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It is a big week for Microsoft. Just yesterday it announced the first major update for Windows 8.1. It also unveiled Windows Phone 8.1 which comes with a plethora of new features, including the much rumored digital personal assistant Cortana. Later this week the company will pull the plug on one of its most popular operating system, Windows XP. There are still a lot of users who continue to use the OS, and they won’t receive any software software after April 8th. To ensure that it does, the UK government has paid Microsoft nearly £5.5 million to keep the updates coming for another year.

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UK Government Pays Millions To Receive Windows XP Support original content from Ubergizmo.

It has been said that when you pay a visit to the Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia, catching a glimpse of the sunrise there is one of those unforgettable, soul searing moments in life. Well, not all of us have the financial means to actually fly all the way there, and even if we do, time does not permit. Google knows this, which is why they have decided to bring Angkor Wat to you via Street View on Google Maps.

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Google Street View Brings You The Angkor Wat original content from Ubergizmo.

The race against time is on, as machines that run on Windows XP would soon be at a disadvantage as no more security updates will be offered for that particular platform, as Microsoft hopes that the world would make the jump to the Windows 8 platform. Having said that, plenty of banks worldwide have ATMs and computers that run on Windows XP, and these have been urged to make the jump already. Resona Holdings of Japan, which happens to be the parent company of a number of banks in the Land of the Rising Sun, has recently upgraded 30,000 of its client terminals from Windows XP to Windows 8.

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Microsoft: Japanese Bank Upgrades 30,000 Terminals To Windows 8 From Windows XP original content from Ubergizmo.

Dell is still going strong in the notebook department, and their latest model happens to be one that would be comfortable in the office as well as out on the battlefield. I am referring to the Dell Latitude 12 Rugged Extreme, where this comes across as the first fully rugged convertible notebook in the industry which will be able to ‘transform’ into a tablet form factor as and when required without missing a beat. As for the Dell Latitude 14 Rugged Extreme notebook, it happens to be one that has been built to perform in the most demanding conditions.

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Dell Latitude 12 Rugged Extreme Does Both Tablet And Notebook Dances original content from Ubergizmo.

As the world switched to Windows 8, one of the most annoying fact or “pain point” as Microsoft would say, was the departure of the Start Menu, which a whole lot of people used as a hub to search for files and get to find apps that use less frequently. The Start Menu button was just “gone”, and boy, user were unhappy to have to hack their way to a Start Menu. After an incomplete attempt at convincing us the Start Button was back (it basically linked to the Metro home screen), and after exhausting all other possibilities, the Windows Start Menu is really and truly back – better than ever.  (more…)

Windows Start Menu Really Coming Back original content from Ubergizmo.