Best of the Web for Windows Users – 10 - 16 June 2013
This week, Microsoft launched its Office Mobile for iPhone and announced their team up with Best Buy, to open Windows Stores in over 600 locations across the US and Canada. Facebook has decided to follow in the steps of Twitter and introduce hashtags into its status posts. Google will discontinue updates for Chrome Frame as of January 2014. Gizmondo reviewed the Nokia Lumia 925 and thinks it's the Windows Phone 8 device people have been waiting for. Windows Phone Central found the new iOS 7 disturbingly similar in design to Windows Phone 8 and Ed Bott tried to rationalize Microsoft's focus on developing a mobile device friendly Windows 8.1. For links to these stories and more, check out this week's round-up.
Did you know that I was also involved in the writing of a Microsoft Office 2013 book? Yes, we did not write any tutorials about the new Microsoft Office suite but it doesn't mean we don't like it and we can't write books about it. This time, I was one of the 7 co-authors (Yes, that many!) of a book that has more than 1200 pages. It is bigger and heavier than the Bible, but boy, it has plenty of useful content.
Until last year I was using an Android smartphone. At first, I was happy with Android. But the way Android evolved has taken a toll on me and caused lots of frustration over the years. That's why, as of 2012, I decided to give Windows Phone a try. With a few exceptions, I'm happy with the choice I've made and I think Microsoft is onto something good with this platform. After using and testing Windows Phones for more than a year, I believe this is the best platform for affordable smartphones. Here are 6 reasons why:
As promised, we have extracted the winners in our "Spread the Word & Win" competition. After sorting out all the emails, eliminating duplicates, etc - we identified 26 eligible candidates. Let’s find out who won the five ESET Smart Security 6 licenses available.
While reviewing ESET Smart Security 6, we were impressed by its design, usability and performance in securing a Windows computer. Then, we thought: what if we were to reward our readers by organizing a giveaway together with the folks from ESET? We contacted them and they agreed to sponsor us. Today we can reward our readers with one of the best security products on the market. Here’s how you can win a license.
In recent weeks we encountered major issues with our anti-spam system. It malfunctioned very often and, even though it was blocking lots and lots of spam, it was also blocking most of the legitimate comments people were submitting. Thanks to a couple of readers who shared their issues with us, we decided to remove the old anti-spam module and replace it with a new & imaginative captcha system created by Solve Media. We think it is great but we need you to test it and share what you think.