It's IFA season and the prettiest flower has just bloomed. Samsung revealed the ATIV S, and the world looked on at its first Windows 8 Phone. Here's what we know: Windows says "The ATIV S is a superphone that’s equal parts powerhouse and head turner." Superphone? Why not. The specs alone make our brains bleed blood. Samsung pretty much has the market cornered when it comes to Super-AMOLED displays and the 4.8-inch HD screen is no exception. Combine this with 1GB RAM, ...

Nokia and Microsoft are going to be co-hosting an event on 5 September, and based on what the invitations look like, they are going to be unveiling Windows 8 in all its splendour and hopefully a Nokia handset or two to go with it. In fact, the rumor mill has churned out, via The Verge, two potentially new handsets from Nokia. There are code names for both devices, the high-end device called "Phi" and the mid-range device called "Arrow". AT&T will ...

Note: This review has been completely revised for the Windows 8 RTM release. The final, Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows 8 is now available to developers, IT professionals and (soon) businesses with volume licences (or to intrepid testers who don't mind an evaluation version that expires after 90 days and can't be upgraded, downloaded from here). The rest of us will have to wait until October when Windows 8 upgrades, new Windows 8 PCs and Windows RT devices will be released - but ...

Consumers who have purchased their PCs during a promotional period are being offered a cheaper price to upgrade to Windows 8. The offer is limited to one upgrade per PC and up to five per customer. The promotional period is between 2 June 2012 and 31 January 2013, so you still have time to get your upgrade. The cut off point to cash in on this deal is February 28, 2013. The normal price is US$69.99 if you buy ...

During an interview with Bloomberg, David Schmoock, Senior VP of Lenovo's North American division, broadly stated the prices that consumers can expect the company's Windows 8 tablets to be. For the full blown Windows 8 tablets pricing will be between US$600 and US$700. This is more or less right in the middle of the US$200 to US$1000 that the rumors were saying the Surface prices could be. David went on to say that the Windows RT tablets will be priced ...

Skype's hot. Windows 8 is smoking. Metro is on goddamn fire and together it's an heady inferno of pure VoiP sex. This site, has leaked these pictures of the Metro Skype app and predictably, it looks the business. The site even managed to get its sticky hands on the app, saying that it's "relatively solid for performance". It's finger friendly app and apparently the UI is "very fluid". Few loved, or even liked the Windows XP look of Skype. The Metro App ...

Every OS has its own Siri-like service. Windows has Ask Ziggy, and soon Android and iOS users will be able to ask it questions too. Windows is only the beginning, next, the world. It can answer most questions that you throw at it, besides things like, "what's the meaning of the answer '42'?" But now, sources have found that with a generous injection of US$5 million from an undisclosed multinational corporation, it is looking at expanding into Apple and Android territory ...

From the skunkworks at Microsoft comes a fresh rumour of the pricing for the Microsoft Surface. According to Engadget, the pricing and roll out plan was laid out at the Redmond-based giant's recent TechReady15 conference. The planned 26 October launch date isn't exactly surprising -- we've known about it for a fair while now. What is interesting is that the eagerly anticipated tablet is set to ship for US$199. That's Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire money. Which leaves you wondering, ...

Care of this site, we now have the first shots of the Windows 8 retail boxes. The one on the left is standard edition, on the right is Windows 8 Pro The boxes are a visual representation of the Windows 8 Metro UI, which is soon to be renamed something else. Here's what else we love about the boxes. Microsoft's gone and injected the drop-dead gorgeous design of Adobe retail boxes into its artwork. Windows 8 is laser-focused on extreme simplicity, an ...

So as soon as Windows 8 was released to manufacturers, it was released to the internet public for mass consumption. Lo and behold, it's the final version too. Microsoft has already confirmed that development is complete for Windows 8. Widely available on file sharing sites, it is only going to be officially released on October 26th to the public. It's going to released to MSDN and TechNet customers on August 15th, so the leak is really quite early. There are both ...