-microsoft-surface/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/7-ways-to-save-the-microsoft-surface/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:00:37 +0000 Laptop Magazine http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=127249 It has a more dynamic interface. It has Office inside. It can run two apps on the same screen. And it has a USB port and a built-in kickstand. The iPad has none of these things, and the Microsoft Surface does. So why does Microsoft’s first tablet already seem to be on the ropes? According [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/7-ways-to-save-the-microsoft-surface/feed/ 26 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/microsoft-just-commited-to-supporting-the/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/microsoft-just-commited-to-supporting-the/#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:00:52 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=122910 Microsoft just commited to supporting the Surface and Windows RT for at least four years. Long live the firmware updates! [ZDNet]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/microsoft-just-commited-to-supporting-the/feed/ 12 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/microsoft-surface-display-shoot-out-does-it-beat-the-ipad/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/microsoft-surface-display-shoot-out-does-it-beat-the-ipad/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:00:09 +0000 Raymond Soneira http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=119589 The new Windows tablets, led by Microsoft’s Surface, provide a third major family of tablets for consumers and the computing world. The significance and stakes are enormous because tablets are among the most important developments in computing and consumer products in the last 20 years. Like Google’s Android tablets, the Windows tablets will be made [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/microsoft-surface-display-shoot-out-does-it-beat-the-ipad/feed/ 53 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/ballmer-says-surface-sales-modest-we-say-crap/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/ballmer-says-surface-sales-modest-we-say-crap/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:30:57 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=119485 Ah, poor Microsoft. Despite ad campaigns and pop-up stores galore, it doesn’t look like Microsoft’s first big play into the hardware market has paid off in the first week. Even Steve Ballmer, the master of big optimistic predictions, is calling Surface sales “modest”. To be precise, when asked about sales of the Surface RT by [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/ballmer-says-surface-sales-modest-we-say-crap/feed/ 32 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/microsoft-surface-teardown-a-great-big-puzzle-of-guts/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/microsoft-surface-teardown-a-great-big-puzzle-of-guts/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:00:52 +0000 Leslie Horn http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=115971 iFixit has dissected Microsoft Surface to get a look at its innards and found it only slightly easier to dissemble than many of the latest Apple gadgets, which haven’t exactly been a picnic to take apart. Among the findings are some modular components like a camera, speakers, and a 7.4 V, 31.5 Wh battery that [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/microsoft-surface-teardown-a-great-big-puzzle-of-guts/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/steve-ballmer-hints-at-surface-pricing/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/steve-ballmer-hints-at-surface-pricing/#comments Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:00:19 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=103251 We’re well into tablet season with the release of the new Kindles and the almost certain release of the iPad Mini next month, but Microsoft’s Surface is in the game too, though we know quite little about it. In an interview with the Seattle Times, CEO Steve Ballmer was kind enough to mention the “sweet [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/steve-ballmer-hints-at-surface-pricing/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/how-to-boost-your-sales-give-windows-8-tablets-to-all-your-employees/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/how-to-boost-your-sales-give-windows-8-tablets-to-all-your-employees/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:15:52 +0000 Jon Partridge http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=102902 This sure is awesome, well, if you’re a Microsoft employee anyway. It looks like, if you’re the proud owner of a Microsoft employee ID card, you’ll be getting a free Surface RT tablet for use at work and home, courtesy of your crazy CEO, Steve Ballmer, himself. But wait, there’s more, as you’ll also be [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/how-to-boost-your-sales-give-windows-8-tablets-to-all-your-employees/feed/ 23