Apr 01
While some might call this to be an April Fool’s prank, it apparently isn’t as the person who leaked out what seems to be an update to the Skype client which boasted of a new chat UI for the hugely popular VoIP program. The tipster known as “Marvin” claimed that he was absolutely clueless as to how he received the update, but at the end of the day, the chat interface looks extremely different from what he was used to. Check out the screenshot above and draw your own conclusions – it shows off the Modern UI that is normally found in the Windows 8 version of Skype.
Skype Could Feature New Chat UI For Windows Desktop original content from Ubergizmo. 
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When most people think of tablets, there is a good chance that their minds run to iOS or Android. This is understandable as both Apple and Android OEMs have put out pretty good tablets in the past, thus overshadowing Microsoft’s efforts at attempting to break into the tablet market with their own offerings as well.
There are a lot of people that have become all too familiar with Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA). Microsoft will of course sell you a legal version of Windows if you are running a pirated copy…and now they aren’t forcing you to reformat your computer to fix the issue.
Windows Vista RC1 is still doing great for me on each machine that I have it installed on. The first machine that I put it on was my desktop computer that was running Vista Pre-RC1 and I decided to perform an upgrade instead of a fresh install. After the 3-hour upgrade had finished I was able to use Vista RC1 completely. I noticed no issues and was pleasantly surprised. However, because of how long it took to perform the upgrade I chose to do clean installs on my other machines.
